CB.13:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Misuse	Repair
Infer a community-wide mandate from founding the group, moderating it or being widely trusted.	Recover the actual source, subject and term of the decision right.
Ask for comments but present the result as a member vote.	State whether participants advise, consent or decide, and apply that actual arrangement.
Call a representative’s personal preference the unanimous view of a group.	Obtain and return the relevant differences and limits of representation.
Give local groups autonomy while retaining every usable decision centrally.	Allocate specific subjects and provide the means to act on them.
Adopt a vote rule without eligibility, notice or a way to handle no result.	Complete the procedure around a concrete ordinary case and a dispute.
Extend a small team’s decision protocol to everyone attending a community activity.	Obtain the actual adoption and mandate, or choose a procedure whose participation terms the affected people can accept.
Let the deciding body be the sole judge of every challenge to its own mandate.	Establish an alternate or return to the people who can constitute the mandate.
Treat an attractive revision as effective after a term has expired.	Preserve the proposal and obtain a current authorised disposition.
Require a governing council for all carriers of a practice.	Identify the actual common decision; retain independent use where no such decision is needed.