What about a limit on how long Hosts can serve? and other matters

[Bolo Boffin]

I'd like to propose a couple of ideas about how permanent hosts could be handled here in Creative Speculation.

One is that they are by group consensus NOT permanent. I would suggest the forum host 90-day limit as a starting place, but I already think this group can get fractious enough. Choosing hosts every 90 days would really turn this group into 24/7 Bicker House. So perhaps six months?

Would we have an agreed upon number of hosts? I think SidDithers suggested six in another thread, like the DU juries. But finding six hosts that everyone could live with or at least keep the dissent down to a low grumble might prove a challenge the first time. Doing it every 90 days or every six months? Ay yi yi.

So perhaps my second idea would be better: instead of requiring that all hosts step down after a certain amount of time, we could require that the number one spot shift "parties", as it were. If the number one spot is occupied by a free-thinker (as used by our Statement of Purpose), then after 90 days that person retires and hands the spot over to a skeptic. 90 days later, the skeptic steps down and gives the spot to a free-thinker. Comity could be reinforced by the retiree being immediately reinstated by a host (unless the retiree was truly ready to retire, etc.).

Thoughts on this? Other suggestions?