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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
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Subject: Re: These new voting schemes
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Date: 22 Oct 89 16:21:44 GMT
References: <4771@ncar.ucar.edu> <15249.253f3716@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <37123@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
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In article <37123@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>All of the proposals share another major fault: complexity.
>Complexity breeds flaming.  It's hard to manage, sure to result in
>misinterpretation, and increases bureaucracy.
>I firmly maintain the guidelines have to be made shorter, not longer.

How do you propose solving the sci.aquaria syndrome, then? This is a
problem which will occur more and more frequently as we go on, unless
something is done.

Both pre-votes and naming czars will increase complexity, and they have
their own problems: pre-voting will drag out an already lengthy process,
and name czars will be subject to their own set of flames.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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   Send richard@gryphon.com your NO vote on sci.aquaria; it belongs in rec.