I submit that you're confusing "formal mechanism" and/or "transparent mechanism" with "mechanism".

Things happen. Things happen for reasons that are not always obvious or explained to everyone. The Monastery as a whole accepts or does not accept those things for reasons that are likewise opaque. I expect nothing else from an ad hoc system. Part of being ad hoc is that there aren't clearly defined and explained rules by which important things happen. The reasoning is inherent in the group dynamics (which are largely social).

You obviously would prefer that things happen for reasons that are obvious and clear, and likewise would prefer it if the community had an obvious way of providing tangible feedback. Clearly this would be a different state of affairs than the current one. However this doesn't mean that what exists right now is not a de facto mechanism.

In reply to Re^8: Musing on Monastery Content by tilly
in thread Musing on Monastery Content by Old_Gray_Bear

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