Mic Check: Bulletin Board - Most Recent 2 Versions of Draft hosting guidelines (read at yr leisure)

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6. If there's no host then

There's no need for group standards and procedure? The above document would be all about using hosts as facilitators, within the context of a GA system.

Now, we could do a GA / mic check system without hosts, but the problem is, it seems to me that some of the people who have suggested no hosts would not want to do a mic check / GA and would just prefer it to be a place for posting news alerts. Given that, this forum would remain wide open to criticism of Occupy and group membership would include a large percentage of Occu~skeptics seeking to debate the merits of Occupy (like the host of Peak Oil Group who noted that POG's SoP did not prohibit Peak Oil skeptics from hosting the group), and would just be an adjunct news feed for the existing tenor of Occupy discussion on GD (which is what concerned the folks who asked us to set up this forum, and I mean this was a deep concern from some folks who are now here). Aside from that issue, however, I am one who would support trying to follow innovative arrangements such as mic check, GA consensus and pinned threads that would not be possible without hosts unless the board had a culture substantially distinct from the current state of Occupy discussion on GD. If the folks who want no hosts feel that it's possible to push for General Assembly style practices (in keeping with the SoP) in the absence of hosts let me know.