[Theforum] Re: voting

javier velasco lists at mantruc.com
Wed Jan 30 12:09:32 CST 2002


Erika Meyer wrote:
>
> I just want to add a little bit.
>
> If I learned anything from the process experiment (are the archives
> still up? --I could never remember the URL.) I learned that in a
> group this large and loose, simplicity is also very important.  I
> think that our voting system at the process was a bit too complex.
> Having an application that handles start & end times & tallying would
> be very very very very very helpful. ;-)
>
> There are qualities I think that are important to processes
> (including but not limited to voting):
>
> - simplicity -- a group so large and loose needs to be able to
> understand a process with a minimum of study.
>
> - fairness -- a process should be set up to be as fair as possible to
> all participants.
>
> - documentation -- everything needs to be written down clearly and
> kept in an easy to find location.

big +1

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