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FYI, the person you're quoting is talking about votes, not the list in 
general.

On 2018-08-08 02:33, kevin wrote:
> Yeah, no.  Don't think that's a really good assertion on an
> international collaboration to make English some formal language of
> openNIC.  I really don't mind if conversations go on on this list in
> any language one so chooses.  Not exactly sure why that is so
> important.  If I don't understand, then either I don't need to, or
> maybe I should take some time to learn another language.
>
> Anyhow, the guys were obviously spoiling their ballots.
>
> Also, regarding the idea of not allowing "free form" ballots.  As a
> voter, it is completely up to a voter to spoil a ballot.  That is
> certainly one of the "rights" the democratic systems are supposed to
> uphold. How they spoil the ballot is up to them, not a check box that
> says "spoil".
>
> I think there's way too much nudging of the "decomocracy" of openNIC to
> corral members to a very, very small box.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 14:50 -0400, 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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