Comment 54116

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted December 30, 2010 at 22:56:37

Yes it is, is it not yours?

Not in a million years would it be.

If you're happy fashioning a correlation between a minor situation regarding the market and the PanAm Games stadium site selection process...good luck with that.

I believe in the power of this medium.

I believe in the power of people using this medium to educate themselves, to find common ground, to generate productive discourse to address problems.

But I do not, as some here do, feel any compunction at all to ascribe powers to RTH or any other site sufficient as things stand currently to hold any appreciable amount of sway over City Council. (Using Mr. 'Greenhorn' Farr as an example actually tied me up in stitches for a spell, so I thank you for that.)

Here's what I'd suggest to anyone believing otherwise (after they've done a solid check on their objectivity; just because you feel enlivened by the lay of the land here, don't think for a second that the rest of the half-million people in the city share your mindset. It's whole different world out there.): talk to your Councillors. Ask them a) how much influence they're currently feeling as a result of what's going on here, at The Hamiltonian, in Comments sections at The Spec, and b) whether or not they'd be more inclined to do the job they were voted in to do based on their own sense of propriety and conviction, or on what kind of Upvoting is taking place online.

I applaud genuine interest in civic governance. I encourage everyone to get involved. But from my perspective, it's a sad development if participants afford RTH and other sites more 'power' than they've genuinely garnered. There's tons of work to be done before we reach that point.

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