Well you aren't making this very easy.
It's not an easy problem to solve. Let's take the time to get it right.
Picking people we deem to give a shit, or that we like isn't very fair or democratic.
I agree. That's why I think official member status is a good measure to go by.
The old website has
a register of all official FES members. Some of them won't be registered on this forum, of course, but if we establish the set of users here who are official members, then we have the set of people who can vote.
It's not a perfect measure, and it means I won't get a vote, but at least it's fair and consistent.
I also think we should have periodic elections of this nature by all official members. I would actually sign up as an official member if we had a Society run by someone who isn't Daniel, and I suspect many others would do likewise.