RE: The State of Steem Forums : what comes next, do we need committees?
I like the pointed way, you articulate the challenge, Steem community faces when introducing commitees.
In the decentralised, anarcho-capitalist, code is law world of steem the prospect of forming universally acceptable, centralised, decision making committees will be a challenge of the first order.
If you exchange "universally acceptable" by "broadly tolerable", "centralised" by "spontaneously evolving and cristallizing around common questions" and "decision making" by "joining forces voluntarily in a coordinated way" - this could work.
Checking scientific work on social policies for "democratic network governance" could be helpful.
Saying this, a committee explicitly dealing with governance issues, would probably make a lot of sense. This should not be just happening but be reflected regularly.
So much for today. Off to Christmas. Have a great time everybody!
Yes those phrase swaps could make it work...
I am wondering if Working Groups would be a better term than Committees?
Working Group is going to garner much more support (Ahhh, the psychology of titles and names!)
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An alternative could be focus group or circle/network. We'd need something that doesn't lead to the impression that there is a need of a formal mandate for co-creation.
Task force or work groups. These are not committees. Committees implies centralised decision making and we are all hear to avoid that. No leaders. Only watering holes for solutions, idea generation and to reduce the amount of repeated work and increase the amount of self organisation, resource sharing and cooperation
Great words!!