Toby Bartels wrote:
What *would* help with decentralising
administrators' power
is mav's idea of automatic old hand status.
Decentralising administrators' power? Has that been a problem lately? On the
contrary, I think. The desire for voting originates not in a strong, central
decision-making, but in the lack thereof. We don't get anything done because there
*is* no central authority at all saying "OK, let's do that". Because there
are too many people giving too many opinions over too long a time, until noone cares about
the topic anymore, or knows who wants what for which reasons, and there is never ever a
point where a decision is reached.
On the few occasions I remember when some "central authority" made a
"final" decision, there was usually few resistance. Everyone said "well, if
*Jimbo* says so...", glad that someone made a decision.
Voting, for us, is not a way to get rid of the landlords who've been suppressing the
poor village people. It's a way to canalize the flood of opinions so we won't
drown in them.
Magnus