[Sorry for the repost, corrected wiki link below...] On 2/6/2020 5:40 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Actually, in the past we always have counted every kind of comment (vote yes / no and abstain) as part of the total, which indeed led to the situation that an (explicit) abstention effectively counted like a no-vote. Are we going to change this now? If yes, it should be documented (and maybe also voted upon).
That *is* how it's currently documented -- and if abstain is intended to be counted equivalent to no, then the proposal documentation should change to reflect this. The current description of "approved" on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process is: > A rule of thumb for enough support is 8 unanimous approval votes or at least 10 votes with more than 74 % approval The current description of "abstain" on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Proposed_feature_voting is: > If you don't want to vote but have comments Someone who chooses "abstain" according to this template presumably believes they are merely commenting, *not* voting. If they wanted their vote to count as the equivalent to "no," they'd vote "no"... right? Maybe the "abstain" option should be removed altogether. But in the meantime it seems irregular to tally votes according to different rules than those that were documented when the vote occurred. Jason
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