On 2011-06-02 03:57, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:op.vwf1mfuueav7ka@localhost.localdomain... > > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:16:40 -0400, dsimcha <dsim...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> What's the policy for people who submitted articles? If we don't > >> officially have > >> one, I think everyone who submitted an article should vote for any > >> article except > >> their own. If submitters are allowed to vote for themselves, of course > >> they all > >> will and their votes will effectively cancel out. I think it's best to > >> give each > >> submitter a meaningful vote as to what the best other article is. > > > > There were never any rules about authors of articles not being able to > > vote. Since all of us had posted to the newsgroup prior to the > > announcement, we can all vote. > > > > I was planning on voting for the best article besides my own because I > > think that's the gentlemanly thing to do. But there are no rules as far > > as whether you can vote for your own article or not. I.e. if you want to > > vote for your own article, there is no rule against that. > > > > -Steve > > If other authors vote for themselves, then I'd want to vote for myself as > well. However, I much prefer Steve's plan of voting for someone other than > himself. I agree it's "the gentlemanly thing to do". Besides, if most of us > do vote for ourselves, then they'll pretty much just cancel out anyway. > > So I have a proposal: Even if we are technically allowed to vote for > ourselves, I propose that we all agree not to. With Steve and I in favor of > this, that makes it 2 out of the 5 so far. So how about it, Jonathan, Dave > and Robert?
Fine with me. - Jonathan M Davis
