gatehealing wrote:Wasn't there some votes for general Mechanical and general Quartz that were made in error? If so, I think that the current plan gives those folks a chance to be heard since it was a very close vote.
There are spoiled ballet papers in every vote. They simply get discarded. Members were told several times not to vote for these categories.
Serlo wrote:Kip wrote: "For now we shall just be voting on the model(s). You may vote for up to 3 to narrow things down."
Yes, but Kip also wrote in the preamble to the vote:
Kip wrote:What model would you like to see used as a basis for the 2015 FLE? We are talking about minor changes here We could, depending on the model, make changes to the crystal, dial color, hands, rotor and dial. Keep in mind that all these things would come at an additional cost to the base price shown.
This clearly implies that we were to decide a single model/case to use. And that was everyone's expectation during the course of the vote too.
I was going to offer an olive branch and write here that, despite my misgivings above, I would happily go along with the majority view - and then the irony hit me: we clearly don't always abide by the majority view!
Also, just to be clear, if the vote had been the other way around, with the C65 winning, I would be saying exactly the same thing about the C65 needing to be the FLE. This is a point of fairness, not because I might prefer the C5S (I like both cases).