Timeline for At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
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| Jun 15, 2023 at 10:15 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @TimothyChow Some safety measure of that kind will be necessary, since it is easy to create new accounts or sockpuppets to skew the vote. | |
| Jun 14, 2023 at 0:52 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @StevenLandsburg At the risk of sounding elitist, perhaps we could revive John Stuart Mill's notorious suggestion of plural voting, and weight the votes of high-rep users more heavily? | |
| Jun 13, 2023 at 23:21 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | I expect that a referendum would be decided by voters who have far less information about both costs and benefits, and far less invested in the outcome, than the moderators do. I'd therefore prefer to see this decision made by the moderators (probably after considerable public and/or semipublic discussion). If we had different moderators, I might feel differently. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 13:29 | comment | added | Nike Dattani | @LoïcTeyssier who it represents is one thing, but more specifically, how they are chosen is another. Elections on SE don't give the community much time to do research about candidates, and even if it did, most people don't know when the elections are and have 0 experience with seeing how the candidates act in important situations, so they vote for people for incorrect reasons. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 11:55 | comment | added | Loïc Teyssier | @NikeDattani: well, that's the really old question about who "representative democracy" actually represents. Not sure that anybody came up with a complete answer, whatever the chosen ballot type. | |
| Jun 11, 2023 at 19:16 | comment | added | Nike Dattani | I agree that it shouldn't happen without a vote, but how to make sure that the vote outcome is an accurate representation of of what community feels is best for the future, is another issue. | |
| Jun 11, 2023 at 7:20 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Nevertheless, it would be counterproductive to keep calling a (failed) referendum frequently. | |
| Jun 11, 2023 at 2:11 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @NoahSnyder True, but the threshold for calling a vote can be much lower, since merely calling a vote is not exercising a "nuclear option." | |
| Jun 10, 2023 at 21:29 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | You still need to know when to call the vote though! | |
| Jun 10, 2023 at 20:11 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |