[openbeos] Re: name vote & domain snatchers
- From: "Daniel Reinhold" <danielr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:00:42 CDT
Hey! I really like that idea.
Keep the results initially private, pare it down to a reasonable number
of choices that we can actually afford to register, and then conduct
the final vote.
At least that lets the community have a say in the final decision
rather than just taking their votes and then going off into a private
chamber and making the final choice in secrecy. It does take away the
intermediate selection from the community, but giving them the final
word is cool -- and this way we have some protection from people
wanting to play stupid games.
>Daniel wrote:
>> 3 (.com, .org, .net) gives you 75 domains to register. That's a few
>> dollars.
>
>Well, I don't think we would need all of them (at least I would
>consider .com and .net optional - that could be done for the winner
>only, if at all).
>
>> This makes me wonder if the name selection should actually be
private
>> and not public afterall. We could privately select a winner,
register
>> the domain(s) and *then* publicly announce the winner. That would
>> certainly bum alot of people -- including me, because I would prefer
>> to
>> keep it open. But then again, I would hate the see the name
selection
>> messed up because the public nature of the process could allow
domain
>> snatchers to mess up our plans.
>
>We can have the first vote public, but we would not show the results
of
>the poll. Then we could have a "closed" poll for the remaining set
>(team leads, whatever). We could acquire the names for the three best
>choices, and present them as the final completely public vote - that
>would exclude many people in this intermediate vote, but it would be
>safe.
>OTOH I wouldn't want to be excluded from such a vote ;-)
>
>> Or am I just being paranoid?
>
>Maybe - one cannot know before :-))
>
>Adios...
> Axel.
>
>
>
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