Re: [RFC] "Abstain" voting option for RFCs

2025年7月28日(月) 23:31 Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2025, at 3:38 AM, Ken Guest wrote: > > People can just abstain by not voting anyway - I really don't see what > > adding this would give us. > > There are a couple of recent RFCs, including some in voting now, where I don't know enough > about the subject to have an opinion, but I do want to be able to give the author the respect of > having read it and acknowledged it. It also signals that I am paying attention and engaging, even > if I don't have any particular input on this particular RFC. > > So even without getting into quorum or "use it or lose it" policies, I would still > find Abstain useful. Maybe not critical, but useful. And getting it in place, and people used to > it, could simplify future steps of using Abstain for those or other things. > > --Larry Garfield Hi I was suspicious that "Abstain" would not reflect a small number of opinions. Because in Unicode's CJK position, it tends to be a small number of people. However, I agree if you are just as Larry said, respecting the author of the RFC. Regards Yuya -- --------------------------- Yuya Hamada (tekimen) - https://tekitoh-memdhoi.info - https://github.com/youkidearitai -----------------------------