[pp.int.general] Pirate Manifesto: Start of voting window (Amendments' changes after the one week extra time)

[Richard M. Stallman]

Perhaps I can make a useful suggestion.

1. Inclusion of an amendment at this stage means that there will be a
vote on it, so that the parties/members can decide to accept it or not.

2. Rejecting an amendment at this stage denies them the chance to vote on it.
There is nothing good in that.

3. The main reason to have a deadline for amendments is to assure that
the vote can be held and will not be postponed forever. 

4. Accepting some amendments a few hours "late" will not interfere
with that goal, so there is no need to be so strict.

Thus, it is best to keep those amendments.

Likewise, if there was a confusion in how to propose amendments, and
some amendments were not proposed "the right way", it is better to keep
them and let them be voted on.

Suppose someone else, who was able to propose amendments "the right
way", wanted to propose these amendments.  He would not have done so,
because he saw them in the list already.

Better to let them be voted on, than to cut off the opportunity
out of bureaucratic strictness.