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RE: Foundation Structure Proposal Election Voting History - Call For A Community Audit
488 votes in total? With several voters double voting. OK, it's not a lot yet everybody had a chance to vote.
What I find a bit odd it that non-personal votes are in the bag too. Like sbi*, for example.
OK, you could say that, somewhere along the line, there is a real person behind every functional account :)
Good work!
It's a stake-based vote, so voting multiple is the same as just voting. We voted all our accounts because we believe this matters to Steem.
Edit: reading down, I realize that you meant we posted on two selections each time. We analyzed the proposals and marked the ones that we thought were most likely to succeed. If it had a better than 50% shot we voted for it.
Because this was a vote being weighed by stake, not one vote one person (reflecting the DPoS governance model of Steem) individuals were told they could vote with as many accounts as they wanted.
Many users have their stake spread out over multiple accounts, and therefore had to vote with many to be counted. Only “owned” stake, not delegated, was weighed so accounts that are seen as more “non personal” still have their own stake, and a person working behind the project.
All these votes are fair and were explained from the beginning as such.
As far as the turnout, yeah I wish it was higher.
But everyone was “allowed” to vote, they were encouraged, it was trending, pinned by Steemit Inc. and many other things. There was no roar from the community about not wanting to support it, so I believe the number still shows consensus on those paying attention. We also have nothing to compare the number to, as we have never done anything like this before.
Some people didn’t understand it enough, as it was a quite technical decision, and they just didn’t see how they could give input. Some only use the site to blog and just don’t pay too much attention to anything else. Some will just never care enough to get involved and only will complain, or my favorite in this situation “I’m not voting because there aren’t enough people voting so it doesn’t make sense.” 🙂
We can’t force people to care.
I think it’s pretty amazing that over 400 active people on this platform do care enough to pay attention to this very long and somewhat confusing process and actually showed up to have their voices heard.
Others will just show up to upvote comments that are somewhat critical or to bash the whole thing as they didn’t like something about it, rather than get involved to try to fix anything. That’s just the world we live in... the doers will keep doing.. the rest will either benefit from the work done or find something else to complain about.
Either way, I think this is the start of something beneficial for the community and I’m glad we have so many that see that and care enough to show up. 🙂
I didn't bother voting since it was quite obvious to me that the merger proposal will win. I have suspected from the start that those who are in the merger proposal are going to win this and make it look like a "fair" voting.
They were the people communicating with Steem Inc about making a foundation even before the broader community learned about it.
There was only two choices. The other three were impractical. And the second choice appeared to lack specifics about implementation. Which left only one choice. All in all, it sounded like a controlled election to me.
I have actually voted very late and - after voting - reloaded the page to find 482 votes.
I didn't expect such a low number actually.
Mr. SBI likes to vote. Ain't nutin wrong wit dat. Some accounts remained neutral, ain't nutin wrong wit dat either.
It seems most users don't care. Services that voted have passion. I would be more interested in hearing why others I support didn't care to vote. Obviously some like steemit and steemalliance cannot. Others maybe had membership reasons etc. It was their choice.
With double vote I mean that an account voted for two different choices at the same time, of course.
Since it was possible to do so it's OK, I guess 😀
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Sorry yeah i came to realize that.
You are right participation was dismal.
Most people are here for casual reasons, to make a quick buck, pessimistic about the proposal or want to remain neutral. I Voted 3 myself. I think because of stake based voting alts arent a big deal, but remove those and service accounts and its even lower.
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Maybe people are not used to vote FOR something?
With the elections in politics, when you vote at all, you vote AGAINST somebody 😀
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