[sudo-discuss] Straw Polls

[Eddan Katz]

I agree in this particular case and in fact admit to unintentionally participating in stifling a straw poll because my comment was understood as an objection. I was merely trying to introduce a note of caution into asking who would be willing to pay for something and how much, given how some people could really be turned off by that kind of peer pressure, however well-meaning.

I do however hesitate to be absolute about it, or unconditional. Bad faith consensus blocking has been discussed at Sudo Room many times, and I would hope that the process we go with could not be exploited as such.


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On Jan 24, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yea, totally, straw polls should be friction free. This would have saved like 15-30 minutes of talking about nothing yesterday.
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> -Jehan
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> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Andrew <andrew at roshambomedia.com> wrote:
> I totally agree.
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> In addition, I think that there should be some rules around making official proposals, for example that there must reasonable time to bring up clarifying questions and to make comments before bringing it to an official vote. There by making a clear distinction between sraw poll and proposals.
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> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was frustrated last night by the repeated suppresion of straw polls, and meta-processing around whether members should even be able to call for a straw poll about specific things. 
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> I would like to propose that we add to the compact that any meeting participant, when they are on stack, is unconditionally allowed to call for a straw poll. The other participants can then either yea, nay, or abstain. I think this will make the process more smooth.
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> -jehan
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