Re: [ga] Consensus on consensus?

[eric <eric@hi-tek.com>]

I like this Karl,

Somewhere between consensus and vote.
Somewhere between Roberts and Lovells best practices.
Herein lies a solution.
But we all know the only solution is to keep evolving and to learn from our
mistakes.

"a man criticized must of done something, a man not criticized must of done
nothing" (ed02)

Eric

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, William S. Lovell wrote:
>
> > I've reviewed Karl's "Prescription-to-Promote" email, and I must say
> > that he is, for once, uncharacteristically dead wrong
>
> I'd like to insert a minor correction - if I am dead wrong, it wouldn't be
> "for once".  I'm a practiced expert at being wrong.  I've had some real
> buzzards of ideas over the years - For instance, back in the very early
> 1980's, when I first saw the new IBM PC, I said that it didn't have enough
> power to run networking code.
>
> On the other hand, having experienced plenty of errors - either of my own
> making or contributed by others, I've come to appreciate a bit of formal
> procedure that encapsulates the wisdom of those who came before.
>
> Check out http://www.bitshift.org/archives/rror.shtml These are a version
> of Roberts Rules that have been modified for use in an electronic forum.
> There are still many of the things that you object to.  However, I find
> them necessary to deal with the "tyranny of the chairman" problem.
>
> For years I've watched electronic forums move from the nice-n-friendly
> mode in which things move quickly into non-procedural chaos.  This is why
> I find process, particularly formalized procedures extremely important.
>
>                 --karl--
>
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