Compared to what might happen these days, we lucked out in that everyone
who volunteered was a reasonable candidate (in fact, myself and the two
others mutually decided not to post "campaign statements", but a joint
statement in the ballot that we all felt any one of us would be a good
FAQkeeper, and people could decide based on our posting history) and that
we felt that even if not, a truly bad candidate wouldn't be elected. This
is also how we handled moving from the first moderator of our .info group
to the second, and once again all of the candidates were qualified ones.
We've also handled the turning over of our annual Awards this way, and the
one time someone unsuitable ran, they literally finished with negative votes
(ranked with a MAXINT, below write-ins for Hitler, etc. Basically, a majority
of voters included a spontaneous write-in indication on their ballot that
they'd rather have the awards cancelled than let that candidate run them).
Although, speaking as an Interleaf employee, I could live with Bob just
letting the comp.text.frame FAQ die when he gives it up. :-)
tyg tyg@hq.ileaf.com
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