Re: Nominations, and reasons

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 17:08 +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> Well,
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Matteo Beccati wrote:
> > On 10/01/2012 16:46, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> > > The mail I sent yesterday says clearly that you can nominate yourself.
> > > But you need someone to second your nomination.
> > >
> > > Copy/paste:
> > > For a member to be a candidate in the elections, he/she must be
> > > nominated by one member and seconded by at least one other. It is
> > > possible to nominate yourself.
> >
> > Yes, that is precisely what I was referring to. It'd be advisable that
> > the first nomination comes from the nominee him/herself. Than someone
> > else would eventually second it.
> >
> > Much easier than nominating someone who's not going to accept or having
> > to privately check before sending out a nomination.
>
> Some people/cultures prefer not to nominate her-/himself.
> If someone wants to nominate her-/himself, this way is open. Imho there
> is no real problem here.
>

I, for one, don't like to nominate myself.

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