CB.13:4.5.1 - An optional decision method for a small team

An existing small team can consider the Core Protocols’ Decider together with Resolution for its own authorised action proposals. Its members must first adopt the Core Commitments and the protocols’ full obligations. These include staying for the decision, constrained discussion, no Pass during Decider, and responsibility for carrying out Decider commitments made in one’s absence. Joining a community or volunteering for an activity does not by itself adopt those terms.

Use the complete primary instructions when performing the method. One action proposal receives simultaneous yes, no or support responses. An absolute refusal requires the proposer to withdraw the proposal. Resolution addresses a small remaining dissent when the effort is worthwhile. The proposer asks each dissenter for the precise change needed, adopts it or withdraws the proposal. A simple amendment requires checking that everyone is still in; accepting a complex amendment requires withdrawal and a new proposal containing the change. This supplies a concrete way to handle agreement on an action. The team’s mandate, resource permissions and challenge route remain necessary.

Select this option only where those participation terms and limits on discussion fit the decision. If people need to abstain from individual votes, explain their reasons during the vote or avoid obligations for decisions made while absent, choose another agreed method under :4.5. Do not remove such source conditions while claiming to use unchanged Decider. People can decline this arrangement before adopting it without losing their wider community participation.