On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 07:10:45PM -0500, Lynn Winebarger wrote: > Well, if votes are only demanded from the membership as a whole on > important issues on a relatively infrequent basis, I don't think it would > be too much to ask for members to not be apathetic. If voting were > frequent and on relatively minor matters I would say quorum should be low > because everyone has lives and deadlines and all kinds of things to make > room for on their calendar. > I would not be adverse to making voting at least somewhat mandatory on > important issues, perhaps if a member fails to vote on (say) 80% of the > important votes they are downgraded... Sounds harsh, though. But > apathetic democracies are problematic, since issues usually then get > decided by the extremes, rather than any true majority. But that way, > problems with meeting quorums would be somewhat self-correcting. Hmm... I wonder what others have to say. Considering the opposition to expiring memberships... hmmmm -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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