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[Philipp Schafft <lion AT lion.leolix.org>]

Good morning.

On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 20:50 -0400, Verax wrote:
> These people troll in every vote thread, they'll just make stupid votes 
> in english.

It's really a sad to see people considering political protest
"troll"ing.


> A better solution IMO is to move the voting to somewhere where free-form 
> votes are not allowed.

As long as that system IS one that is up to democratic standards that's
fine. Democratic voting inherently requires to cast an invalid vote.

With best regards,


> --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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Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)