On Fri, 8 May 2020 08:43:27 -0400, Jarek Piórkowski <ja...@piorkowski.ca> wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 02:27, s8evq <s8e...@runbox.com> wrote: > > > > Of the 8 opposing votes, only 1 has made the effort to comment beforehand > > on the talk page. The 7 others just came in and voted no, without any > > discussion beforehand. That doesn't seem correct. It should not be possible > > to be suddenly faced with this fait accompli. > > Hm, I'm not seeing that requirement on > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process#Voting > > In fact all the opposing votes made comments as to why they oppose it. > You may disagree with their reasons but that doesn't make them > invalid.
Sure. You're totally right. > How much discussion do you think should be necessary before voting "I > oppose, because I think using sub-tags is better"? If someone thinks > that, they think that. A discussion would just print the arguments > back and forth. If these arguments were given beforehand, perhaps the proposal could have changed, or opinions could have been changed? I hardly have any experience in proposals and the voting system. But I've seen 3 proposal so far, where I know the author doesn't want to bring it to vote, fearing the proposal would be rejected. The rationale behind it: status Rejected is worse than having the proposal in the "Draft" state forever. And then some people in this very thread suggest to just ignore a rejection and start using it anyway. What's the use of the whole voting system then? Why even bother writing a proposal in the first place? I'll just do whatever. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging