[aur-general] meaning of "abstain"

[Peter Lewis]

On Tuesday 07 December 2010 20:53:40 Kaiting Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Thorsten Töpper 
<atsutane at freethoughts.de>wrote:
> > ... I'm stuck between an Abstain and a No and I guess some other TUs are
> > also thinking about how they should handle this...
> 
> You can stop being stuck; with the current bylaws Abstain and No are
> functionally identical.

Just out of interest - has a circumstance occured as yet where a difference in 
understanding of the concept of "abstain" would have affected the outcome? If 
so, what happened?