Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 22:55:42 -0500, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> said:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:34:32PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> A supermajority requirement is a requirement for a rough
>> consensus. By putting D ahead of the options you do not like, you
>> are effectively rejecting the possibility that that option could be
>> a valid solution to whatever we are voting for. Vetoing solutions
>> is not a great way to achieve consensus; but consensus is not
>> something that can be forced.
> Part of the point of this sub-thread is to determine whether or not
> there is an effective veto power available to a much smaller
> minority of the voters than was intended even by our supermajority
> requirements.
> Hence "(Or: How You and Five of Your Friends Can Kill Any GR)".
It assumes the electorate is sheep.
If you attach a non germane amendment to a GR with a stated
name, people are going to vote against it -- unless they are dumb
idiots.
So, if there are enough people who prefer a GR, no amount of
silly amendments is going to prevent the option from reaching
majority.
Of course, in your workd view, I must eb a dastardly rat all
ready to spring bunches of irrelevant amendments to any Robinson GR,
and that must be the only reason I must be arguing against the
protector against ossification.
manoj
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