Re: [wg-review] Greg Burton has been elected Co-chair

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

Sotiropoulos wrote:
> 

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> However, I shudder to think that this List started out some 300 strong and was reduced to 140, of which only 41 voted.  There's something seriously
> wrong with these numbers.
> 
> To those who did not vote (i.e. the vast majority on this List):  What exactly are you doing here?  Even if you didn't like the candidates, or the voting
> process, I think you at least owe yourselves the dignity of having stated as much.  I for one would like to hear from some/all of those people who are
> hanging back on this List, who may have felt disaffected by the voting process or the candidate choices.  Please feel free to contact me offlist if you don't
> wish to post publicly.
> 

I suggest that it is wrong, to snipe at people for not voting. I for one
did not vote, due to the nature of the process. That is apart from the
merits of the candidates. I may have been inclined to have voted for
you, or, one other, as the least undesirable (to me), of the candidates,
but, on the basis of the comments above, I would now, have not been so
inclined.

Voting is a matter of choice, not an obligation, unless you believe in
totalitarian rule on the Internet, and, since you object to people
exerting freedom of choice, you lose any support that I may have had for
you.

Your comments above, sound to me like those of a bad loser; "I lost, you
did not vote, so you who did not vote, and, caused me to lose, should
not be here".

Remember, you invited this feedback, and, a proverb exists, to the
effect "You should be careful for what you ask, in case you get it.".

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Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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