Re: On being public (Was: Call for Nominees)

[Leslie Daigle <leslie at thinkingcat.com>]

Exactly.  Nicely articulated.

Leslie.


Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:29:53AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote:
> 
>> If a candidate wishes to encourage openness and encourage a broader
>> base of input to Nomcom, they can and should disclose their
>> candidacy.  Nomcom will benefit from having better information, for
>> the candidates who choose to publicly disclose their candidacy,
>> because more people will know that comments on a particular
>> candidate are needed.
> 
> I had exactly the opposite reaction to Leslie Daigle's remark.  If
> people start declaring, then I expect that over time, people who
> declare will be more likely to be selected than people who don't.
> This is because the Nomcom will get more feedback about the
> "declareds" than about the "undeclareds".  I imagine that Nomcom
> members will naturally tend to prefer those candidates about whom they
> have the most information. 
> 
> So the practice of declaring by even a significant minority will
> naturally tend to mean that all aspirants have to declare, or give up
> their aspirations.
> 
> I don't know whether this would be a good or bad thing, but I don't
> think we should dismiss the observation that changing the rules, even
> informally, changes the rules for everyone.
> 
> A
> 

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