Results

Original question:

A question submitted by Richard Henderson, elected Panel member.

Do you agree that all members of this organisation are entitled to pose questions to the entire membership, phrased in words of their choice?

Can all members poll their fellow members?

Total number of voters: 95

• one refinement: members could set threshold for receiving topics. board or polling committee would select questions to go to everyone. members could sign up to receive all questions and if 20% of this group aproves the question, it would be forward
• Yes, provided that there is an elected Polling Commission to streamline the question, avoid duplication and abuse of this privilege.
• I think that non panel members should be able to discuss their topics via discussion forums, and take polls there, and panel members should see the results - but not formal polls like this. It would get overwelming.
• a member should know for certain whether or not he is participating in an official poll of the organisation or some personal oe medial polling event - unofficial polls should carry no organisational weight
• Well, yes and no. Yes, but we can't have floods. That'd kill the process dead in its tracks.
• Historically, this 'Free-Style' have caused more divisions than good to the overall Organisation. However, there must exists a mechanism where bottom-up feedback is in-place and can be largely influenced by members.
• A vital requirement for any democracy.
• There should be a kind of a "PrePoll", maybe done on the Homepage, and if say, 10% of all members support they idea of voting on that, then everybody should vote on that
• Replace discussion by constant polling?
• E-mail makes this possible. How valuable would the responses be, however: they would come from a self-selected group, not a random sample of the membership, so their value as polling data would be limited, though reasoned responses could be good.
• in SIGs/parties but control overall polls
• However this process requires some control so as not to "consume" the organization though "vote philibustering".

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