Re: WDDM and WDDF Forum

[Lee Gottlieb <acommon1(at)peoplepc.com>]

Mirek,

Thanks for asking, but I doubt very much if I would make an acceptable
moderator for the website as I have often been told by my radical friends
that I am too radical and too focused even for them. I doubt if I could tolerate
much trivia or drifting away from the objective of promoting DD in
positive ways. Based upon current conversations, I would probably
ban many of the current participants and then there would be only a few
of us left. I doubt if that would be best for WDDM.

Lee





-----Original Message-----
From: "M. Kolar" <wddm(at)mkolar.org>
Sent: Apr 17, 2005 5:39 PM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject: Re: WDDM and WDDF Forum

Lee, I strongly agree with your
> To answer Mirek's question, "what is the Mission of WDDM?"
>
> If it is not to discuss ways to promote the growth of direct democracy
> everywhere in the world, then I am wasting my time reading the
> messages on this site--which for the most part have been rather
> trivial and irrelevant to the prime topic.

Do we need to be more specific in the wording of our Mission Statement at
the top of our site? It is the fiorst thing a visitor will see.

Could you perhaps be the leader/moderator for the "WDDM Mission Project" -
trying to come up with an appropriate formulation?

I think Bernard Clayson had some ideas in the past.

Here I repeat for the benefit of all that this mailing list has a rather
nice feature that you can retrieve easily (large) blocks of past postings
using the wddm-index and wddm-get addreses.

To get just the headings of postings e.g. No. 10 to 104, send an empty
(message)
wddm-index.10_104(at)world-wide-democracy.net
To get then e.g messages 50 to 60, send an (empty) message
wddm-get.50_50(at)world-wide-democracy.net

Mirek



> It seems to me that WDDF and WDDM are indeed two different groups
> with, perhaps, two different objectives, so I agree with Mirek, let's
> clearly state the objectives of WDDF right here and now so that
> those of us who are tired of mere talk can get down to the business of
> creating a real world DD organization (as opposed to this virtual world).
>
> On the subject of strict procedural policies, as Mirek suggests, as opposed
> to the the informal and free contributions of members and nonmembers alike
> as suggested by Leo--my first thoughts are that strict procedures have
> always been necessary in most all organized groups wanting positive results.
> But DD is an animal of a different nature so perhaps we can follow Leo's
> guidance for a while to see how it goes. If we don't like the results, we can
> always create rules and select a moderator to enforce them. We should be
> willing to try anything that encourages democratic procedures.
>
> Cheers
>
> Lee G.



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