Re: [Notice] Social Contract Change Vote

[kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

broonie@sirena.org.uk (Mark Brown)  wrote on 12.10.00 in <[🔎] 20001012115749.C19388@tardis.ed.ac.uk>:

> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:31:14PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
>
> > I don't think the Secretary should summarize proposals this way -- it's
> > almost impossible to do without bias.  Presumably the proponents of
> > the proposals spent a lot of time crafting them to say exactly what
> > they should say, and that's what the voters should be reading.
>
> It might be worth looking at the way in which CFVs are produced for
> the various Usenet heirachies - there's a lot of experience there of
> doing just this sort of thing.

Well, in the hierarchies I know about (such as the Big8), there is a lot  
of experience in *not* doing just this thing. The ballot is the text  
presented by just one side of the argument (the one that wants to change  
the status quo).

MfG Kai