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[Al Beano <albino AT autistici.org>]

This is true, but it could also result in situations in which the majority is 
ignored. 

Naturally, in any kind of community, there will be people who favour change 
for better or for worse, and people who prefer to retain an existing 
(working) system — setting up a voting system which favours the current setup 
over a new, proposed one begins to seem somewhat undemocratic. 

On 27 July 2017 05:45:27 BST, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:
>Specifically for the TLD votes, not for anything else.  The reasoning 
>was that a TLD is a pretty big deal, and we should expect a strong 
>support behind any such additions.  Having a new TLD pass by a single 
>vote does not show a strong interest by the community and probably
>means 
>the charter needs to be refined.
>
>And honestly, if an idea is good then there's usually strong support 
>behind it.  If half the group is on the fence or just doesn't like the 
>idea, then something is wrong and it needs to be reconsidered.
>
>
>On 07/26/2017 12:45 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
>> That and why do we need a 2/3 majority for such a small community of
>people? That could make things complicated, and possibly result in a
>lot of good ideas (and good people) being thrown out.
>>
>> --
>>
>> -Dan Q
>>
>> On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 04:51:39 +0000, Jonah Aragon
><jonaharagon AT gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd say the voting period should be longer than 7 days, maybe 14
>minimum,
>>> since many people don't check the list too often and we want to make
>sure
>>> we get as many people as possible to vote on major things like this.
>>>
>>>
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