The way I see it is that the leadership are the executives - they enforce rules, implement changes, etc. The council and the leadership work together to vote on and create rules and changes. The council should be representative of the member base in the sense that if a member has a suggestion for a change the council would vote on whether it should be a clan-wide vote or a council/leadership decision, and then vote accordingly. This is in addition to moderation capabilities of both leadership and council.
Thus, I agree with Sorc - there does not need to be that many leaders and council members. For the amount of people in the clan right now, 5 total leaders + councilmen (active) should be enough in my opinion. We have John, Sorc, and Camel right now. Sorc used to be pretty active. Camel is very active. John is less active online, but he obviously does many other things for the clan. All three of them are on the forums a lot. I think just the 3 of them as of now handle things great. However, what John and Camel both said needs to be considered: the clan is growing. This is why, in my view, we are electing a council. However, I don't think there needs to be more than 2 or so council members (making, as I said before, 5 leadership positions). This is because we are not making many changes, not receiving much input from members, etc.
So far I see nominated:
RD
Judge
and me.
As of now whether only 1 or 2 or all 3 of us make it onto council, that would be more than sufficient to cover the clan for the next few months, unless we get an explosion of activity. That's what I think, anyway :P.
Someone else split this off from nominations.
Topic: Council Numbers - Split (Read 783 times)