[Theforum] Re: voting

isaac isaac at members.evolt.org
Wed Jan 30 00:54:08 CST 2002


> What really concerns me is the number of people who don't vote at all. At
> this time, theforum has 69 members (
> http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/roster/theforum ). If you look at the email
> addresses, you immediately recognise some of them. There are others,
> however, who have never come out of lurk mode.

Consider a concept of theforum members (interested in seeing what happens
here), and a subset of registered voting members (interested in what
happens, and wanting to vote to steer the community).

My original idea for all of this included just that. Admission to the ranks
of registered voting members was by a vote from existing members. I wouldn't
expect anyone to be voted down in this process -- I only suggest that it's
in place so we're not overrun by dickheads who join solely to vote that MEO
allows them to run all kinda warez crap.

I'm happy to try a "registered voting member" thing, but without the
admission check. We do have careful and responsible members. We're not /.,
with ranks of dickheads doing nothing but try to destroy threads with trolls
(well, not many of them), and offensive material, so it's a comparably minor
risk.

> What do we do for this problem? Something drastic like taking away a
> person's voting right if he or she hasn't voted (unless he or she
> explicitly abstained) even once in the last three votes on theforum? Or
> something else? If theforum is "your chance to guide the community you
> love", people should be doing some guiding, damn it. ;)

Could try a rough policy of "missing three votes with no reason results in
removal of voting rights", but I'm not sure that that is necessary. Instead
if we spot people ignoring polls, but being registered to vote, we can email
them privately to coax them into voicing their opinion (even by registering
an abstention from that particular vote).

I really think, though, that private emails to registered voters (with a
link to a voting application that makes their vote as easy as a click, or
just a reply) would do something to encouraging people to have their
say/vote.


isaac

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