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If this works, the process should stay boring. Boring gates are usually safer gates. Any review system should be quick enough that normal people do not lose interest before they arrive
that sounds about right to me. Make committee duty temporary or nobody sane will volunteer twice. Rotating volunteers seems healthier than one permanent person deciding who belongs.
I mean, maybe the committee can approve by majority and flag uncertain cases for a second trio. Member referrals are useful context, but requiring them would close the door to genuinely new people.
Applicants should be told why if they are declined. Rotating volunteers seems healthier than one permanent person deciding who belongs.
Yes, and tell applicants what the committee is looking for. Secret vibes are how little institutions become weird.
That is the part I agree with. A short conversation with three members might work for people without social accounts. Member referrals are useful context, but requiring them would close the door to genuinely new people.
The applicant choosing the public examples solves most of my privacy objection. We do not need to become amateur detectives. people should know the standard before they apply.
That sounds about right to me. Two approvals out of three might be enough.
Anyway: congratulations to everyone who dragged the furniture in. I’m looking forward to seeing which perfectly normal topic becomes a 140-reply argument by Friday.
Please make ‘enthusiastic’ optional. Some excellent people sound like tired librarians.
Invite-only would keep the noise down, but it would also turn us into a club that slowly forgets how new people arrive.
Try listening with one speaker or one headphone off if you can. It makes those little…
That’s such a good image, and now I want to hear that recording. I had the opposite once with a busker in Lisbon — thought it was all street drama, then one held note made the whole thing feel oddly private. Do you remember which Umm Kulthum performance it was?
I sort of disagree on the background-music bit. Fairuz can absolutely work that way for me, but only because the song is already so full of…
Have you heard anything by Ziad Rahbani, or is that too obvious? I always think he’s good for this sort of thing because the tune can sound breezy and then the harmonies start doing weird little side-eyes.
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