One of the reasons RROO survives is that it's a practical means to manage conflict within meetings, and, in theory, resolve issues with process. "Brainstorming

One of the reasons RROO survives is that it's a practical means to manage conflict within meetings, and, in theory, resolve issues with process. "Brainstorming", as he describes it, is a co-operative activity (I think so are the rest of the methods he mentions); not all meetings can be assumed to be co-operative affairs, especially over time and with access to people who don't share communal values. When the Occupy movement was inhabiting public spaces, many of them featured regular general assemblies where they were careful to allow everyone a chance to address the crowd. At first it was a beautiful moment of participation by all; over time it became a haranguing session by the loudest and most long-winded--the quiet voices, the vulnerable voices, stopped attending and participating because the meetings became dominated by the domineering, as usually happens. And the organizers, eschewing rules and format, had no means to keep the assemblies to their original purpose, which basically dissolved. Every community, every activity, needs some means of protecting its core so that it can continue, and if it doesn't come down to naked power, then it usually comes down to rules that provide continuity.