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[detailer]

Well, what this poll has to do with the subject of the forum is a mystery to me. Yet if people like talking on personal basis, hey enjoy. I could only vote for the worst GC of the forum but thats another question.

Well, I think the reason of existence of this forum is to improve the dialogue and therefore mutual understanding between the forum members,TC and GC. With this poll, people can get an idea to see if they are actually serving this aim or not.

[Alexandros Lordos]

Well, what this poll has to do with the subject of the forum is a mystery to me. Yet if people like talking on personal basis, hey enjoy. I could only vote for the worst GC of the forum but thats another question.

MicAtCyp, I think this poll is an experiential way to visualise what the future of a re-united Cyprus would be like. Perhaps we need such an experiential approach, because "just talking" about a solution gets tiring after a certain point.

This poll reminds me a little of that TV show on RIK 2, "Merhaba" which portrays life in a mixed GC-TC village after re-unification.

By the way, detailer, I think you should also do mixed polls, in which GCs and TCs TOGETHER vote for the most constructive GC, and then GCs and TCs TOGETHER vote for the most constructive TC. That's the truest spirit of cross-voting. And since in this forum there is an equal number of GCs and TCs who tend to vote in polls, the result should be interesting.

Perhaps you can use these current polls as "primaries", and then only include in the second series of polls those who got at least one vote in this poll. This way there will be less options, and therefore more dramatic results.

[detailer]

By the way, detailer, I think you should also do mixed polls, in which GCs and TCs TOGETHER vote for the most constructive GC, and then GCs and TCs TOGETHER vote for the most constructive TC. That's the truest spirit of cross-voting. And since in this forum there is an equal number of GCs and TCs who tend to vote in polls, the result should be interesting.

Yes, after the results of this one is clear, that would be a decent idea

Actually, the results of the most constructive TC a bit amazed me. This is because my favorite TC member in this forum is Turkcyp as well yet my opinions are not the ones most appreciated by GC. This is an interesting irony.

[magikthrill]

Read the topic carefully to understand what happend to alexandros,
as far as I know your parent is cypriot. Isn't it?

actually alexandros has proposed very good solutoins that have been rejected by many TCs (check out the last forum).

also because a parent is cypriot that doesnt make ME cypriot. i have no cypriot papers and i dont consider myself cypriot. i just get darker than most in the summer

[detailer]

actually alexandros has proposed very good solutoins that have been rejected by many TCs (check out the last forum).

I don't exactly agree whatever he proposes either but I think that he is doing very well in empathising with TC and at least considers the TC worries in his proposals; the best a GC can do for TC.

also because a parent is cypriot that doesnt make ME cypriot. i have no cypriot papers and i dont consider myself cypriot. i just get darker than most in the summer

Allright, I won't consider you as a GC anymore.

[Alexandros Lordos]

By the way, detailer, I think you should also do mixed polls, in which GCs and TCs TOGETHER vote for the most constructive GC, and then GCs and TCs TOGETHER vote for the most constructive TC. That's the truest spirit of cross-voting. And since in this forum there is an equal number of GCs and TCs who tend to vote in polls, the result should be interesting.

Perhaps you can use these current polls as "primaries", and then only include in the second series of polls those who got at least one vote in this poll. This way there will be less options, and therefore more dramatic results.

Hmm ... I have thought about it some more, and I ... disagree with myself!

The way to do it, is to have another set of polls, where GCs vote for the more constructive GC, and TCs vote for the most constructive TC. We include exactly the same names as in this poll, and then, when we have the second set of results, we combine the two to see which GC and which TC are most acceptable overall, from a cross-voting perspective.

This may sound like a petty and irrelevant exercise, but in fact it is very important. After all, what we are voting for is not really persons (we don't even know each other's real names) but for negotiating styles and problem-solving mentalities. It will then be very interesting to see if we can trust the winning GC mentality and the winning TC mentality to form together a team which would lead the re-united Cyprus and work together to solve the country's problems through consensus.

[detailer]

Hmm ... I have thought about it some more, and I ... disagree with myself!

The way to do it, is to have another set of polls, where GCs vote for the more constructive GC, and TCs vote for the most constructive TC. We include exactly the same names as in this poll, and then, when we have the second set of results, we combine the two to see which GC and which TC are most acceptable overall, from a cross-voting perspective.

This is actually what I was thinking but you suggested something a bit different and since you are the expert....

[gabaston]

hmmmmmm

think othellos and MickAtCyp, and saint can listen to what we say. of course there's Bananiot but well he's almost one of us enene? i also like the new younger members, dhavlos demitriou, and another who slips my mind (sorry other young member). these are refreshingly without mallice, and that must be constructive.....havent cast my vote yet, so you're all still in with a chance, but only if you're really really really nice to me.

[detailer]

Thanks to the one who voted Piratis and f... the poll.

Gabaston, thanks for your serious contribution(s) as well.

[Alexandros Lordos]

Hmm ... I have thought about it some more, and I ... disagree with myself!

The way to do it, is to have another set of polls, where GCs vote for the more constructive GC, and TCs vote for the most constructive TC. We include exactly the same names as in this poll, and then, when we have the second set of results, we combine the two to see which GC and which TC are most acceptable overall, from a cross-voting perspective.

This is actually what I was thinking but you suggested something a bit different and since you are the expert....

You should never trust the (so-called) experts.