>At 01:33 PM 3/17/02 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>sui.generis at myrealbox.com wrote:
>>
>>>brave people to vote yes if the damn thing remembers who you are
>>>and it's on your server so you can see who was so insubordinate.
>>
>>Right. I'm keeping a little list. And I'm going to, um, do
>>something with it, as soon as I figure out what.
>>
>>You're kidding, right?
>>
>>Doug
>
>yes, and you're kidding about the vote. it is idiotic to have the
>list vote on it. lists cannot be democracies in that way because the
>members of the community change. you can also pull the plug on it.
>the vote becomes symbolic of all sorts of irrational things. given
>that people STILL think that it's about getting rid of archives and
>don't understand the technology, they're confused. etc. all in all,
>voting is a dumb idea and i'm not participating it in it except to
>rig it. why the fuck DO you think there are so many no votes!?
The more I think about it the more pissed off I get. First you tell me I treat this list like a bourgeois property owner, then when I ask people to vote on a matter of list policy, you try to sabotage it. Oh, and then the defender of the rural poor against all the citified smarty pants thinks the members of this list are too stupid to undertand the issues.
Could it be that you're afraid the vote would show that you're in a tiny minority so you don't want it to happen? Could it be that the turnout would be small, showing that almost no one gives a shit about the issue except you and "the always-angry Mr Budge," as Ravi so accurately put it?
I should just shut this fucking thing down. I'd get more work done, and have to endure less crap in my life.
Doug