Arguments against the ballot measure have been included in a collapsible section of today’s meeting notes.
Because this thread is a discussion venue, unlike the notes thread for which replying is disabled, I will include these arguments here in full to save you all a few clicks:
@Ericson2314 :
I wish for forced resignations, votes of no-confidence, and terms forced to end early to be reserved for serious accusations of very inappropriate behavior, where the community at least agrees on what the accusations are / what the problem is. While many community members are currently upset, I believe there is great variety in what those community members are upset about, and thus we do not have that consensus, and that threshold is not met.
If we nonetheless employ these extra-constitutional measures without meeting that threshold, I believe this will have a very strong chilling effect on future steering committees, and that would be quite bad for the health of the project. We arrived on our constitution because of widespread agreement that we had a “leadership vacuum”. If future SCs are scared of forced resignations, votes of no-confidence, and terms forced to end early, they will be quite timid, and we will still have a leadership vacuum.
@roberth : Other attributes of referendums may also be undesirable, particularly in the light of our Stable Evolution value
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