NXT FUNDING COMMITTEE VOTE IS NOW UNDERWAY UNTIL 12:15 AM MARCH 8 (UTC)
Does that mean that votes are limited to nominees and candidates by default ? just wondering.
Everybody gets to vote. I have edited my original post to clarify.
I had hoped to have this better organized at this point, but I've had a bad week. Sorry.
Hey, guys, if you would, please edit your quote of my vote post so only the corrected original one shows up in the thread here. Thx.
Thanks rickyjames for putting in the work. I think your reputation is impeccable but imho there may be an issue with voting setup this way as you are the only one who know who votes and by exclusion who does not vote. This may turn out well because people trust you but let's consider this case. If in a certain committee, the fifth voted candidate is only one or two votes above the sixth voted candidate, then sixth candidate should have the right to question you about what criterion you use to decide if an user who asked you for voting can get the right to vote (password+username in this case). It could get even worse if the sixth voted candidate is someone supposed to get in by the public while fifth voted candidate is not.
"Everybody gets to vote" is probably not a well-thought proposition because that means you are giving the votes to new users, as well as Emule if he wants so. So I guess you will use some kind of criterion which imo should be well-defined ASAP.
To be honest, I prefer the open voting style with some activity criterion used back then when we voted for NXT logo. Since the way it is set up now will leave quite a few question marks on the shoulder of the voting organizer. It could work given Rickyhames impeccable reputation but I would rather avoid this type of precedent.
Well, I do have criteria in my mind which should be stated up front. I do not intend to send a code to anybody who established an account after we started this election process a week ago, and if I don't recognize a familiar name, I intend to check.
As for Emule....why should he not vote? He is a PITA. So what?
Lurkers - they should get to vote too, I think. Lurking is not a crime.
Hopefully this will all turn out OK, with the community overwhelming any outliers as they should. We'll see.
I agree the possibility exists that some kind of sticky situation coming up at the end. It is my intention to publish at the end everybody's name who voted and their assigned ID/password. I am the first filter as an caring individual to make sure that there is no manipulation. I want to give out as much info at the end so the group as a whole can make that determination too as a second filter.
As far as your worst case scenario, that a sixth person overwhelms a fifth that "should" have won - I don't really see how that can happen or how anybody would know it had happened. What I worry about is a runoff to break a tie.
All I can say is let's go forward and see what DOES happen. I've got some codes to mail out....
