On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:51 AM Lukas Ruzicka <lruzi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >> >The VOTE must be only +1 or -1. Indecisive people do not need to put >> that down, they just can do nothing. >> >> Haha. In defense of 0, there is a long history of "abstain" votes. There >> may be a proposal that someone doesn't support, but also doesn't want to >> stand in the way of progression, i.e. it's better to move forward with >> something they don't fully like, than it is to be a stick in the mud. >> >> >> > Well, I don't really see a difference between "voting 0" and "doing > nothing". Kamil's idea to use it to see if people have or have not voted > yet makes some sense to me. > > I agree that it is better to move forward somehow, but I think that voting > 0 is exactly the way to get stuck in the mud, as you are saying. In my > opinion, if I want to move things forward, they way to go is to vote +1 (or > -1) even if I am not fully convinced. It is necessary to make a decision. > Voting 0, in my world, means that I absolutely do not know which way I want > to support and therefore doing nothing is the same as voting 0. > Abstain is useful if there are conflicts of interest, or to indicate no preference either way, or as a result of confusion. I chock up more than one abstain vote as an indicator the proposal isn't persuasive enough. Indeed if everyone votes to abstain, that means the vote was premature/ill advised and that the arguments in favor and against must be improved, rather than literally do nothing. -- Chris Murphy
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