[maemo-community] RFC - from those who didn't vote

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
>
> I was hoping that I could get some feedback from those who decided not
> to vote in the election, on why that was.

I'd be happy - if we came up with a decent set of options (yours is
certainly a good start), and an easy way of getting feedback
(surveymonkey.com or similar?) of emailing _directly_ anyone who was
eligible to vote and didn't (I believe you can tell *who* voted, but
not *how*).

> To be frank, I was a bit disappointed with turnout under 25%, I was
> expecting around a third of the people with 25 karma to vote - after
> all, these are the people who are the most engaged in the community.

Agreed. If the most engaged people in the community aren't voting,
there is also the possibility that our rating of "engagedness" (karma)
is not just tweakingly inaccurate, but quite wildly out.

Indeed, the thoughts we've been kicking around about decaying karma
fit into your "no longer active" option; and could be a mitigation
against that affecting future statistics.

Cheers,

Andrew

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