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Originally Posted by Praesul  Are you serious..? | I have to ask the same of you: have you heard of any other awards judging panel that publishes every syllable of its internal discourse? Name one awards organization in the entire world that has decided your idea of how deliberation should be run is a good idea. Quote: |
Telling people to mind their own business does not build that trust. I, for one, continue to disregard most awards like these. They are as objective as political endorsements and negligibly more useful.
| You know what builds trust in an elected body?
(a) Open elections
(b) Good decision-making
We have both with the ENnies. Insisting that every single post in the ENnies judging and policy formation forums be written for public consumption will just create more work for the judges and drive the real decision-making underground into PMs and e-mails.
Look at the elected bodies in the real world where all statements are made for public consumption, places like Congress. Where does actual policy get formed? Certainly not on the floor of the chamber -- it gets formed in caucuses and in closed negotiating sessions. Processes of persuasion, deliberation and negotiation never take place in full daylight; that's not how human beings work.
The best way to achieve transparency is through an open election process that produces a diversity of representatives coming from a variety of positions and backgrounds.
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A Fusangite
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“one must depart from the province of Lean-tong, north of Peking and that after travelling 12,000 li, the traveller would reach Japan, and thence to the north, after a journey of 7000 li, arrive at the country of Wen-Schin (the painted people). Five thousand li from this country towards the east is Tahan, which is 20,000 li from Fusang.”
-- A 6th century account of Fusang, the country across the Pacific from China. | 
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