Re: Re: Re: Null vote is incorrectly labelled?

"defer" is non-perlish. "abstain" is both non-perlish and incorrect -- it implies that you are making a positive statement that you are not voting, and will not vote. You abstain because you think that the act of voting is improper. This is mearly not voting. It's the difference between recusing yourself because of a conflict of intrest, and just not showing up.

I rather like #. It implies a true NOP, a throw-away. +=0 implies you're actively doing nothing, which rather gets in the way of later implementing a query vote. I don't like "sleep" because it's alphebetic, unlike the others.

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Re: Null vote is incorrectly labelled? by jonadab (Parson) on Jan 15, 2004 at 18:19 UTC
Wouldn't abstain imply that you're turning off the node (or perhaps the node's reputation) altogether, until such time as someone reinstates it? `$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}} split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/` [download]	[reply] [d/l]