Excellent discussion...
Im still on the fence over simple majority rules vs. simple majority but with the veto clause... thinking... will vote.
One thing though... since the vetoer (nice word Ro
) will be required to give a reason... what would constitute a valid reason? In an instance where 50% or over want a person in... lets say that number is 80% even... but one person for example has a BIG personal problem with invitee X and feels he/she simply cannot coexist with X on b77... if the vetoer writes that, is that a valid reason? Or would valid reasons for a veto relate only to invitee X's general inability to get along with people or a personal style/ideas that are widely inappropriate to this board... ?
Yet if the latter is true, I cannot imagine that person garnering an 80% majority vote for approved entry....
I hope Im not too confusing in what Im saying
Just wondering...
And while Im here, my two cents on the invite process - It works alright, Im really liking that we are trying to democratically decide how to make it uniform...
Yet when I think about it long and hard there is one part of this whole invite process I feel uneasy with... and that is the fact that these are basically threads discussing a person... and threads that are subsequently removed and never seen by the person once he/she gains entry to the site... I understand the reasoning behind this... yet it rubs me the wrong way a bit in a moral sense...
I understand this is thus far a gated community and existing members vote democratically on admissibility of others...I know slanderous things are not said in these threads... but the threads DO constitute discussion upon a person's value and ability to integrate with this community...a part of me feels that talking about others behind their back, even if nothing untrue or disrespectful is said, is a bit iffy if those people cannot ever see what was said or discussed...
Yet I do understand the damage that could be done if invite threads were visible to all for all time...ex. Person X gets admitted... sees thread in which they received a 70% YES vote but two posts by members A and B question the invite and seem to have voted "no" based on the posts they made... consequently, person X gets hurt feelings or harbours some antagonism for either person A or B and thats how nastyness starts...
Im just raising an issue that popped into my brain and more than anything else I guess Im trying to work it out for myself through writing...
~enchantress