Thanks. That's what I though the answer was going to be.
Can I repost this to the XP list?
John Roth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Villines" <
sharon(at)sharonvillines.com>
To: <
sociocracy(at)yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [sociocracy] How to apply consent based decision making to a
mailing list.
>
> On May 18, 2007, at 11:26 PM, jhrothjr wrote:
>
>> One of the members brought up consent based decision making, and I'm
>> at a loss to figure out how to make it work in the mailing list
>> environment. Within the moderation team, yes, although the two of us
>> usually don't have much problem establishing procedures. It's getting
>> the rest of the groups input that I'm a bit baffled about.
>
> Consent decision making only works in a group of people who:
>
> 1. Share a common aim and
> 2. Can reflect together on how best to achieve that aim
> 3. The group consents to who is included in the group (and thus in
> the decision making).
>
> If these three conditions cannot be met, then majority vote or
> autocratic decision making works best.
>
> If you have a group of moderators, they can use consent amongst
> themselves (if they can meet these two conditions). If the moderator
> list is representative of the kinds of people on the list, they
> should be able to make decisions that are in the best interests of
> the people on the list. But, obviously, not every person with every
> kind of aim.
>
> The view from list members will be that the moderators are making
> decisions autocratically because that is how an individual list
> member will experience it.
>
> Majority vote on a list will tend to produce a very homogeneous list
> as the minority is voted down and leaves.
>
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> Coauthor with John Buck of the forthcoming
> Consenting to a Deeper Democracy
> The Essential Guide to Sociocratic Principles and Methods
> Available May 2007
>
>