Subject: PG election!
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Posted on: 2022-06-17 14:12:58 UTC
It is now June 17, which, I believe, is the date set by Nesh. I’m copying and editing what Tomash wrote last time. Though I feel that we can combine the Nomination and Election threads, as the last “Election” thread just became a Plort discussion.
From Tomash:
Other things this thread should be used for include discussing the nominations and quibbling about electoral procedure.
Election for the position of Permission Giver is by consensus. To keep things straightforward, nominations that appear controversial will not be getting on the ballot.
There's no fixed number of winners; we can elect as many or as few people as we like. We could (and in the event there turn out to be no good candidates, should) pick no new PGs at all.
Both the nominations and voting will remain open until the thread settles down (about a day or two of no activity) or for one week, whichever is longer. A new thread will be created if an active election-related thread falls off the front page.
To formalize the process a bit, I propose the following: In the vote, you need to have a score of at least +10 points to get elected. Votes in favor give you +1 point, votes against give -4 points (to penalize controversial candidates), and not having an opinion/abstentions is worth 0 points. (This roughly matches the structure of how Delta and Maslab were elected.)
If anyone has objections to any of the above of proposals for different ways to do it, please reply with them.
How to nominate someone:
Simply reply to this thread saying who you're nominating and for what. It would be a good idea to explain a bit why you're making that nomination, but that isn't strictly required.
If you're nominated, you need to affirmatively accept the nomination. Otherwise, I'll assume you don't want the job.
You can't nominate yourself.
Qualifications:
Permission Givers, per the wiki, "know the PPC well and are widely trusted to be sensible and fair. They tend to be members who have been around for several years, and may also be older than the average Boarder, but not necessarily".
Hopefully I'm not bungling this dreadfully.
—Ls
