User blog comment:-Algol-/Of policies, admins and the community/@comment-217683-20130129082243/@comment-4319257-20130130195556

Now don't tell me you can read minds, alright?

"Now, do you genuinely think she only expected you to go look? Or do you think she knew you would go vote?"

Let's say, yes, I think she only expected me to go and look. You can't really prove that, neither you can prove the opposite. As for what she knew, I don't know that and neither do you.

"the issue is that she specifically informed only people likely to vote the way she wanted based on their past comments and votes"

Nope. First of all, not only. Secondly, several people who voted against the policy never made any "past comments and votes".

"If she'd just told a random bunch of editors who had voted different ways on this issue in the past, it wouldn't be an issue"

That would be practically impossible due to technical reasons. Also, you state, that she only could inform specific users, who wanted "differently". You can't really expect her to do that, because people can change their opinions and new people, who didn't vote before, might want to vote now.

See, you can't really direct anyone how and to whom they should talk. That's way too control-obsessed and paranoid. Kinda hard to assume good faith in you after such things.

FYI, "telling a random bunch of editors" is EXACTLY what she did in DA wiki chat. Many of them have an account on this wiki. And most of them didn't vote.

"She deliberately attempted to sway the vote her way by bringing in folks from other sites"

No, those folks are from this site, just as from any other. they may not have a single edit, but they aren't supposed to either.

Please stop slandering Ygrain, will you?

"with no clear pattern (that I can discern) of trying to inform only people inclined to support your position"

Now this is the whole unfortunate problem. 99% of the time you can never really discern that pattern. You can only theorize, but that is hardly grounds for a fair block. Let's say the user is my friend. A good friend. Does it mean anything? No, it is completely irrelevant to the case. Just as Ygrain contacting people she knows. Seriously, contacting a complete stranger would be a bit rude, wouldn't it?

Do you choose to evade the last question deliberately, or you missed it? The post is long, but for your convenience I typed it in caps and bold, I will do so again:

WHY A REVOTE WASN'T DONE?