Topic: [ANN] Bitcoin Foundation Board Election Details Announced (Read 19778 times)
Looking forward to the evolution of the process next time. Attack ads with ominous music, flyers with the wrong voting dates and locations, voter intimidation, purging of the rolls, all that good stuff.
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As well as sending unsolicited PMs.
I'm sorry your guy didn't win Roger.
Not exactly. It just meant that the supporters of the candidate I supported, and I, spent most of our time posting and discussing the election here, trying to drum up support, while Elizabeth pretty much spent all her time posting there, where people are actually able to vote for her. We spent time on people who couldn't vote, while she spent time only on people who can. It's simple as that.
As well as sending unsolicited PMs. 
The results were so close that I didn't see a significant mandate for the winner. Also, it turned out that joining was not allowed after the election was announced. It might be better to have ranked voting with instant run-off and a majority needed to win for the next election.
The membership dead line for voting rights was announced ahead of time, but no one thought to modify the sign up pages to repeat that message (it should have been plastered in big bold letters every where). We had a dead line to prevent somebody from spending $250 bucks for sock puppet accounts and buy g the election. More rounds of voting would have been better IMHO.
The results were so close that I didn't see a significant mandate for the winner. Also, it turned out that joining was not allowed after the election was announced. It might be better to have ranked voting with instant run-off and a majority needed to win for the next election.
rigged 
lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical! Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.
And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?
Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.
You may be right. Reaching out to the community allowed the true colors of the candidates to become apparent to the foundation voting public so that neither you nor the candidate you supported could win. That does sound like sour grapes.
Not exactly. It just meant that the supporters of the candidate I supported, and I, spent most of our time posting and discussing the election here, trying to drum up support, while Elizabeth pretty much spent all her time posting there, where people are actually able to vote for her. We spent time on people who couldn't vote, while she spent time only on people who can. It's simple as that.
So, you don't believe foundation members read this forum?
rigged
lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical! Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.
And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?
Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.
You may be right. Reaching out to the community allowed the true colors of the candidates to become apparent to the foundation voting public so that neither you nor the candidate you supported could win. That does sound like sour grapes.
Not exactly. It just meant that the supporters of the candidate I supported, and I, spent most of our time posting and discussing the election here, trying to drum up support, while Elizabeth pretty much spent all her time posting there, where people are actually able to vote for her. We spent time on people who couldn't vote, while she spent time only on people who can. It's simple as that.
rigged
lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical! Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.
And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?
Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.
It's never a mistake to engage the community...recognizing that the community is really a bunch of individuals from which great ideas, companies, and groups form. But, in the end, the foundation election was decided by foundation voters.
rigged
lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical! Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.
And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?
Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.
You may be right. Reaching out to the community allowed the true colors of the candidates to become apparent to the foundation voting public so that neither you nor the candidate you supported could win. That does sound like sour grapes.
rigged
lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical! Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.
And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?
Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.
rigged
lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical! Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.
And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?
Sounds like sour grapes.
Just concede and move on.
Or maybe you should start your own organization.
rigged
lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical! Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.
rigged
lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical! 
rigged
She ran a great campaign. Congrats to her.
Was there ever a doubt.
I've always found it curious how supposed liberal free thinkers can end up being the most prejudiced people I meet. I'm an atheist too but don't believe in shunning someone because of their religious beliefs. If I did that I would have no friends. Most of the world believes in some form of religion.
Amen to that. QuestionAuthority, I'm writing your name down in my cool book! 
lol - It's been quite a while since someone thought of me as cool.
I've always found it curious how supposed liberal free thinkers can end up being the most prejudiced people I meet. I'm an atheist too but don't believe in shunning someone because of their religious beliefs. If I did that I would have no friends. Most of the world believes in some form of religion.
Amen to that. QuestionAuthority, I'm writing your name down in my cool book! This is an incredibly offensive question to ask someone. I immediately and completely distrust anyone who asks it.
It was meant to be a rhetorical question (talking about 'extremist ideology')-- I publicly said that I voted for Joerg and I trust him to act responsibly. I'm sorry if you were offended...
There are a lot of people running with beliefs likely different from yours our mine...but I wouldn't classify any of the candidates as extremists or "nutters" at all.
I've always found it curious how supposed liberal free thinkers can end up being the most prejudiced people I meet. I'm an atheist too but don't believe in shunning someone because of their religious beliefs. If I did that I would have no friends. Most of the world believes in some form of religion.
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