Re: [ga] Motion to the Chair

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Bill,

Here's another example of how confusion with the process is eating up time
and bites. Not wishing to single Joop out, but according to our BEST
PRACTICES Draft Document, this would be deemed a PROPOSAL, not a MOTION, and
therefore not at a stage to create an expectation of moving forward for a
VOTE, even if it is seconded.

Sandy also makes a valid point about criteria for VOTING, which again, is
clarified by the DEFINITIONS and FLOWCHART. All this tells me that the time
is right to post something onlist, so others are aware there is something of
value forthcoming that could solve a lot of these problems.

What do you think? 

Regards,
Joanna

  

on 7/8/01 12:27 AM, Sandy Harris at sandy@storm.ca wrote:

> Joop Teernstra wrote:
> 
>> The bandwidth of this GA is being wasted to the point that I fear many
>> subscribers have stopped reading most postings.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> MOTION
>> I would like to request your instruction to the list monitors that ,
>> instead of judging and sentencing rulebreakers themselves , they are
>> authorized by the Chair to pass on names of offenders (people they get
>> repeated ga-abuse complaints about) to a List Polling Officer, who will put
>> up these names for an ostracism vote by the participants.
>> END OF MOTION
> 
> Everyone is authorised to use a killfile. If you think a particular person's
> postings are rubbish, or they are posting far too often, just put them in
> your killfile and stop reading them. If enough of us do that, they are
> ostracised.
> 
> This implies, I think, that monitors need only deal with things that cannot
> reasonably be handled by killfile. We probably still need monitors to deal
> with extreme personal attacks, but not much else.
> 
> I haven't found it necessary to killfile anyone here yet, though I admit
> some folks tempt me.
> 
> Methinks your motion is absurd. We need less off-topic stuff, less backbiting,
> and less of the illusion that votes in a self-selected non-representative
> group are meaningful. I think your motion would mean more of all those.
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