[Nomic] Votes

[Adam Biltcliffe]

On Sep 28 2004, Mike Cripps wrote:

> You say Tomato and I say Tomato
> There shall be a "Minister for Clarity" who shall be in charge of 
> vetting all words proposed for submission to the dictionary.  The 
> Minister of Clarity shall be responsible for keeping the dictionary up 
> to date, and may define the exact process for adding words to the 
> dictionary. However, the Minister for Clarity shall not be permitted to 
> propose any word for addition to the dictionary (to prevent abuse).

I'm not sure I understand why it's necessary to have someone personally vet 
dictionary submissions, and I'm not very keen to see the ability to decide 
the process for adding words to the dictionary given solely to one person 
with no outside influence. Mike, any particular reason to do things this 
way?

adam