Poll? No Poll is necessary.
And tell me it didn't seriously cross anybody's mind to get rid of the club forums? Ridiculous and selfish. Did it happen to cross your mind that it will result in a mod being unemployed?
Nothing needs to be removed. The social groups provide occasional conveniences, even though it won't be major if they are removed. Still they are not causing any harm like the Rep system ages ago, so there is no advantages in removing them.
Technically, every decision made for any type of change in the community is made on a majority vote poll structure. Eventually, something tells me that there will be a poll about continuing social groups or removing them all together. But I agree 100% with not removing the fanclubs forums, considering Midori Chi does a very good job with keeping them clean, approving them, unapproving the ones she feels don't meet the requirements outlined and making sure they are orderly. I would never agree to putting her out of the job she's been in for, what? Five or so years now? That's ridiculous to me, and completely out of the options I'd like to see brought up to the table. I also agree that there's no harm in keeping them, despite them not being active. Still, it really wouldn't bother me for them to be removed for the same reason. But what Erik said in the post above is something that would make me somewhat hesitant on agreeing to nuke them.
But hey, before Lightning's post came in, I only thought of the poll. But once I saw Lightning's post... I realized there was no use for a poll, but I just didn't feel like editing my old post again anyways. And I do agree with you about not removing the forum, you're right... the moderator of that forum would lose their job for that forum. And besides that... I'm sure there's alot of posts in that forum that we don't wanna lose.
As far as social groups are concerned, Lightning posting doesn't mean that there wouldn't be a need for a poll. You seem to be under the impression that this forum is run entirely on one person's opinion and that is certainly not the case. "Eventually, something tells me that there will be a poll about continuing social groups or removing them all together." I do think you should consider holding your tongue before you say something like that, though, since you don't seem to really know how decisions and things are done. Not trying to scold you, but that was a highly ignorant statement.
I...actually wouldn't be opposed to the idea of having a community vote of whether to remove Social Groups or not.
Quoting this because I wouldn't be opposed to having the entire community deciding if they should stay. Ten bucks says most of the people who come to it don't even know what social groups are.
You've lost me there... I wasn't insinuating anything, if that's even what you thought? The higher staff here simply aren't very clear about how they work (perhaps rightly so), so people coming along and pointing out things they observed to be inconsistent shouldn't be surprising... I at least, do it to goad an explanation if anything. Thanks anyway, I guess, for a bit of insight.
I've always understood how higher staff worked, even when I wasn't on the staff at all. Simply put, an idea or problem gets posted, discussed, and ultimately voted on. The final decision, in any case, is the decision that has majority vote in HQ. Currently, that means that 6 out of the 11 higher staff members have agreed on something. To make sure things aren't moving too fast, a time limit of 48 hours (much like any big thing that happens, like taking a DLoA and leaving your position on the staff) passes and the majority vote is put into action. If it reaches 3/4ths of the higher staff vote, the 48 hour limit is null and void.
