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Bolo Boffin

(23,796 posts)
6. The number one host can retire.
Mon Dec 12, 2011, 10:15 PM
Dec 2011

The list of hosts on the About This Group page has for the hosts a button. The number one host has Retire next to his or her name and Remove next to everyone else's.

Using the model of the U.S. Presidential election, if we choose six hosts every 90 days, that is literally all we will ever do. That's why I think it should just be a switch of the top job, with the "retiree" either being immediately reappointed (and thus being at the bottom of the list) or a successor chosen. That's something that should be up to the retiring Host.

I don't think there's any way to give greater weight to the vocal poster or lesser to the six-year-never-posting account that suddenly pipes up. I think mandating an even split will be the only guard needed to balance this out. The hosts will have to be known quantities. No buffaloing the Judiciary Committee here.

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