CTS: Being Wraith #4
May. 3rd, 2006 02:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackFirstly, much sympathy to ill and busy people who weren't able to come. But CTS was good! I wasn't sure about the topic, but as I hoped it provoked much interesting debate from all directions.
We were being quiet for the benefit of revisors, and the speaking object actually worked. The only way to guarantee attention was to whisper but with a commmittee member maintaining the order to pass it in people were good at making points and passing on and not being talked over. I think having one person controlling it is what is often missing, also the extra reason not to talk loudly.
Refinements I'm not sure if we need:
* A way to request and be granted short interjections without just coming out with them to offer a reasonable number of jokes and factual corrections.
* A way to maintain the "next" order. Have a chairman watching, or ask each person to note the first person to wave after they do.
* A way to get quiet people to talk. Obviously, many people just normally don't have anything to say, and when they do say it, but I'm sure there are *sometimes* people who would say something but get ridden past by the discussion.
And then we went to the pub, which was nice. There was quite a good turnout -- we don't have many new members at all, but the current crowd is quite good at turning up to places at the moment.
We were being quiet for the benefit of revisors, and the speaking object actually worked. The only way to guarantee attention was to whisper but with a commmittee member maintaining the order to pass it in people were good at making points and passing on and not being talked over. I think having one person controlling it is what is often missing, also the extra reason not to talk loudly.
Refinements I'm not sure if we need:
* A way to request and be granted short interjections without just coming out with them to offer a reasonable number of jokes and factual corrections.
* A way to maintain the "next" order. Have a chairman watching, or ask each person to note the first person to wave after they do.
* A way to get quiet people to talk. Obviously, many people just normally don't have anything to say, and when they do say it, but I'm sure there are *sometimes* people who would say something but get ridden past by the discussion.
And then we went to the pub, which was nice. There was quite a good turnout -- we don't have many new members at all, but the current crowd is quite good at turning up to places at the moment.
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Date: 2006-05-04 05:25 pm (UTC)Usually people do take acocunt of this, don't they? Or has order broken down recently? I mean, usually at debates, someone speaks and keeps in mind the first person who put their hand up. And if someone starts to hog, the Steward can restore order. Theoretically anyway :)
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Date: 2006-05-05 01:00 am (UTC)Also, the Steward isn't always necessarily here or running the meeting, you may end up with a staring war between seccy, treasurer and stewardelect to see who controls. Not that we did that. No, really, we actually didn't at all :)