Originally Posted by
Markie
I'd like to see the 2/3rds majority be abolished. It's frankly setting the bar too high for real change. Complaints that the TB does nothing, so often seen from the community, can in part be accounted for by the paralysis that the super majority creates. We are always acting in the most conservative, no change, way rather than being able to try a bold experiment and unpick it should it not work. It only needs two people to oppose any change for it not to pass, and that pretty much stifles any meaningful enhancements IMHO.
Disagree with this completely!
In the current session alone, there have been 13 motions, 12 of which have passed with a supermajority of at least 2/3rds. In the last TB session, there were 9 motions, 7 of which passes (and one of the ones that wasn't passed was passed shortly there after after a rewording of it). I don't hear a lot of complaints that the TalkBoard is doing nothing. I actually hear the opposite, both in the public forum and via PM and email and even in person at FT events.
Sure, there are a few people that gripe, but those are the generally same people that have been griping all 7+ years that I've been on FlyerTalk - the majority of feedback I've seen is generally positive.
2/3rds majority is a supermajority and a good thing, IMHO, as the changes being discussed, sometimes are small changes, but other times significant changes and I believe it's important to have a 2/3rds majority (whether or not we're counting the abstains) to pass something and make a change to FlyerTalk.