On Tue, 3/10/15, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [Dng] greets To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 5:44 PM On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:04:26PM +0100, Peter Maloney wrote:
>> especially hope it doesn't say anything like "anyone can join en masse >> and override all the decisions completely overnight". > > In churches, especially those rules by the congregation, this is called > steeplejacking. > > My church has a rule that no one gets to vote until they've been a > member of the congregation for at least a year. Thiw slowws things > down. > > I'm not sure what the rule should be for Devuan. > > -- hendrik -------------------------------------------- Here's a story . . . my local food co-op recently had a vote to boycott a product. There are @16,000 members. In the end the vote was 639 for the boycott and 338 against. I call it the tyranny of the majority of the minority. Still leaves a bitter taste . . . The point being that unless folks participate and have made a well-founded decision (not just on hearsay), democracy doesn't work very well . . . I'm just a little ray of sunshine today . . . :) golinux _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
