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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

Still voting NO in IV, since I do see Usenet-style long-term flame wars 
likely, even with your clarification.

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-Dan Q

On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 19:28:15 -0500, Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net> wrote:

> I won’t respond to your other two no votes, they’re valid opinions I don’t 
> necessarily agree with, but that’s the point of voting. I think you 
> misunderstood something with Section IV though so I just want to clear that 
> up...
> 
> > On Nov 3, 2017, at 21:00, Daniel Quintiliani <danq AT runbox.com> wrote:
> > 
> > IV: NO (Discussion should not be banned during the voting period, so long 
> > as it's in a separate thread from the voting thread. In fact that was my 
> > goof over the .libre issue I complain about, as my proposal to merge 
> > .free into .null due to the ".libre domains are not allowed to be libre" 
> > issue was during the voting thread - this should have been in a separate 
> > discussion thread. And what happens if someone does this anyway, does the 
> > voting start over? Does this go on for months because of someone has to 
> > have the last word? Usenet anyone?)
> 
> Discussion isn’t banned during the voting period. The only thing this is 
> placing time limits on is when a voting thread can begin. Basically, a 
> voting thread can’t be started within 7 days of the discussion. This is 
> obvious and I think we’ve all been following it anyways. Additionally, the 
> voting period cannot be started until 1 day has passed following the last 
> reply to the discussion. This does not prevent discussion during the vote, 
> and doesn’t prevent the vote if more discussion is had following the start 
> of the vote. If we follow a simple timeline:
> 
> 1. Discussion thread begins. 
> *7 days pass*
> 2. Posts are made to the discussion, furthering the time limit. 
> *1 day passes following that last reply*
> 3. Voting thread starts
> 4. More discussion is posted
> 
> At this point in the time period the vote will continue uninterrupted, 
> having started roughly 8 days after the initial discussion. Just because 
> more posts were made following the beginning of that thread doesn’t affect 
> the vote in any way. 
> 
> Hope that’s at least somewhat clear. 
> 
> Jonah 
> 
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