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 (DIR) Post #AyHa4tyalIorB79jPs by coolboymew@shitposter.world
       2025-09-17T02:03:11.071419Z
       
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       One of the biggest plague of the last decade or so is the rise of a specific kind of virtue signaler: The dude arguing for people not in the room and for people who doesn't care about the thing (whatever that thing may be)These fuckers are absolutely everywhere and they're one of the reasons we got into the "everything for everyone!" era and how things became sloppy to a crazy degree
       
 (DIR) Post #AyI8AB3HBhR6F0pu2S by ectothermic2315@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2025-09-17T02:42:47.843894Z
       
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       @coolboymew This reminds me of "proxy voting": https://robertsrules.com/frequently-asked-questions/ ("Should proxy votes be counted?"). A “proxy” is a means by which a member who expects to be absent from a meeting authorizes someone else to act in his or her place at the meeting. Proxy voting is not permitted in ordinary deliberative assemblies unless federal, state, or other laws applicable to the society require it, or the bylaws of the organization authorize it, since proxy voting is incompatible with the essential characteristics of a deliberative assembly. As a consequence, the answers to any questions concerning the correct use of proxies, the extent of the power conferred by a proxy, the duration, revocability, or transferability of proxies, and so forth, must be found in the provisions of the law or bylaws which require or authorize their use. In the case of a "virtue signaler", I expect that it's likely such a person was not even authorized to act as a proxy, so is not given any legitimacy by claiming to act in another person's interest.  Someone who is speaking should speak on their own behalf, or on behalf of an office that a group of people consented to empowering them with. To do otherwise is to try to mark themselves as being more important than another speaker without having any defense, so anyone could do that, so we should assume that everyone has already done that and that we have discovered that every speaker actually is equally affected after considering "virtue signaling" (so we can just skip the process and focus on whether a person is able to discharge the powers of an office, and take any other steps to determine the weight of their vote in comparison to another person's vote). I'd like to note that it seems that a "proxy" is not the same as a "delegate": https://robertsrules.org/rror-12.htm#71