For as long as I can remember the general populace of the Clock Crew has been ignorant of the happenings of the Grid. Sometimes, this is with good reason, to keep a surprise under wraps or discuss something that could become explosive if it got out to the public at the moment. Much of the time, though, there's really no reason why the community shouldn't be able to see what's going on in there. Transparency is good. If we're electing staff, we ought tto have our own sort of CSPAN, so I propose the following.
Threads in the Grid, after a period of time, are moved to a Public Grid Archive visible to all members. Certain threads, like secret planning of things like an April Fool's joke or something similar that the staff wants to spring on everyone as a surprise, can be categorized as Secret and are exempt from being moved to the Public Archive. This is done by a staff vote in which a 2/3 majority is required to keep it hidden (in order to avoid factionalization and hiding of sensitive threads within the staff). The specific period, being being between perhaps 2 weeks and a month or so (to be determined by the staff at their convenience), once the activity of the thread is over and any other concerns are out of the way.
Yea or Nay?
Also anyone who votes impulsively on this one way or another I swear to fuck I will come to your house and sell your kidneys to the Mexican drug cartels. Let the arguments play out for a little bit. We got two weeks to decide on these things folks.
Quote from: AbsintheClock;1861160Because everyone will find out what an asshole he is.
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can you just, like, keep the grid closed but release a volume of my posts every month? make it a big event.
Would having a second, more clandestine grid promote transparency, or would it just be where all the threads went? I proposed having a waiting period because it would be better for people to see whole conversations than to pop in from time to time and view parts of them while they're actually happening. It would limit jumping to conclusions in favor of viewing the totality of the discussion.
As far as voting on things goes, the only time the staff has to vote is to make something secret, and it's a 2/3 vote rather than a simple majority so a small faction can't just go removing things from the public record. I would hope every thread doesn't need to have someone coming forward and insisting on a secrecy vote, because most threads shouldn't have to be secret.
If we're electing staff members, people need to know what those members are contributing to the staff. That's not going to happen if they hide their opinions from everyone. If you don't have the confidence to make your argument publicly, maybe you shouldn't be making it at all.
i voted yes because i think a lot of people (me included) would like to see what you guys are doing and what you are discussing
I voted yes because I do agree with need to have some amount of what goes on in the grid public. Gotta know what the guys you voted for are doing.
I also agree that we should do a system other than just putting every thread out to the public because, as Renegade said, the staff would probably end up watching not being totally honest about their opinions since they know everyone will see what they're saying eventually.
Really it's a dodgy issue. I voted yes because I do want some accountability but I don't think we should go about it the way suggested.
If we declassify the grid I want the entire history of the grid on display. Not just the threads made recently.
I voted no for the reasons Renegade stated (via White). If I am a staff member and we're voting on a contest, or evaluating people for position, or discussing specific members for whatever reason, I would want to feel free to voice my opinion about them without knowing that they may be offended by them at some point in the near future.
Even if I was saying something that a third party might not see as offensive, the person in question could still be hurt by it. Example: We're discussing adding a new mod and I say "Sage is an alright guy and all, but I don't think he posts enough." That's not very offensive, especially if it's true, but Sage might still feel bad that I didn't stick up for him and his abilities. I've never been the kind of person who likes to make people feel bad, so knowing that my opinion would later become public I'd be far less inclined to share my true feelings.
And I don't necessarily believe that just because I have that opinion means that I should want it to be public. I may, yes. There may be an open discussion about the candidates in which I say "Sage doesn't post enough." But that's my decision to post that. If there is no staff forum to discuss things more openly in, I would just keep all of my opinions to myself and only contribute by voting on a poll.
And, finally, I really don't see what would be so pressing or valuable about it other than to satisfy curiosity. There isn't some terribly important and urgent event happening that requires such transparency.
I don't need to see it, feel free to talk about me behind my back whenever you want in there.
I voted No. But I assume people who never had grid access will just vote yes and itll pass anyway
Despite my longstanding desire to see what goes on in the grid, I side with the ideology that complete transparency would not do good things for the group.
Voted no. Keep the Grid as is.
People aren't jumping on every single thing the staff does, Corpsegrinder, they're jumping on most of the things you do.
Albino, come on.
I voted yes but on second thought I'm not that crazy about it now. The grid is private for a reason, and even if time passes, these topics should be kept private.
What I don't understand though is how often I hear people talk about grid access that are not on the staff. What is that about?
I've been criticized, and I've also gotten complaints about other staff members too. The more stuff you do as a staff member the more folks are going to take issue with you.
I agree that the grid should not be public and should be only be accessed by moderators, administration and advisors. If there were to be complete access to the grid, there is a good chance it would backfire. This could easily open the door for more possible infighting, nitpicking and backseat modding. In the end, instead of more transparency, the decisions would be made through other modes of communication.
The cc has already come a long way in terms of electing moderators and being more opened with changes and this policy forum. None of this was around back in the original .com or .cc. I'd rather work hard, be more of a forum regular and contribute more to the site in order to have access to the grid.
For the Grid to go public (even if view only) would defeat the point of the Grid. Wouldn't it?
Yeah why didn't you Slurpee I'm pretty disappointed and have half a mind not to vote for you come next election.
I'll just go ask piney to push the big red button that makes these thing happen
everybody be sure to thank ankh for this great idea
pineappleclock has informed me that there is not, in fact, a big red button that, when pushed, implements site features
I still have much to learn