"George Herbert" wrote

Can you remind us how active/inactive membership is counted, and what the effects on a voting plurality are depending on how many people are actually responsive out of the total?

There are rules. I'm the ranking mathematician on the AC, which probably explains why I can't remember them.

How bad is it for moving forwards if arbcom members are functionally inactive? Is it then just an issue of bandwidth, or do you have to spur some of the inactive ones to participate to get proposed decisions voted out and official?

There are naggers and naggees. It comes down to saying that with fewer bodies, cases are decided more slowly, and with a smaller subset of approaches.

The preparation of cases is the worst part, undoubtedly, and requires experience (more than I have). The list of 'principles' is ever-expanding, but we still need more, and some cases are marathons.

Charles

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