Do we need to?

[Bill_in_PDX]

Originally posted by Cyc
Bill, I think Strider meant George Washington of the once great Los Angeles Rams...

Cyc, you made me laugh so hard my coffee is all over the keyboard right now...



Well, at least it wasn't Kermit Washington of the briefly great Portland Trailblazers...

 

[Octavian X]

That quote may have some accuracy. If I remember my studies of the US constituion correcty, a major reason that we are not a direct democracy is that the founding fathers feared that the nation would decend into mob rule.

 

[Plexus]

did we have the same textbook, Octavian?

 

[Falcon02]

That's partly true. Another thing is.... imagine administering a "Direct Democracy" on the scale of Modern Countries, or even modern cities. You can't really do it. You could argue that the Internet provides one possibility now, but back then Cities were still large and the Country was larger. Direct Democracy only works with any practicality on the small scale.

The internet kinda brings it back up for discussion again... but I believe it would be VERY inaccurate and VERY exposed to vote tampering.

EDIT: BTW: I'm with Strider on this one, leaders shouldn't be required to post polls on everything, however leaders must awnser for decisions which the public specifically opposed, esp. if the leader is shown to be aware of it. However, general votes and votes on important decisions should be encouraged.

 

[Bill_in_PDX]

I don't think anyone is advocating polls for "everything", that is just a strawman arguement.

These discussions evolved from the failure to hold official polls on important issues such as the science queue and city locations.

 

[Octavian X]

We already held science queue and city placement types of polls before. Does this mean this whole discussion is ocmpletely irrelevant?

 

[Cyc]

Octavian X, I think the key word there is official. Strider is taking quanity and others are taking quality. You could post 20 polls on any given subject, but if they are not done by the Dept. Leader, are not laid out procedurally, and so forth, they become invalid. If they are repetitious and confusing, they will bore and confuse people meaning they probably won't reach quorum. So it's not whether they've been done or not, it's how they've been done.

 

[eyrei]

Originally posted by Octavian X
That quote may have some accuracy. If I remember my studies of the US constituion correcty, a major reason that we are not a direct democracy is that the founding fathers feared that the nation would decend into mob rule.

Heheheheheheh. That is why you have moderators! Uh...sorry.