in this thread Tom mentioned enspiral as a model to remove the need for a management handbook/manual. Having combed through the enspiral website I cant find any justification for this position. They are big on clear communication and accountability https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/how-to-create-powerful-accountability-questions-for-self-management-605c90f260a2 and have a handbook so everyone knows what is expected and where they stand. I cant understand the magical thinking that resulted in this proposal failing. Tom are you proposing we just adopt the enspiral handbook? Please explain why you think enspiral can avoid getting us to document our procedures for interacting and making decisions? I like their handbook https://handbook.enspiral.com/ and also their method for continually improving it. But it isn't a substitute for what Sam is working on. There is also a thing happening I have noticed that if someone abstains or disagrees with a proposal early in a vote others don't bother voting. I'm presuming its because they then assume that the vote is lost as no consensus so why bother. This is not good faith participatory democracy but puts forward the idea that their ideas wont make a difference so leads to apathy on a vote. If this is the case then I think we must change the way voting works from consensus to just a straight 75% of a quorum and treat an abstention as an indication that someone doesn’t want their vote to be considered as part of the quorum count. That is an abstention says count me out, I don't want to be considered a member for this vote.

So, the task did have a thread attached to it- this one. I created it in there because I felt it was a decision relating to task workflows & procedures. It occurs to me that this situation is what the "fork" feature is for- the appropriate course of action would have been to fork the decision and relevant posts off into their own thread if you felt they needed to be discussed in-depth separately to the main line of discussion.

FYI I just linked the proposal in question to your original post since it was not at all clear what you were talking about and somewhat difficult to find.

Now we have a thread about creating a management manual which has a completely unrelated decision in it, but it's a process I already covered in the management manual so I guess that's ok. Shall we move on to the issue at hand?

I agree with what @deancameron is saying about voting quorums & abstaining above but I am going to put that decision in the correct thread rather than here as it has nothing to do with the management manual.

FYI I am going to go ahead with updating this document for Slack and log hours against it in the token tracking sheet. We can figure out what that means in terms of share structures & work categories later.