Resolution 2006/37: Concerning Inactivity of Some New Members

OP

I've added the poll :smile:

Reply 42

Knogle

16

Looks like I didn't make it in time to cast my vote... not like it would have mattered in this case anyway. :wink:

Reply 43

OP

Huzzah! (Or Chinese equivalent)

Reply 44

The timing of this is poor. You're throwing this out at a time that is the end of the semester for many Unis. IE it's finals week for a lot of people. Making sure that you score well on your final exams > MUN for a few days. There are two times a year students focus more on school than usual. I don't like the placement of this resolution at all, and if voting weren't closed, I'd vote no.

Reply 45

OP

Surely if they plan to not be very active in the forum because of exams, they shouldn't bother joining during exams in the first place? This is only over a two week period after all.

Passed to the SC

OP

I thought we agreed for admin resolutions to bypass the SC?

Reply 48

Nefarious

16

Nightowl

I thought we agreed for admin resolutions to bypass the SC?

Good point, ah well looks like it's passed full stop then :frown:

Reply 49

Nightowl

Surely if they plan to not be very active in the forum because of exams, they shouldn't bother joining during exams in the first place? This is only over a two week period after all.

It's it only two weeks, then wait to vote on the resolution until after finals week when more members have less responsibility. After all, the premise of this foundation is a place for students (Student Room). Why would we discourage the focus of attention on finals? I have no problem with the proposal, but rather it's timing.

Reply 50

OP

But it doesn't affect people who are already members and have an exams week, if a student is joining here at all its best they join when they have less on their plate in the first place anyway.

Reply 51

It doesn't affect people who are already memeber because no one is gunning for them. If you take an absence for a week or so, people might raise an eyebrow, thought I doubt it, but no one is going to propose that you be removed from the MUN.

Reply 52

Craghyrax

17

Rusty33

It's it only two weeks, then wait to vote on the resolution until after finals week when more members have less responsibility. After all, the premise of this foundation is a place for students (Student Room). Why would we discourage the focus of attention on finals? I have no problem with the proposal, but rather it's timing.

Yeh, ok, but there's a very obvious Absence Thread, and in such situations, a person could simply post a note saying that they're likely to be minimally active between such and such times.
At least this gives the impression that they take their position in the MUN seriously, and that they are aware of their responsibility and the implications of their absence.

When I first joined the MUN it was very obvious, just by taking a brief glance at various threads/comments, that there was a level of commitment expected. I don't think new people would struggle to latch onto this.

Reply 53