Walter van Kalken wrote:
Also the soap opera in which users were in a revert
war over jimbo's
vote as it is a vote against the rules. And people including some very
langtime mods were arguing that Jimbo doesn't have any say in
nl.wikipedia affairs at all and that he was trying to influence the
vote. Which is an interesting debating point.
I myself was also told by longterm mods after I gave my apologies that
I shouldn't do that as I was influencing the vote.
Since when is it wrong to influence votes when you do so in a completely
transparent fashion? If you ban all influence from votes, nobody will
have any information or arguments on which to base a vote. Next thing
you know, using rational argument and persuasion to convince someone
that articles should be written from a neutral point of view will become
a violation of the "no-influence" policy.
--Michael Snow