Natter 27: No consensus
I think it's ok, but it's too long. Can we make it "Natter 27: Nonsensus" instead?
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
Glory ,'Potential'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
billytea - Aug 20, 2004 8:50:32 am PDT #1935 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 20, 2004 8:52:24 am PDT #1936 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Threes Threes a Threeing is OK by me too.
billytea - Aug 20, 2004 8:54:36 am PDT #1937 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Threes Threes a Threeing is OK by me too.
Momentum! t rides the wave
Nutty - Aug 20, 2004 9:00:56 am PDT #1938 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
For the continuing education of Polter-Cow, and the shuddering flashbacks of others, the preferential voting controversy related back to Bureaucracy 2, when we were instituting voting for the first time. (There having been screaming arguments about whether consensus actually constituted the will of the people.)
Voting having been voted upon, people then began to wonder how voting should work. Preferential voting having been suggested, 500 of the most boring posts in the world ensued, explaining the illuminating joys of preferential voting and denigrating the awful confusingness of preferential voting. It was 500 posts straight of math and mathy-logic, and the universe was very nearly divided by zero before yammering about another topic was able to begin.
Anyway, it ended up not mattering really, since whoever proposes a vote is allowed to write the ballot, and can write whatever form of voting she likes. (I don't think we have had a preferential vote, due to the possibility that a percentage of the electorate would have an aneurysm and we might fail to make minimum turnout.) We have had yes/no questions; questions where you had to answer a number within a range which we then averaged; "if you answered yes to this, please answer yes/no to the following", and I think that is all the kinds of votes we have now had. Preferential voting is not specifically disallowed, but it sure is funny to invoke as a "don't go there! That was lies conversational DANGER!!!" item.
Sort of like gerunds, except the gerunds war was genial.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2004 9:11:17 am PDT #1939 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah. All this history I was not a part of. But I was here for the muffalettas. I'll always remember the muffalettas.
Jon B. - Aug 20, 2004 9:15:58 am PDT #1940 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
feh on No consensus. I'd be happy with either
Natter 27: We already did a three cubed thing, didn't we?or
Natter 27: Three Threes A-... Threes... ing.
Fred Pete - Aug 20, 2004 9:16:08 am PDT #1941 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
All this history I was not a part of.
What's the world coming to when today's youth don't understand our past? It's a scandal!
Pardon me, I'm having "Gang of 14" flashbacks.
For the uninitiated: During the early days of B'cacy, somebody analyzed the posts and found that 14 people posted a large majority of posts in the thread. When this info became public, kerfuffle ensued.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2004 9:18:40 am PDT #1942 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Natter 27: Kerfuffle Ensued
Topic!Cindy - Aug 20, 2004 9:24:16 am PDT #1943 of 10001
What is even happening?
I think that's close to invoking one. I'm going with the threes doing that three thing they three.
brenda m - Aug 20, 2004 9:26:39 am PDT #1944 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Threes Threes a Threeing is OK by me too.
Works for me.