[rpd] RPD Digest, Vol 222, Issue 189

[Nonjabulo Sphilile]

Hi All,

I support Nonhlanhla’s position.

The real risk is not only excessive traffic. It is allowing a long-standing
circle to treat unfamiliar contributors as outsiders whose participation is
conditional.

The RPD list has dealt with sudden increases in new subscribers before. The
answer was to distinguish numerical processes, such as elections, from
policy discussion, where the argument matters more than the age or
familiarity of the account.

The co-chairs can manage volume, group repeated points, and act against
genuine disruption. None of that requires blocking new participants or
treating subscription history as a credential.

An open PDP should not develop an inner room for recognised names and an
outer room for everyone else. Community participation provides evidence and
scrutiny; it does not give regular participants ownership of the forum.

Regards,
Nonjabulo
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