Re: Yes to Publicity! Not to Anonimit! Was: Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

> > I am only trying to question the "works better" part. I am not 
> > so sure about that and I would like to make descisions based on facts
> > instead of plain cliches "anonimity is good!".
> >    
>
> There's an argument not based on a cliche. It's:
>
> "Open voting can make it more difficult to work with other people in the
> GNOME project who know you voted against them in the Foundation
> Elections."
I never said that anonymity does not solve *this* problem. It does. But 
it also creates new
problems and I am just saying that you need to realize it and know about 
it to make an educated
descision. If someone thinks that anonimity is a holy graal that has 
only pluses and no minuses
then it's exactly the cliche: "anonimity is good!" :) Unfortunately, I 
have real examples from
the very close past of my country when anonimity was as a protection for 
doing bad things
(or just not doing good things). Yes, I am afraid of anonimity and about 
descisions made
by anonymous voting when *nobody* is *personaly* responsible for the result.

I don't know what is the right answer for you. I don't need anonimity 
because I am trying
to do things that I think are right. And I think that I can take 
responsibility for my actions and my
descisions. And if someone does not like what I am doing then I have to 
work it out,
find a compromise, etc. It's a part of the equation and you have to take 
it in consideration
anyway (if you work with someone that was not elected and s/he knows 
that you did vote then
s/he can blaim you anyway even if s/he does not know how *exactly* did 
you vote).


Aleksey

P.S. I hope everyone understands that there is no such a thing like 
anonimity these days.
If someone really wants to find out how you vote in GNOME Foundation 
elections then s/he can find it.
The proposed system makes it *harder* to find this out. But not 
impossible. And if a person
would be really pissed of by election results then s/he would be able to 
find who voted against
him (may be not for this but for the next election defenetly).