On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:56:55PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:49:08AM +0200, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> >...
> > In truth, I made a mistake in vetoing, since I never wanted to stop 
> > Peter, it was just a strong opinion but I wrongly threw in a -1... (ya 
> > know, it happens that we use it in discussing, just for opinions, but 
> > when you follow 28 lists it sometimes happens to make a mistake).
> 
> In the past, I've advocated that people avoid using -1 to mean "strong
> against, but not a veto." It is just too confusing. People always end up
> having to append "yah that's a veto" or "not a veto". Why the hell use the
> short numeric voting form if you just have to explain it in prose?
> 
> To that end, I adovcate using something like "-0.9" to mean you're against
> it, but it isn't an official veto. Use -1 when you're actually vetoing.
> 

+0.9 :)  OK, seriously, +1.

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