Re: Open voting?
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kreinovich, Vladik <vladik@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> May I propose a compromise solution: when the vote is a simple YES or a
> simple NO we can do it sending emails to you personally.
Hidden voting is a very serious problem. There is no need to hide
them. We just need to get them off of the discussion list.
>
> If the NO vote contains important conditions under which it can switched
> to a YES, this may still be a good idea to vote publicly -- this may
> influence others to change their absolute NO to a justified NO and thus,
> speed up convergence to a consensus or at least some reasonable
> agreed-upon document.
That would not be acceptable. If the author of the vote message sent
it privately it would not be appropriate for someone else to decide
that the message should have been public.
Lee Winter
NP Engineering
Nashua, New Hampshire
P.S. Please do not top post. -- L.