[AFS3-std] AFS Standardization Proposal

[Christopher D. Clausen]

Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk> wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2008, at 22:09, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>>>  The vote-taker should, around the same time nominations start, post
>>>  a list of the eligible voters.
>>
>> I would feel uncomfortable defining participation.  Lurkers play an
>> important role in the
>> community even if they are not frequently published documents or
>> even commenting
>> on them.   Voting for the leadership in itself is an important
>> aspect of community
>> participation.
>
> Indeed. However, having a low bar to eligibility raises the spectre
> of vote-packing, where a large number of addresses join the list in
> the run up to an election purely to vote for a particular candidate.
> I'm not sure how we can avoid this, with any method for determining
> elegibility. Personally, I think that we're a sufficiently small
> community that we don't have to worry about these kind of attacks at
> the moment - if we grow to a scale where this is a problem, then
> hopefully we can evolve new systems as we grow.

Why not simply require voters to be on the list some period of time 
before any vote actually occurs?  Like a month?  Or two months?  Or one 
week preceding the first announcement about the vote?

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