Dear Ben,
As stated before, I’m against minimal attendance (or even participation –
however you would measure that, numbers of words spoken or written?)
requirements. I’ve seen in university, in private associations, policitcs… that
this simply doesn’t solve the problem. I totally agree with
Tim,
One problem we're trying to address is the potential for a great number of
“submarine voters”. Such members may remain inactive for extended periods
of time and then surface only to vote for or against something they
suddenly are urged to support or oppose, without being aware of the
What is your argument in response to the point that any potential bad actors
will be trivially able to satisfy the participation metrics?
I’m very worried we’ll end up doing a lot of management and tracking work,
without actually solving the problem.
-Tim
From: Ben Wilson
Sent: Monday, July
All,
I have thought a lot about this, including various other formulas (e.g.
market share) to come up with something reasonable, but I've come back to
attendance as the key metric that we need to focus on. I just think that an
attendance metric provides the only workable, measurable, and sound
