On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > The trouble is that there are two definitions of contributorship > in play here. There's the "this person has contributed to this > collective" and "this person gets the vote".
Yes, these are distinct, but irrelevant - the local collectives determine the former, and the individuals themselves decide the latter. Once the local group acknowledges that someone has contributed, they have no other role to play in the individual's electorate/voting discussion. > Failing to recognize > these as conceptually distinct will tie you up in knots; one way > of looking at the problem we're addressing here is how to > reconcile the two. I don't believe there is anything that needs to be done here. -John
