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[Rouben <rouben AT rouben.net>]

Here are my $0.02 on the topic...

I think that voting is normally confidential (secret ballot) mainly to ensure that voters can't be influenced into voting differently from how they truly wish to vote. For example, say your close friend proposes a vote, and votes "yes", hoping everyone else, including you, would support them. You, however, feel like it's a bad idea and want to vote "no", however, in order not to upset your friend and compromise your friendship, you end up voting "yes".

On the other hand, given the nature of OpenNIC (we're all about openness and transparency, no?), and your point about following experienced users, I think we need to have a larger discussion on this topic. I don't think that's necessarily a good idea: if you are not sure how to vote, either educate yourself on the topic and vote to the best of your knowledge, or don't vote at all (voting is not mandatory). In fact if you are not adequately prepared, not voting is better than blindly voting the same way as OpenNIC "elders" just because they're more experienced.

Having said all this, as things stand now, mailing list voting is obviously not confidential, so from a formality perspective, I think Fusl is actually proposing a change on OpenNIC voting protocol, not merely how software is configured. So I think it would be best to discuss and vote (formally, using the ML for now) on whether OpenNIC voting should be secret ballot or completely open, like a forum or social media poll. If that's not desired at all, we should emulate the voting process as closely as possible to its current form (i.e. keep it completely open and public, no secret ballot).

Rouben

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Jack Ternan <jackist AT email.com> wrote:

I disagree with this suggestion.  I like to see the opinions of more experienced OpenNIC members and, if those members are in agreement, I tend to vote the same way as them.

 

Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 at 2:00 AM
From: Fusl <opennic AT lists.dedilink.eu>
To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Voting platform / DokuWiki plugin implementation - request for comments: hiding vote results until the voting ends

One opinion I have regarding the current design: It shouldn't be possible to see what other users voted on until after the voting ends. This should make it impossible for users to get distracted by other users opinions.

While the voting is ongoing, users see an interface similar to this:

Voting title goes here
[ ] Choice A
[*] Choice B
[ ] Choice C
Note: Voting results and votes will be published when the voting ends and votes can not be undone so choose wisely! This voting ends in x {weeks/days/hours/minutes/seconds}.

Once the voting ends, the interface changes to:

Results for Voting title goes here
Choice A | Choice B | Choice C
20% | 70% | 10%
asdf | fusl | someone
otheruser | test |
| fdsa |
| xxxx |
| catmeows |
| whatdoes |
| thefoxsay |


Please let me know what you think about this idea.

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