SR - A Question Concern

[j'lynn yeates]

On 23 Jun 98, at 19:03, Donal & Sosha wrote:
 
> Again, I disagree. The polling will be taken from paid members, it is
> people who care enough to be paid members who should have the most say.

ther are a great many people - many long term participants - who have valid reasons 
for not being paying members ... are you saying that their opinions are any less valid 
than a paid member?  this kind of statement implies that money buy's you the right to 
have a valid opinion in the future and that there are two claases - paying and non-
paying.  last i looked the SCA did not support such a caste system ...  is it any 
wonder why so many turn away from the SCA these days?

the principality issue is primarily about drawing together and building a regional 
identity... starting off with such arbitrary and unreasonable distinctions does nothing for 
that cause .. though it seriously aids the opposition in trying to fracture the momentum 
forward.

> The problem lies with discussion of this issue occuring primarily on
> the Web. We've been through this before, I am not in favor of such
> discussion being curtailed, but the info should be more widely
> disseminated in RT. Personally, I think that the people who propose
> such a major change in structure should have the courtesy to make sure the
> local nobles have such information.

it was my understanding that while the initial conversation started here, it has since 
flowed out to the non-web enabled via the normal information channels ... if the 
information is not flowing as well off web as on, then i would suggest that efforts be 
made to either improve the off-web information flow ... or to draw more people into the 
on-web flow.

personally, i think this is more a "peoples issue" than a "nobles issue", if the nobles 
you mentioned are interested they are more than welcome to join the discussions .. 
but the discussion should not be limited because they choose not to join in, our don't 
want to particupate in a particular venue ... seems i see a fairly large peer level online, 
are they not talking to their offline brethren?  i'm sure those nobles are well informed 
about the discussions, the meetings, everything relevent to the issue ....

always remember ... the SCA is primarily about the *populace* as a whole ... 
neophyte, peer, whatever ... it is not about any particular social or political class ...

'wolf
  

... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
============================================================================
Go to http://lists.ansteorra.org/lists.html to perform mailing list tasks.