[Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

> Hoi,
> There are people I know who put more trust in the Iranian people then in
> the
> American people. Now, it is completely unacceptable at this time to deny
> people from the USA the possibility to become a steward. There are many
> countries who are not trusted to do right. So how are we going to deal
> with
> this ?
>
> The mistrust of Iran is as valid as the mistrust of the United States of
> America. How are we going to deal with this? Is it acceptable to allow for
> this kind of hostile notions? If it is acceptable, should we not deal with
> such arguments consistently and assess each country in the same way ?
> Thanks,
>        GerardM
>
Actually, I do not think this issue has any solution. Though I perfectly
agree that the sentiment is unreasonable, the same users could just cast
no-votes without motivating them, and get out just fine. It has of course
more impact if one not just votes but also motivates his/her vote, but I
am not sure in this case the motivations really played any role, it looks
like users have already made up their minds.

Cheers
Yaroslav