"Newcomer-2014. Summer"

2) The decision to switch to a chess timer was made by the entire forum.

I don't remember there being a vote to choose between a SOD timer and a chess timer. The details of the chess timer were clarified, yes, but there was no vote on the actual choice, so strictly speaking, the change in rules was dictated solely by the will of the person conducting the polls, in which the SOD timer was excluded a priori. The entire forum did not directly participate in making this particular decision.

// but this is just formally, and in reality, of course, nothing prevented them from playing with a SOD timer //