2010/9/21 Tux99 <[email protected]> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, vfmBOFH wrote: > > > > I did not say that representatives are decison makers. As its position > > indicates, they "represent" their respective communities. Their vote (or > > decision) *must* be their communities one. > > There is no need for representative democracy on the Internet, arranging > local poll in each community and then a global one where the community > reps vote takes more time and effort than a single global poll. >
And what about people who don't undersand english, for example? > > All that's needed is direct links to the global poll from the local > community web sites so everyone can partecipate. > And what happens if the options in the poll doesn't fit with a specific community needs? > > > The "central hub" should be seen as a "parliament", where users (who have > > previously elected their representatives) are represented. > > Completely disagree. And what about those Mageia users that don't have a > local community or that prefer spending their time on the global forum > rather than in local forums? > As same in the parliaments in the Real World (TM) there are mixed groups whith their own voice and vote. > Again there is zero need for a representative democracy on the Internet. > It only distorts the true wishes of the users and potentially creates > local ego-power-positions that only cause controversy and in-fights. > I think in a representative meritocracy, in fact... No place for egos and controversy are if the work is evaluated. > > _______________________________________________ > Mageia-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss >
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