As soon as the words vote and nominate were typed people got the wrong end of the stick. I've tried to remind people previously what this thread is about, but it seems most people see the thread title and nothing else.
How long people have played this game for should have nothing to do with nominations. The things that count are maturity, abilty to see both sides of an argument and being able to put forward an unbiased judgement backed up with well-thought out arguments.
The main purpose of a potential committee is to help Jitspoe, and provide multiple viewpoints to situations that may or may not have occured before within the community.
Now with regards to so called "pub newbies" being nominated, that in itself is not the issue. The issue is that as they have not been part of the community, it is very hard to assess their nature, behaviour, maturity, decision making skills etc, thus making them slightly less favourable candidates than people we as the communty know about.
And please, try not to flame in this thread of all threads.