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HSN
Wed 7th Mar '07, 7:09am
Hi there..

I used to administer a cultural forum where many people used to come and discuss things. As we developed the forum, I formed an administrative council and selected people to come and discuss the ways in which we can bring more users, or any new ideas + moderation of fourms. There, we started having legilslation sessions for the forum to make rules and laws of writing threads blah blah...
After all these things, I suggested introducing a public election in the forum for formation of the administrative council with voting open for all members. Actually, many were against it but I could manage to aprove the idea. Then, we started election forum by forum and I ran also. It was really fun, a whole day for the election and competitions between members. But unfortunately, after the 3rd council formed as a result of an election, we ran into a political crisis :D. I was the chief executive and I closed one of the forums for some reason and that was the begining of the crisis. A hot and big discussion began in the administrative council which resulted in dissolution of the council by the higher manager. Then, we modified the laws and suspended the elections and formed an apointed council with new rules which is now under control :p

It was really a new idea for a forum. After that I saw a similar forum which announced elections for moderators of the forum to be selected by public vote. I wanted to share the idea here and see if anybody else has had such experience? ;)

HSN
Sun 13th May '07, 7:08am
Nobody?

Jose Amaral Rego
Sun 13th May '07, 7:30am
What..what..what did you say? Pardon I doze off after using spell check on your post.. http://www.canaryforum.com/forums/images/smilies/sleep.gifzzzzzz

Cromulent
Sun 13th May '07, 11:24am
Politics is always fun and does not need to be only in the domain of politicians. Sounds like the crisis was even more fun than running the forum :).

I would certainly look into this if I had a forum that warranted so many admins and moderators.

simsim
Sun 13th May '07, 2:41pm
Nice post. Probably you should have done it like this: forum members nominate (not elect) other members, then YOU (as the authoritative admin) decide who to take & who to not.

HSN
Sun 13th May '07, 4:55pm
Politics is always fun and does not need to be only in the domain of politicians. Sounds like the crisis was even more fun than running the forum :).

I would certainly look into this if I had a forum that warranted so many admins and moderators.
Yes, the crisis was really fun. You feel like you are really into politics.
At that time we didn't have a clear idea of how the forum should be administered. We should have kept an option for forum's manager to be able to dissolve the council in case of crisis and announce early elections to be held.

HSN
Sun 13th May '07, 4:56pm
Nice post. Probably you should have done it like this: forum members nominate (not elect) other members, then YOU (as the authoritative admin) decide who to take & who to not.
It's a nice idea but this way you don't get the challenge of elections and running for the posts.

HSN
Sun 13th May '07, 4:59pm
Currently I have divided the administration into two parts. First is a higher administration which takes the decisions and drafts laws to be issued by the manager. The other is the Moderators' council which is appointed by a super administrator which is also appointed by the manager.
My next democratic project is to call for elections for the super administrator's post which will form a moderation council.
How do you see the idea?