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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Where have No votes gotten us?
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Date: 31 May 89 22:00:52 GMT
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Some people have thought of abolishing No votes.  A good question
to ask is, "what have No votes done?"

The most No votes I ever saw was for tcp.eniac, and it still got more
than 100 more yes votes.

Has anybody kept records of surveys over the ages?  I can only recall perhaps
one or two times that a vote lost by getting more than 100 yes votes, but
enough no votes to cancel down below 100 again.

Most votes seem to get from 2-3 No votes.  The really flame infested votes
get from 30 to 40 except in rare cases.   Even in those cases it's pretty
common to see something like 130 yes, 20 no.   In fact it's a rare survey
that gets more than 150 Yes votes it seems.

(This was caused in part by the fact that the vote-taker, if he/she saw
that the vote was not getting enough yes votes half way through, would
issue an urgent plea for more votes.   If the vote already had 130 by the
1 or 2 week period, the vote taker would not issue such a plea, being
tired of getting and counting votes.)

But after all this heat and smoke, just how significant has the whole
No vote process been?
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473