[ANN] Bitcoin Foundation Board Election Details Announced

[chmod755]

This is an incredibly offensive question to ask someone. I immediately and completely distrust anyone who asks it.

It was meant to be a rhetorical question (talking about 'extremist ideology')-- I publicly said that I voted for Joerg and I trust him to act responsibly. I'm sorry if you were offended...

[bg002h]

This is an incredibly offensive question to ask someone. I immediately and completely distrust anyone who asks it.

It was meant to be a rhetorical question (talking about 'extremist ideology')-- I publicly said that I voted for Joerg and I trust him to act responsibly. I'm sorry if you were offended...

There are a lot of people running with beliefs likely different from yours our mine...but I wouldn't classify any of the candidates as extremists or "nutters" at all.

[RodeoX]

This is an incredibly offensive question to ask someone. I immediately and completely distrust anyone who asks it.

It was meant to be a rhetorical question (talking about 'extremist ideology')-- I publicly said that I voted for Joerg and I trust him to act responsibly. I'm sorry if you were offended...

There are a lot of people running with beliefs likely different from yours our mine...but I wouldn't classify any of the candidates as extremists or "nutters" at all.

Agreed. I am an atheist. But I try to look at the whole package. Many people I love believe in this or that God. They are not nuts, they are just following the pattern they grew up with.

[QuestionAuthority]

This is an incredibly offensive question to ask someone. I immediately and completely distrust anyone who asks it.

It was meant to be a rhetorical question (talking about 'extremist ideology')-- I publicly said that I voted for Joerg and I trust him to act responsibly. I'm sorry if you were offended...

There are a lot of people running with beliefs likely different from yours our mine...but I wouldn't classify any of the candidates as extremists or "nutters" at all.

Agreed. I am an atheist. But I try to look at the whole package. Many people I love believe in this or that God. They are not nuts, they are just following the pattern they grew up with.

I've always found it curious how supposed liberal free thinkers can end up being the most prejudiced people I meet. I'm an atheist too but don't believe in shunning someone because of their religious beliefs. If I did that I would have no friends. Most of the world believes in some form of religion.

[RodeoX]

I've always found it curious how supposed liberal free thinkers can end up being the most prejudiced people I meet. I'm an atheist too but don't believe in shunning someone because of their religious beliefs. If I did that I would have no friends. Most of the world believes in some form of religion.

Amen to that. QuestionAuthority, I'm writing your name down in my cool book! 

[QuestionAuthority]

I've always found it curious how supposed liberal free thinkers can end up being the most prejudiced people I meet. I'm an atheist too but don't believe in shunning someone because of their religious beliefs. If I did that I would have no friends. Most of the world believes in some form of religion.

Amen to that. QuestionAuthority, I'm writing your name down in my cool book! 

lol - It's been quite a while since someone thought of me as cool. 

[theymos]

Elizabeth won:
https://electionbuddy.com/elections/9787/results/pqdyb3n39



Great election, everyone!

[QuestionAuthority]

Elizabeth won:
https://electionbuddy.com/elections/9787/results/pqdyb3n39



Great election, everyone!

Was there ever a doubt. 

[BCB]

She ran a great campaign.  Congrats to her.

[bernard75]

rigged

[RodeoX]

rigged

lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical!

[Rassah]

rigged

lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical!

Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.

[BCB]

rigged

lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical!

Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.

And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?

Sounds like sour grapes.

Just concede and move on.

Or maybe you should start your own organization.

[Rassah]

rigged

lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical!

Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.

And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?

Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.

[QuestionAuthority]

rigged

lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical!

Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.

And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?

Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.

You may be right. Reaching out to the community allowed the true colors of the candidates to become apparent to the foundation voting public so that neither you nor the candidate you supported could win. That does sound like sour grapes.

[bg002h]

rigged

lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical!

Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.

And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?

Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.

It's never a mistake to engage the community...recognizing that the community is really a bunch of individuals from which great ideas, companies, and groups form. But, in the end, the foundation election was decided by foundation voters.

[Rassah]

rigged

lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical!

Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.

And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?

Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.

You may be right. Reaching out to the community allowed the true colors of the candidates to become apparent to the foundation voting public so that neither you nor the candidate you supported could win. That does sound like sour grapes.

Not exactly. It just meant that the supporters of the candidate I supported, and I, spent most of our time posting and discussing the election here, trying to drum up support, while Elizabeth pretty much spent all her time posting there, where people are actually able to vote for her. We spent time on people who couldn't vote, while she spent time only on people who can. It's simple as that.

[QuestionAuthority]

rigged

lol, yes. She rigged it by developing relationships with potential voters. She then solicited input and articulated a position. She's diabolical!

Emphasis on "potential voters." It was other candidate's mistake to actually try to reach out to the community, instead of only focusing specifically on the small and closed-off Bitcoin Foundation forum membership.

And it is her fault that the general community did not participate in the election or the Foundation in general?

Not at all. Just a mistake on all the other candidate's part, including myself.

You may be right. Reaching out to the community allowed the true colors of the candidates to become apparent to the foundation voting public so that neither you nor the candidate you supported could win. That does sound like sour grapes.

Not exactly. It just meant that the supporters of the candidate I supported, and I, spent most of our time posting and discussing the election here, trying to drum up support, while Elizabeth pretty much spent all her time posting there, where people are actually able to vote for her. We spent time on people who couldn't vote, while she spent time only on people who can. It's simple as that.

So, you don't believe foundation members read this forum?

[td services]

The results were so close that I didn't see a significant mandate for the winner. Also, it turned out that joining was not allowed after the election was announced. It might be better to have ranked voting with instant run-off and a majority needed to win for the next election.

[bg002h]

The results were so close that I didn't see a significant mandate for the winner. Also, it turned out that joining was not allowed after the election was announced. It might be better to have ranked voting with instant run-off and a majority needed to win for the next election.

The membership dead line for voting rights was announced ahead of time, but no one thought to modify the sign up pages to repeat that message (it should have been plastered in big bold letters every where).

We had a dead line to prevent somebody from spending $250 bucks for sock puppet accounts and buy g the election. More rounds of voting would have been better IMHO.