clayniac

Thanks for the replies. This is merely a suggestion for input. I am awed by Fred and others who run bbo replying. Thank you! Thanks for your most astute comments, Fred. Perhaps, as a compromise to the nay sayers to this suggestion and to those who like it, Frosy offers a viable and reasonable alternative. I only proposed an election so that all players would feel they had input on who serves on this group and thus feel that their voices were heard through this group. We will see how others feel. Then it will be up to the administrators of BBO to decide if or when to implement such a group, and if implemented how and in what form. Thanks again. I will continue to check the replies every few days at least. Patsy

Okay. If the reaction to this suggestion is negative, then that is fine. I just wanted to get feedback. Thanks for your input people! I totally respect your opinions. Will see what continued replies say. Drop the idea if this opinion is the prevalent one. Thanks again for your feedback! Patsy aka clayniac

Meant to say voting would be for a certain time period, perhaps for a month, with a beginning and ending date to vote. The only real problem I see with this is in preventing the same person from voting more than once. I leave that to the technical and computer geniuses to handle. Patsy aka clayniac

I have suggested there be a committee of "laymen" players who regulary use BBO. I was advised to post this idea here. I would like feedback please. The purpose of this group would be to offer suggestions to the BBO management and yellows and to discuss matters that arise on BBO with recommendations to BBO management and yellows. This committee would be for suggestions and ideas and to discuss matters of interest that come up from the players' viewpoints. The main purpose of this committee would NOT be to mediate problems; hopefully those would be rare occurrences. However, certainly this committee could tackle problems as well and make suggestions and offer solutions to these problems to BBO management and "yellows." The whole idea is to discuss BBO from the players' viewpoints, offering ideas, suggestions and solutions to problems. I see this as perhaps a group of 15, moderated by "yellows." (Perhaps "yellows" could rotate moderating this group; but the same "yellow" should moderate continued discussions about any one topic, idea, suggestion or problem.) I suggest a committee of 15, with no more than 3 people from any one country on this committee, with the official language of disucssion English. Terms would be for one year; and no one could serve more than three consecutive years. Meetings would best be weekends to accommodate the many time zones and would take place in a bbo chat room of the "explore bridge" section of BBO. I suggest selection be by nomination and petition, with a minimum of x number of names from BBO players on a petition. There could be a url for submission of petitions and for people to sign the petitions supporting a candidate. Perhaps 25 names would be a suitable minimum number per petition. Then there would be a url for people to go to for voting on a specified date. Players can only vote once (even if they have multiple user names, they can only vote once), and they can vote for up to 15 people (but do not have to vote for 15), but they cannot vote for more than 3 from any one country. The top 15 vote-getters would be elected to a one-year term of this committee. If more than 3 of the top 15 vote getters are from any one country, then just go down the list by number of votes to get 15 elected with a maximum of 3 from any one country. Each candidate's name would have his or her country with it. And there would have to be a method of control to make sure no one votes more than once, no matter how many user names they have. This is something for technically sophisticated people to control. FEEDBACK PLEASE! Remember the whole purpose of this is for laymen's viewpoints of the players. Patsy aka "clayniac"

I humbly suggest that BBO consider a panel made up of regular players who are not "yellow people" and not directors to discuss topics that come up with the "yellows" and with the directors. These topics can be suggestions, problems, situations and so forth that arise. The members of this panel could be suggested by the "yellows" and/or suggested by other players with an announcement here in the forum and/or on bbo chat. Players could elect the members of the panel here on the fourm with messages left on bbo mail for all players to first suggest players for this panel and then maybe a month later to vote for the players whom they wish to be on the panel. I think a bbo players' panel would be a nice idea, and it would make the players feel that bbo is inclusive and would make the players feel like they have a voice in how bbo operates. Feedback on this idea would be most appreciated. Please post here or e-mail me with your reactions to this suggestion. Thank you. Patsy "clayniac" Parker blue_april49@hotmail.com