On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 14:10, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj wrote: > 10,000 years of human history tell me the honour system doesn't work. If I'm > planning to run for core, I could get, say, 20 of my friends to all sign up > with Arabeyes and make a single CVS commit, and they would all vote for me in > the elections, and I would win even if everybody else hated me like poison. > > Thats not the worst part of it. The worst part is that soon you will have > "camps" budding up within Arabeyes. So you will have X and his buddies, Y and > his gang, and before you know it we're engaged in the pettiest (sp?) stupidest > bickering, much akin to parliments in the real Arab world I might add ;) > > I'm in favour of restrictions. Just a thought, > There are two things that can attempt to protect us from this. Note point 14 and point 17 in the election section [1]. [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/handbook/handbook-en/management.html#elections -- Regards ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.openius.com/| -------------------------------------------------------
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