Re: election process for EB members

Hi,

I do not think anyone necessarily is doing a bad job or that this would be
considered removing anyone. Perhaps this would just be an to affirm a
democratic feeling within blitzed. Perhaps an EB vote could be held every
2 years or something. That way people don't have the feeling like there
will be a vote to remove/replace them, they are just getting elected or
re-elected.


just my thoughts.
andy

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Andy Smith wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:20:17AM +0200, Anton Wolkov wrote:
> > let's think of all this, what possible results a vote may give,
> > EB staff stays as it is, which gives nothing but an illusion of democracy.
>
> No, if those with a stake in Blitzed wish for its EB to stay the
> same then that's democracy, not an illusion of it.
>
> > EB staff changes which creates real democracy with it's problems, and
> > in the end may fail miserably, or give nothing.
>
> It depends on who exactly gets to vote, but I know I wouldn't like
> to carry on doing EB tasks unless it was felt I was doing a good
> job.  I couldn't then be sure that whoever comes next was going to
> do a good job, but that's just life isn't it..
>
> > since the current EB would probably have a veto power over this vote,
> > I believe, everyone who wants to vote, should post a public comment on
> > why, and later this comment will be reviewed by moderators, and only
> > if comment makes sense, and you can see the person is not casting
> > random votes it should be accepted.
>
> It seems silly to give us veto over a vote that removes one or more
> of us, and I don't see the sense of requring people votes to be
> "moderated" and judged worthy or not either.  If there were to be
> elections then I think it would be best to think carefully about who
> can vote rather than letting everyone vote and then trying to make
> sure they did so for the "right reasons".
>
> Some suggestions for sensibly restricting the voting population:
>
> - blitzed staff
>
> - server admins
>
> - users who have had a registered nick for more than 1 year
>
> - some combination of the above
>