Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
...I had been clearly in favor of this motion until I started thinking about some of the arguments posted more recently in this TBT thread and then proceeded to re-read the motion once again very carefully and think about it. Now I'm not so sure because this change to the TB guidelines won't necessarily prevent what happened with the general rental cars motion.
Good grief! What did happen with the general rental cars motion? (Or maybe, "What do you think happened?") The drafters forgot to change a "five" to "four," so I changed it. Uh, was there something wrong with that? Should we have revoted the motion? I don't understand the complaint. Maybe I'm just stupid.
And then, six of us agreed to add an additional provision to the motion. That's
six votes, enough to pass a completely new motion! Rather than turn one motion into two, we added the provision to the motion already under consideration. If that's some kind of abuse, then I'm having real trouble seeing it. Again, maybe I'm just stupid.
A number of people reasonably objected to the ad hoc way that we proceeded on the rental cars motion, so
nsx drafted a perfect procedure to formalize the process. Now that's a problem, too, apparently. Better to vote the motion down and start over again, I suppose?
I wonder if we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. No matter what we do, there will be people standing ready to criticize. So be it.
Bruce