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Accept ManicStarSeed onto the team?
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White 5 45.45%
Black 0 0%
Abstain 6 54.55%
Total: 11 voters 100%
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notyoueither is offline notyoueither
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Aug 2001
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Membership for ManicStarSeed Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

OK. Let's see if this works.

quoted from another thread:
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Returning to the issue of veto, I propose that any new member must pass a poll, with a twist. Some groups use an interesting approach known as the black ball. In these groups when a membership issue is voted on it is done so with a box containing marbles. There are many white balls and a few black. Each member in turn reaches into the box and deposits a ball into a third compartment. When each has done so, the contents of the third compartment are examined by all. If the deposited balls are all white, the applicant is accepted. If there is a single black ball, he or she is rejected.

That sort of system works with a small number of people. It ensures that no one is forced to coexist with someone completely anathema to them. It does require that people be reasonable and not petty with their choices.

If we do this, then we would post a poll with White, Black, Abstain as the only options. A single Black vote would deny the application. Abstain would have no effect. People granted admission would see the forum and see the number of voters. People denied would never see it.


Here's how it goes.

Vote White for yes, let him in.
Vote Black for no, I have very strong reasons for not wanting this person on the team.
Vote Abstain if you do not care either way.

If after 48 hours there are no votes for Black, and assuming that a reasonable number of people vote White or Abstain, then ManicStarSeed will be granted entrance to the team. A single Black vote would deny entry.

Please let me know here if you think this is a very bad idea for membership issues.

Sir Ralph is offline Sir Ralph
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Dec 2001
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Yes from me. Btw, nbarclay has also asked to be a member, I suggest to put up a poll as well. And there's also some 0-post settler in our CivGroup (forgot the name).

notyoueither is offline notyoueither
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Actually, there are 2 people who have clicked 'join', but I have no idea who they are. I have not 'buzzed' them in.

nbarclay? Cool. Let's see...

FrustratedPoet is offline FrustratedPoet
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Mar 2002
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And there's also some 0-post settler in our CivGroup (forgot the name).


a DL?

FrustratedPoet is offline FrustratedPoet
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btw, I voted Abstain on this one since I have no strong opinion either way.
my only criteria for voting on new members;
1) do we want/need another member?
2) is the person in question a nice guy?

for most posters here I'll have no answer to 2) so will probably vote Abstain for them.

Meshelic is offline Meshelic
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Sep 2002
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I voted yes in this one MSS is a good choice, and I'm glad he's chosen to be on our team...

THe new criteria I have for members is this : is the person Flash? Or does the new person resemble some of the immature qualities that Flash stood for? If not, then I see no reason at all why they can't join us.

alva is offline alva
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Sep 2001
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a DL?


we should allways be carefull

I don't know MSS very well so, no strong views/feelings either way.

notyoueither is offline notyoueither
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No. MSS is not the DL in question. Pop open the team display (click of the shield). You will see two names we have never heard from, and that I have never heard of.

They clicked to join. I have not granted admission to the forum. In the meantime, they pack around the spiffy icon.

DeepO is offline DeepO

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Jan 2002
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NYE, have you PMed them to ask what their intentions are?

BTW, I abstained for MSS, I don't know him, so won't judge him either way.

DeepO

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No. I have no clue why they are there. Maybe I should. OK, I will.

DeepO is offline DeepO

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Oh, and 0-post settlers are simply too hazardous to accept... the risk of a DL is simply too big. We are not elitist, and PC isn't everything, we should have a rule that we have to be able to at least verify someone is not a DL before we accept him.

DeepO

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I seriously doubt we will accept anyone who is unknown to all of us. What do you think?

DeepO is offline DeepO

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I agree... but I don't want to limit this team to have only strategy ringers or demogamers either.

DeepO

Meshelic is offline Meshelic
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Sep 2002
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Oh hey this is our first poll!

(Not counting our civ polls, which were a little more paper & pen style...)

Arrian is offline Arrian
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Jul 2001
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I abstained. Don't know him, but others seem to and seem to be favorable. Fine by me.

-Arrian

Arrian is offline Arrian
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nbarclay, on the other hand, I do know, and I'd psyched to have him.

-Arrian

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Excellent. Sending PM to MSS.

ManicStarSeed is offline ManicStarSeed
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Jun 2002
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Thank you for the welcome.

Let me first say that it is quite odd to see your name in a polled thread of acceptance.

I guess that it feels good to not have been blackballed.

Coming from some background in consensual non-profits organizations, I appreciate the method, It is tough to work with disruptive members and all it really takes is one person to rub another wrong and it can get nasty. Like "i do not even want to watch" nasty. So I glad that my relations with the folks of this community are good to neutral. I am hope that I prove to be an active, positive member of the Gathering Storm.

Again thanks and lets kick some butt.

ManicStarSeed

Theseus is offline Theseus

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Apr 2002
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Welcome on board... I'm psyched.

Meshelic is offline Meshelic
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told you he was cool...

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