Vote your mod into office?

[Rabett_Rover]

Originally Posted by sikelsh

Correct very useful indeed, it enables me to cherry pick the users I want to ignore much easier.... oh what's that you say? some more Latin pomposity was it, I cant hear it anymore.

Be careful if I were you mate. That sounds very close to being a personal attack against another member.

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[mark d3]

Originally Posted by Raistlin

Democratic it would certainly be Corin.

Logistically, I imagine it would be quite some undertaking.

However, in my view, the benefits to the club forum would far outweigh the logistical problems and work involved in carrying out such an operation.

Anybody willing to do such a thing for the community would certainly be held in high esteem. I imagine that this would be, to use a disgusting but appropriate word, ground-breaking.

Not all of us keen though. One NAY almost immediately. Still, that's the value of a democratic community. People can do what their conscience requires

i totally agree this would be a much more democratic and fairer way of doing things

[FROGGY]

What's a democracy then?
Is that where you vote for people who promise you the earth then deliver the exact opposite?
How many of us on here know who, out of the thousands of members, would make a good Mod (and what is a good Mod? Different things to different people I suspect.)
I for one prefer to go with the system we have and have had.
So a NO vote from me.

Mick

[Roverowner]

Originally Posted by Raistlin

That may well be the case Alan, but the exercise is useful in and of itself, regardless of whether it matures into fruition

Very wise my friend.... have voted

[Roverowner]

I didn´t learn latin in school (East Howe Secondry for louts didn´t do that sort of thing) so I find the quotes fun. I google them The only one I know is Utrique Paratus (hope I don´t get sent down if the spelling is wrong) As I´m an ex -sparrowfart-. (Uh... Parachute Regiment) If a few people want to -jazz it up- with some latin then why not. Why should they be having a dig at others who can´t speak it Shades of inferiority complex. Don´t bovver me mate (as we say in Bornemuff)

I´m in quite a few clubs here in Sweden and they are all democratic. Voting for the board etc, etc. Don´t really know of a club that isn´t So this and -the other- have been a new experience. All the nice folk I´ve become aquainted with outway the vailed -Stalinistic-attitude that sometimes prevails. When it gets too much, or a democratic club for the 75 comes into being, I will stay (if not kicked out)

Keeping things democratically right is a right pain (I know as I was the chairman of a such club for 7 years) but unfortunately, , there is no other way (for me anyway.... mother and her damned ethics)

There are a lot of people who are angry at the club (directors) for things that have, allegedly, been said and done. They might well have a true grievence. Can´t really say one way or the other as the evidence hasn´t been presented (to me anyway... I am a bit slow)

Some people have come from one place where they think that everything is hunky dory, back to the place of the -crime- and nit pick. Think that is very childish and rather sad. But in my occupation I see it quite often and is unfortunately a human trait (although not all have it). If others rise to the bait then it gives the nit pickers their reward. Best thing is just to ignore or better acnowledge that they have an interesting view They soon tire when they don´t get the right sort of -bite-

After all the poo and hickups on here the last few weeks I am convinced that democracy is the only way (not saying that the democracy that is practiced today is the same thing I mean)

Life is a weird and wonderful place -don´t you find-...

[Departed 32016]

thanks for the poll- my idea was to have a list of pledges that mods would do if voted- and realy simple if they didn't complete them- they wouldn't be voted for next year...

[ianfletcher]

Originally Posted by FROGGY

Is that where you vote for people who promise you the earth then deliver the exact opposite?

Sounds like the conservative party to me

[Raistlin]

There seem to be some pivotal names missing from the poll

[Roverowner]

Originally Posted by ianfletcher

Sounds like the conservative party to me

Never voted for anyone who has promised the earth. Sound very dodgy Politicians and Democracy are not the same thing. Freedom of choice is rather stinted when there are only 5 or so to choose from and they are really all tarred with the same brush. Democracy and honesty are integral parts of each other.... and there you have the first land mine

[Departed 32016]

interesting to see that out of the 13 people voting no- 5 of them are mods and none have voted yes