On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 07:45 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > >> 6115 O 1 1.0 Murphy Get on with it! > > AGAINSTx5, gives the Assessor /even more/ power over timing scams than e > > currently does. (I'm actually considering writing proposals to give > > everyone a fair chance at Assessor-related timing scams, rather than > > just the Assessor; this is moving in the wrong direction.) > > I'm not-so-keen on "whoever types fastest or writes a cron job" powers: > I prefer "An officer has authority and elect a new one if e abuses it > (like we did with AFO). -Goethe > Well, one thing that worries me is that with democratisation possible while voting isn't, the Assessor gets quite a lot of power over whether ordinary proposals are adopted or not. (I am reminded of proposal 5707; incidentally, it could have been defeated with 2 support at pretty much any time in October, but nobody thought of retrying the original failed attempt to democratise.)
-- ais523
