[Noisebridge-discuss] Keeping associate members in their place

[Johny Radio]

On 12/18/2013 4:11 PM, Al Sweigart wrote:
> At the previous weekly meeting I helped put forward a consensus 
> proposal to replace consensus with majority vote. We talked about it 
> for about 15 minutes before it was blocked by a couple members.

i thought proposals cannot be blocked until a week later? even if some 
people say "we're going to block this", it's still valuable to review 
the topic at the following meeting, if just for the sake of discussion. 
I hope you do bring it up next week, as i will be there to support. Go Al!

Al Sweigart wrote:
>
> As a capital-M member, I have a lot of power. Associate members can't 
> block.
>

Al, I only half-agree-- the problem is not that Members have more power 
than AM's. The problem is that Members who block have more power than 
OTHER MEMBERS. That's what causes stagnation.


Johny Radio


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