User blog comment:Humans Vanish/Personal thoughts regarding Language Policy/@comment-217683-20110505054354/@comment-217683-20110510185206

I understand what your intent was. I never questioned what you intended the vote to be on. However, people vote on what is proposed, not on what the proposer intended. And, given that you did not produce a viable alternative or lay out any sort of guidelines for modified enforcement, the vote did end up being a vote to keep or scrap the current policy. This is evidenced by several comments left by people who voted who were confused because of the complete lack of anything to vote on other than that the current policy needed some unquantified and unspecified "change". If all it says is "The language policy needs to be changed", but no change is specified, well, then it does become a vote on whether or not to keep the current policy.

So yeah, I did know what I was voting for. I was voting for what was presented. And it appears that what was presented is not what you intended to be presented. If you feel that your idea was not adequately represented or stated (as, again, several voters felt), feel free to propose it again, or better yet (and this time it's my turn to say something I've said a thousand times and am getting tired of saying) take it up directly with me or one of the admins! Or bring it up in the Town Hall! There are so many options to choose from besides just sniping at others here! This goes for anyone who thinks enforcement needs to be changed up a bit. I kinda agree, but then, I'm also cool with the current enforcement practices too. So you people have to bit just a bit proactive if you want to see this changed.