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I would also mention that we generally expect people voting to either plan to at least potentially attend the conference, or have a prior participation/affiliation/interest in the Code4Lib Community. We're not expecting random people to be voting just for the hell of it, or to help our a freind with a proposal. (I also don't think the 'incident' of 'vote pandering' is all that awful or there was much reason for the 'perpetrator' to have expected anyone would have a problem with it. I do think when we have a system of open voting like we have, we should have a statement of what we expect from voters, however, that they have to read before voting. Which will keep people from accidentally violating community standards they didn't even know existed. ) On 12/1/2011 10:40 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: > On Dec 1, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Ross Singer wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Richard, Joel M<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> I feel this whole situation has tainted things somewhat. :( >>> >> Let's not blow things out of proportion. The aforementioned >> wrong-doing actually seems pretty innocent (there is backstory in the >> IRC channel, I'm not going to bring it up here). There is a valid >> case for advertising interest in your talks (or location, or t-shirt >> design, etc.), especially in an extremely crowded field, and we've >> never explicitly set a policy around what is appropriate and what >> isn't. I think a simple edit on the part of the "accused" would clear >> up any ambiguity of intention. >> >> Our one "known" incident was handled privately, but didn't really >> cause us to address the potential for impropriety. >> >> We seem to have quite a bit of support for the splash page. If people >> will help me draft up the wording -- ideally something we can point to >> when we want to guide people in the right direction in other forums -- >> I think we can put this issue to bed. > It depends on how harsh you want be ... I mean, if you're on the > fence about ballot stuffing, you could go with something like: > > When voting, we expect you to actually read through the list, > and pick the best ones. So yes, go ahead and vote for your > friends and colleagues, but also read through the others > to find other equally good proposals. > > -Joe >