Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Jima wrote:
>> Mike Miller wrote:
>>> But I started this ball rolling and I suggested that people who were
>>> voting were being disrespectful trouble-makers because no one had
>>> suggested that we start voting at that moment. So maybe people who
>>> agreed with me didn't vote at first.
>>
>> Who exactly declared or signed off on the voting window? It seemed a
>> bit arbitrary to me. Probably others, too.
>
> I think no one declared it. Some people, specifically those who opposed
> a name change, just started sending in "votes" to the list.
>
> They did this knowing full well that we were not ready, that we were
> organizing plans, etc.
Err, I think you're missing my point, that saying "we're not ready"
and proclaiming a distant voting window was just as arbitrary and one-sided.
That's the problem with getting a ball rolling: sometimes you can't
control it once it picks up momentum.
Jima