Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:35:07 03/29/01
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On March 29, 2001 at 12:41:14, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On March 29, 2001 at 03:59:28, David Blackman wrote: > >>On March 28, 2001 at 16:56:45, Steven Schwartz wrote: >> >>I'd like to say thanks very much to the old moderators for doing very well, and >>thanks to the new moderators for taking on this difficult task ... >> >>>Bob Hyatt, Bruce Moreland, and Dann Corbit are the >>>new moderators. >> >>I think this is at least the third time for all three moderators. They have all >>done well in the past, and i think they will do well again, but aren't we >>risking burn-out here? Some mix of experience and new blood may have been >>better. Still, they all "volunteered" :-) > >I didn't want to do it. I was trying to get new people to volunteer to do it. >I nominated several of the people on the list, none of whom had ever done the >job before. Meanwhile, I had been nominated, too. Since I have done the job >twice before, I thought about declining, but I had a year off between this time >and the last time, which is enough that I found it hard to plead burn-out. > >I figured that it would look dubious if I tried to get others to do a job that I >had rejected. > >I don't think that I'm going to do this again. Three times is enough for >anyone. I really think that new people should get these jobs. There are people >on the list who have run several times without "winning", and they should get >the jobs next time. That would be best for everyone. > >No offense to Bob and Dann, but I didn't vote for anyone who had done this >before. > >bruce Here is an idea. How about slightly changing the election process? One idea: take the just-completed vote totals. You Dann and I moderate for 3 months. Then the _next_ three go for the next 3 months. Then we do another election. Or we vote once a year with the top 3 going first, the next 3 taking over after 6 months. Or any other variation that would (a) reduce total number of elections and (b) get more people involved.
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