For a community whose proposals keep dying without being refused
We cannot make a decision
Everything stalls, and it is never about the thing being decided — three patterns that jam a community's decision-making from different directions.
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What you will be able to do
01
Tell a group that disagrees from one whose process cannot close
02
Find the decision nobody can classify, which is where most of these start
03
Check whether your amendment rule is one you can still clear
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Convert an unwritten veto into a stated authority of about the same size
The path
4 steps, in order
- Power nobody voted for Five patterns that hand authority to people the group never chose — and why every one of them is built by somebody being helpful.
- Decisions with no stated type The same question is routine or constitutional depending on who you ask — so the answer depends on who gets to frame it.
- The founder's informal veto No rule grants it and everyone routes around it anyway — the objection that ends a discussion without ever being tested.
- Governance with no path to change it The rules can no longer be changed, so people stop trying — and the community loses its members quietly instead of loudly.
- Path complete Then: Proposals & ratification.
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