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by stavros 701 days ago
This article keeps talking about "the caucus problem", but never actually defines it. I couldn't follow the post at all because every problem kept ending with "but this isn't the real problem, the caucus problem is".
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A caucus is defined and discussed in the previous post: “A caucus (and specifically an unmoderated caucus) is a type of meeting with no rules about who talks in what order or for how long.”

Agreed the post is confusing and could have used a summary of the preceding piece to be intelligible.

https://chelseatroy.com/2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-su...

That clarifies things, thank you!
For everyone else who felt similarly, the explanation is in the previous post (linked near the top of the intro). I also found this confusing because the whole intro felt like it was building up to define the concept and explain why it’s a (the) problem. I even googled the term, thinking it may be some term of art I’m just not familiar with. Then I looked back at the intro again, and inferred that it must be pointing back into the post series… just conveying that poorly.
Same.

I searched a bit online but it doesn’t seem to be a well established term