Thread: Maemo Community Council: Why didn't you vote?
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2009-03-25 , 22:47
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Originally Posted by BoxOfSnoo View Post
Last time I voted so that a bitter, hostile, elitist, rude & insulting person wouldn't make it into the council as a representative of the community.
You too?

I was absolutely positive last time that I wouldn't vote (for several reasons: not knowing what the council should be good for, thus not knowing how to decide which candidate would be best, finally not knowing the candidates too well...). Then Benson wrote:
Originally Posted by Benson View Post
vote for the one you think is best of the ones you know about; a vote for him is a vote against the one you despise, after all. And if this level of ignorance is fairly widespread, and is independent of which candidates are known/unknown, it'll all work out.
This made me vote against somebody instead of for somebody. I actually can't even remember who I voted for. It's all Benson's fault.
Originally Posted by BoxOfSnoo View Post
So this time I didn't even bother.
I share your frustration. Sometimes you wonder, don't you? But still: If I remember correctly (I don't have the figures at hand now), only ~160 people voted this time. You'll hardly find elections where your personal vote can make such a difference. You should have voted again. And again next time. Your conviction isn't wrong only because others don't share it.

Oh, and as a sidenote about him:
He almost made me leave this community for good last November. I thought: WTF? I wouldn't listen to, let alone talk to such a person in real life if I had to, for sake sake of my sanity and health. Why should I voluntarily come to a place where he's so omnipresent? I got angry each day about his insults and I had already decided I'd simply do myself a favor and leave the community.... when I discovered the ignore function. Now all I see is "This message is hidden...."
internettablettalk.com is a much better place now, as friendly as a community should be.