Elections

[MSB]

I disagree with this idea. Popular spammers (such as The Stranger) could get elected and spam the place down and should a power hungry admin get in power (such as me ) then elections would stop anyway. Also an evil admin could end up changing the Org forever and doing such things as changing the complete layout of the forums and banning individuals should they not be liked by those in power. This system would not be a democracy, it would be anarchy.

I would only consider, and when I say consider I only mean consider, supporting this system should the candidates be made up only of existing staff members and noble Senior Members who have never had warning points in their lifetime here. Even then I would not feel any true support of the system. The Org is fine as it is - a dictatorship with those who know what they are doing in charge.

[caravel]

Not a good idea at all. It never works. I do have, as ever, a horror story about this sort of thing but I won't bore you with that now. The problem with a mod/admin that is elected by a poll of the userbase is as follows:

1) The userbase elect a personality, not someone that is is best suited to the job.
2) Most of the userbase won't bother to vote, only those that are trying to push their particular candidate.
3) Once in position the person may feel somehow beholden to those that elected him.
4) Encourages the formation of partisan groups, leading to flame wars and boycotts etc.
5) The person may lack the required skills.
6) He may dissolve the admins and mods and proclaim himself emperor of all the org
7) Camels might get deleted.

If this were to happen we would be looking back on it years later talking of the "Golden Age" of TosaInu and the folly of the fools that thought they knew better:

AndresTheCunning: "...we believed we knew better, but now, under that most despicably evil tyrant, Caravel everything is illegal. It is eternally black and none are happy. I remember the avatars...

New Member: "the avatars? surely they are a legend like the signatures?"

AndresTheCunning: "no, they existed once, and there were signatures, and colours, and the moderators kept the peace, all were content and camels ran freely upon the open forums... all gone now..."

[Andres]

AndresTheCunning: "no, they existed once, and there were signatures, and colours, and the moderators kept the peace, all were content and those dirty, stinking, filthy and tricksy camels ran freely upon the open forums... all gone now..."

I had to fix that...

[Sensei Warrior]

Not a good idea at all. It never works. The problem with a mod/admin that is elected by a poll of the userbase is as follows:

1) The userbase elect a personality, not someone that is is best suited to the job.
2) Most of the userbase won't bother to vote, only those that are trying to push their particular candidate.
3) Once in position the person may feel somehow beholden to those that elected him.
4) Encourages the formation of partisan groups, leading to flame wars and boycotts etc.
5) The person may lack the required skills.
6) He may dissolve the admins and mods and proclaim himself emperor of all the org
7) Camels might get deleted.

If this were to happen we would be looking back on it years later talking of the "Golden Age" of TosaInu and the folly of the fools that thought they knew better:

Its shocking how much that statement defines the American voting system, and we all see how well that works.

As many have said, a benevolent dictatorship is the way to go. Another quaint euphamism is, if it 'aint broked don't fix it.

Actually even if we tried it I think Tosa would get voted in overwhelmingly, and then mass petitioned for him to lead a coup to straighten everything back out.