A community where several people compete to be the first one to post a regularly occurring thread sounds much more robust to me than a community that relies on just one person (who may become unexpectedly unavailable) to do it.
I think the fact that you say Clarity is ‘farming for karma’ - without any evidence for this claim—may give away what the real problem is.
Anyway, if the issue is just time zones, I’d be fine with, say, agreeing on UT 00:00 Monday for starting an open thread. Or maybe it would just be simpler to have a bot start the thread.
I think the fact that you say Clarity is ‘farming for karma’
I didn’t. I said that not downvoting threads that created in this way allows people to predictably create threads like this to raise their karma score. That’s distinct from the actual motivations in this case.
Again, why does MrMind have that ‘role’?
He had it in the past and the system worked. There no need for change. Especially not without previous discussion.
MrMind’s “position” was not usurped for the simple reason that there was never any such “position” in the first place. Anyone can create an open thread on LW if they do it before anyone else does; in this case, Clarity was the one who created the thread first. Downvoting the thread simply because it wasn’t opened by your “preferred” poster is both petty and impolite. It’s not like it really matters who posts the thread anyway, and there are far easier (and less ethical) ways to get karma than posting an open thread.
I remember another person asking whether he can overtake posting the open thread.
A community where people don’t try to farm karma by overtaking the roles of other people without asking that person beforehand.
A community where several people compete to be the first one to post a regularly occurring thread sounds much more robust to me than a community that relies on just one person (who may become unexpectedly unavailable) to do it.
Again, why does MrMind have that ‘role’?
I think the fact that you say Clarity is ‘farming for karma’ - without any evidence for this claim—may give away what the real problem is.
Anyway, if the issue is just time zones, I’d be fine with, say, agreeing on UT 00:00 Monday for starting an open thread. Or maybe it would just be simpler to have a bot start the thread.
I didn’t. I said that not downvoting threads that created in this way allows people to predictably create threads like this to raise their karma score. That’s distinct from the actual motivations in this case.
He had it in the past and the system worked. There no need for change. Especially not without previous discussion.
MrMind’s “position” was not usurped for the simple reason that there was never any such “position” in the first place. Anyone can create an open thread on LW if they do it before anyone else does; in this case, Clarity was the one who created the thread first. Downvoting the thread simply because it wasn’t opened by your “preferred” poster is both petty and impolite. It’s not like it really matters who posts the thread anyway, and there are far easier (and less ethical) ways to get karma than posting an open thread.