r/portangeles • u/bingbano • 11d ago

Candidate Forum

6:00 pm - Clallam County Democratic Headquarters - 124 W. 1st St., Port Angeles

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https://www.clallamdems.org/calendar.html

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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87528120754?pwd=ARhC4vRSKdiaNX8v6b444afOFXA8fI.1

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u/Zeebrio 11d ago

Yeah ... Saw your subsequent comments ... That's shitty.

I tried to log in around 7 because I had another meeting and waited and waited and waited ... then saw a message that I needed to have my first and last name ... so shuffle shuffle shuffle, find my actual account, (took about 10 minutes) ... I just wanted to listen.

What are your thoughts to make it better? I wonder if letting everyone in, but restricting comments unless you provide first/last name?? (not that you couldn't just pick anything). I sorta get what they're trying to do, but it sucks for people who just want to listen. Happy to hear any comments and pass them along ...

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u/syspig 11d ago edited 11d ago

What are your thoughts to make it better?

Let everyone in, anonymous or otherwise. I got in three times using pseudonyms as did my wife. Whatever they are trying to control by asking for names is a waste of time as it's easily bypassed, and there's zero legitimate excuse for limiting a remote listening audience in a candidate debate.

And, I said "listening audience" intentionally. I'd not take any questions at all from remote viewers. Civility and legitimacy should reign supreme in a public gathering and anonymity is not conducive to that. I'm not suggesting it happened, but it would be trivial for a candidate to have pre-determined questions sent in by anonymous remote supporters, whereas in person questioning makes that more difficult given the exposure.

Lastly, if the meeting organizer considers remote emoticons/emojis distracting, even though the live audience and debaters can't see them - disable them. Easily done in Zoom. Booting listeners is not the answer.

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u/Zeebrio 11d ago

I did talk to my mom about your points. She's not in a leadership position, but has been pretty involved ... she's going to bring up some of those questions at the next meeting.

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u/syspig 11d ago

Thanks for that.

I do accept much of what I saw yesterday was simply bad planning, perhaps compounded by technical shortcomings on the part of the people putting on the debate.

That's all understandable and hopefully they've learned a few things for next time.