The current text concerning the Bike Racks reads as follows:
Article 5: Dispute Resolution in the Outside Forum
¶1: The Bike Racks Forum
The Bike Racks Forum is a read and write forum available to all members. It is used for:
• resolving disputes between individual members when these disputes do not involve a violation of board rules;
• off-topic discussions that are derailing a thread but do not warrant a thread of their own;
• restricting posters who have provided invalid email addresses.
Members may start a thread in that forum to resolve a personal dispute.
It is proposed that we add here the following sentence.
This forum is intended solely for earnest attempts to resolve bona fide disputes, and threads that are not started for that purpose will be moved.
And that the text concerning second use of the Bike Racks (derailed threads) be changed to:
• splitting off quarrelsome or disruptive posts that are derailing a thread;
And that the text concerning the third use of the Bike Racks (invalid email addresses) be eliminated because it is obsolete under our current group permission system.
If this amendment is not passed, the current wording of ¶1 will remain unchanged, and it will be up to the discretion of the Rangers whether or not a particular thread disturbs the coherence of the forum and to move it accordingly using their routine powers under Article 3, ¶4. A poster whose thread has been moved may still contest this decision as provided in Article 3, ¶7 but all other means of protest remain a violation of the by-laws.
When the poll is put up, it will ask you to ratify the amendment by agreeing to the changes proposed. If you do not want those changes to Article 5, ¶1, then you should vote that you do not agree.