[Cz-editcouncil] [Fwd: Re: a question (was Re: Resolution 0001:vote)]

[Larry Sanger]

Members,

The rules state that voting takes place on the wiki.  Moreover, it is the
position of the Chair that voting *ought* to take place on the wiki, not on
this list.

There are three reasons for this.  First, a declaration of a vote on the
list has a tendency to bias other members unduly in favor of the position
voted for.  Second, for purposes of tallying a vote, the Chair or Secretary
would have to add the vote to the wiki, and this would require extra
bookkeeping (it seems the person marking the vote on the wiki would have to
link to the URL of the mail in the archives containing the member's vote).
Third, if done very much, this would create an annoying amount of list
"noise," i.e., low-information traffic.

(My offer to give you a quick telephone tutorial, if you don't know how to
get on the wiki to vote, stands.  It's not hard, really--it isn't called
"wikiwiki" (fast) for nothing.)

The Chair.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cz-editcouncil-bounces at mail.citizendium.org 
> [mailto:cz-editcouncil-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On 
> Behalf Of Raymond Yee
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 6:32 PM
> To: The Citizendium Editorial Council
> Subject: [Cz-editcouncil] [Fwd: Re: a question (was Re: 
> Resolution 0001:vote)]
> 
> 
> With Larry's permission, I'm forwarding the following 
> exchange between 
> Larry and me around the question of what proportion of votes 
> would  be 
> required to amend the procedures.  I'm in favor of adopting 
> the proposed 
> Editorial Council Rules of Procedures if we are clear on what 
> it would 
> take to amend them.
> 
> -Raymond Yee
> 
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