Opening up Discussion on Hosting Guidelines

[Old and In the Way]

1. Group membership is a vexing issue, given current software limitations.

Here's what I posted with regards to that issue-

Who gets to determine initial group membership?

1. Any registered person on DU?
2. Any current member of the Group?
3. Any current member of the Group before _______?

If the answer is 2. or 3., how does one determine this? At the very least, we would need some programming changes that shows member name and date of subscription/deletion.

Personally, I think 1. is the only workable solution. If the majority agreed on this, then you could vote on something like: "As of {future date}, only members of this Group will determine rules of the Group." And then proceed to issues such has host selection, SoP, etc.

On edit #2. Because this is a meta question, it should be open to all DUers...everyone has a vested interest in determining the starting point of what constitutes a legit definition of group membership. You could narrow it down to FG only, but by keeping it global, I think this question easily passes. However, the fundamental issue of knowing who is a member can only be determined if there is a common reference that shows who is in the Group. So, I still think either the administrators need to program this feature into DU or we have to accept that fact that anyone can vote on any poll that effects the operational aspects of a particular group.

So, based on how DU3 works now, I don't think there's any real option other than allow anyone to vote on any issue that may be put up for vote in a Group thread. I probably wouldn't if it didn't interest me or, if it did and group membership was requested, I could subscribe on the spot.