Originally Posted by
NickB
I am not sure that you have really thought this through. Imagine the situation where a TB member cannot participate in a particular vote for good reasons. Then comes another vote in which the same TB member abstains. The motion is defeated but comes back immediately after with a slightly different wording. As far as that TB member is concerned, that motion is essentially the same and (s)he abstains again. You therefore have three votes in which the TB member has not voted. This is hardly an outlandish example and it certainly does not show a clear case of dereliction of duty.
I have thought this through.
Missing 3 votes does not mean automatic removal. It means that the member may be removed. I doubt in the example you've provided that such a removal would be acted upon.
I realize that there are many wild conspiracy theories afloat where TalkBoard members conspire to remove other TalkBoard members they don't like. In practice, they're fiction and I can't see any reasonable TalkBoard acting in such a manner. Other FlyerTalkers may feel differently, but I'm not going to accept wild conspiracy theories as a valid reason to change the way we tabulate votes.