Re: spoon-discuss: proposals/scoring

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Benjamin Bradley:
> > What about abstentions? They are also votes.
> 
> The reasoning behind leaving out abstentions is that they are not really a
> vote for or against a given ballot item. But if there is sufficient
> interest in counting them, I will of course add them.
> Also, is there a way to distinguish between an explicit abstention vote
> and an implicit abstention vote (when someone doesn't vote at all on the
> ballot) ?

Definitely there is. I would call the former an abstention, and the latter a failure to vote. This is signified on on the Proposal Voting page as 'a' and '-', respectively.

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J.