Should citizens be allowed to post polls?

[Shaitan]

Section D Point 3: Citizens can't hold polls on rule changes, or any matter of state (ie. covered by any department.) If a citizen would like a rule changed they may start a topic on the proposed rule. Once the discussion is complete a citizen may request a poll to be posted by the Moderator of a member of the Cabinet where the rule change would be voted on.

Further explanation was that if the Moderator/Cabinet member still didn't want to post a poll the citizen would start a poll asking for popular support for the official to start a poll.

Cumbersome. Unwieldy. No way for citizens to get feedback quickly enough to make a difference if the official was being difficult.

Proposal 1: Citizens can hold polls but they are not binding on the officials. The appropriate official can take over a citizen poll. The moderators would close the original poll and the official would start a new one that is binding.

Proposal 2: First, Second, Carry rule. A citizen proposes a poll for the official to hold. If the proposal gets two more citizens behind it (seconded and carried) the official must hold the poll.

I personally like #2 better. It's very simple, won't clutter the forum and makes sure that topics that have a user base are adressed.

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

As a side note, if a cabinet member does not respond to a citizens request for a poll, inform me and I will make sure it is addressed.

I could go with proposal 2, including some new stipulations for all polls. I would like everyone who posts a poll on a topic to have a link in the poll to the discussion thread.

The driving force behind not letting everyone post their own polls comes from the Civ 2 game. People would just post polls without knowing all of the facts, there would be several polls going on the same topic at once, and none of them were 'official' so they didn't do anything but confuse the game.

 

[Cyc]

And yet another good idea, Shaitan. I was all for proposal #1 until I read proposal #2. I believe I like this approach much better on several levels.

And thanks again Duke for your added support.

 

[Shaitan]

Originally posted by Duke of Marlbrough
The driving force behind not letting everyone post their own polls comes from the Civ 2 game. People would just post polls without knowing all of the facts, there would be several polls going on the same topic at once, and none of them were 'official' so they didn't do anything but confuse the game.

I figured it was something like that. I think proposal #2 will handle that problem while still giving citizens their voice.