Re: [gentoo-project] Questioning/Interviewing council nominees

[Rich Freeman <rich@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> Why not do it this way: We set up one thread (easily filtered for
>> those who wish to do so) with the Subject "Questions for
>> Candidates." Anybody who cares can pose a question with context if
>> you must (questions preferred over speeches). Then let candidates
>> just edit their manifestos addressing whatever questions they care
>> to answer. If somebody has a neurotic need to keep their personal
>> version of the score by all means post a table somewhere and
>> announce it once, but we don't need a running commentary - this
>> isn't politico.
>
> This won't work, because not all candidates will have a manifesto.
>

Then they can do a one-time post with answers to whatever questions
they want, or ignore them altogether.  Same thing as a manifesto,
really (just a statement of what they're about).

The essence is separate the questions and the answers so that
candidates can just review a list of questions, and voters can just
read at most one concise statement per candidate, rather than a
back-and-forth thread.

Seems to be doing fine so-far...

Rich