On 10-Aug-07, at 7:26 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
I wanted to add my agreement with a couple of the statements made on
this topic.
First of all, I agree with Gary, I don't think the benefit of
releasing
the tallies outweighs the harmful side effects.
I'm just catching up on this thread, I didn't realise it was such a
hot topic. I'm all for debate about how to improve our processes,
but I don't like the idea of changing a process after the fact.
I also agreed with the idea of not releasing a full ordered list with
vote tallies. I didn't even provide the top 5 in order of rank,
instead did it in alphabetical order. Otherwise, all you would get
is a relative ordering of people versus other people. Did someone
vote more for one person because of their geographical location? Or
because there were better known or better qualified? Or because they
thought they had the best chance of winning? Or did they like
everyone but chose them randomly?
You could infer a reason for the order, but it would be pure
speculation without knowing from every voter what they were
thinking. So, in the end, I believe that the number of votes is
meaningless except to appease curiosity. If we eventually move to an
online system for managing elections then I'm sure the topic will
come up again, as will the questions of giving multiple votes to one
nominee or for voting for yourself. All good issue worthy of debate,
in my opinion.
Perhaps an interesting approach at the next election
would be to have the nominees answer a set of questions selected from
the charter members. We could post each nominee's answer to the
questions on the wiki.
I have thought about this too and agree. We could even open this up
to receive ideas from the membership at large, then boil it down to a
reasonable set.
I had hoped there would be more discussion/debate about the
candidates before the voting started - there was barely any - but
having a selected set of required questions would help to serve the
same purpose next time.
Sincerely,
Tyler
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