[DEBATE] : Re: Debate management poll: apathy & too close to call

[Victor Munnik]

(late vote:) run it as it is and let "peer pressure" and self-responsibility
take care of the tone. (rationale:) Life is like that.

victor

-----Original Message-----
From: debate-bounces at lists.kabissa.org
[mailto:debate-bounces at lists.kabissa.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Bond
Sent: 26 May 2006 08:40 AM
To: debate at mailhost12.mweb.co.za:SA discussion list
Subject: [DEBATE] : Debate management poll: apathy & too close to call

Comrades, what do you think?

Debate's membership is currently 444. Since early May we've had a 
half-dozen new subscribers (welcome you lurkers and I apologise that you 
are subject to immediate soul-searching with a low degree of content). 
We had one unsub but a few days later that person resubbed (thanks).

To five of you who have sounded rather shrill about the debate list's 
'demise' or imminent censorship - ok, your names are Dominic, Ebrahim, 
Peter, Tony and Stefan - I think we will all collectively e-hold your 
hands and tell you to chill out and rejoin the community after you have 
taken a deep breath.

Between 12-21 May, only ten people sent me their votes (although I 
briefly had an Outlook Express crash so it's possible another one or two 
came in I didn't reconstruct well). That's really not enough of a 
sample, is it. And there's no clear trends that I can discern in the 
vote, below.

Again, your choices were:
 > a) the status quo (very libertarian);
 > b) leave it to moderator discretion, but with an urging for more 
explicit interventions and occasional time-out periods or even bannings;
 > c) adopt the code of desired behaviour that Charlene suggested, below;
 > d) adopt a different code (suggestions welcome).

Here's the breakdown of the votes according to race, nationality (e = 
expat) and gender.

a)
W SA M
B SA M
W E M

b)
W E M
W E F
B SA M

c)
W E M
W E M
W SA F
W SA F

So we have 434 people voting not to vote; and the ten who voted are 
nearly evenly split.

What do we do now??

Ciao,
P.

(PS, to be frank I'm an 'A' voter largely because I'm bogged down in too 
many other things to do anything much more than the status quo - so my 
request once again is if anyone wants to take the 'ownership' of the 
debate list and all that it entails, do contact me, thanks.)