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Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] Require voting in English


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  • From: "Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>
  • To: "discuss" <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] Require voting in English
  • Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 20:57:17 -0400 (EDT)

That's Fusl's upcoming proposal. But proposals still need to be in English.

--

-Dan Q


On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 20:50:15 -0400, Verax <verax AT 8chan.co> wrote:

> These people troll in every vote thread, they'll just make stupid votes
> in english.
>
> A better solution IMO is to move the voting to somewhere where free-form
> votes are not allowed.
>
> --Verax
>
> Rouben wrote:
> > I think “potato salad” qualifies as a spoiled ballot. :)
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 16:13 Daniel Quintiliani <danq AT runbox.com> wrote:
> >
> >> One of them asked if the word was Austrian or German. Google Translate
> >> does not offer an option for Austrian, and one of the votes was German
> >> for
> >> "potato salad"
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> -Dan Q
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:55:18 +0000, gp AT gparent.net wrote:
> >>
> >>> Regardless if the people voting in other languages were being silly or
> >>> not, I think it would be a good idea.
> >>>
> >>> On 2018-08-07 18:50, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> A number of individuals are voting on proposals in other languages
> >>>> (Austrian? German?). Not everyone can speak these languages, and I've
> >>>> never seen languages other than English spoken on the list. I don't
> >>>> know how to process these votes, though I'm hoping someone else can
> >>>> before time runs out (or until someone translates them for Jonah and
> >>>> I). But in the future, unless the demographics in this shift into
> >>>> speakers of another language, who can reverse saide policy, we should
> >>>> require voting in English, with votes in other languages considered
> >>>> invalid.
> >>>>
> >>>> What do you think?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>>
> >>>> -Dan Q
> >>>>
> >>>>
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