No, because there were already hardcore spoilers in there. Someone new might not know not to look at the white font for the first couple hundred posts.

Aha. Good point.

Okay. I am confused by the vote results. Didn't one of the options vote out the new thread entirely? I must have misunderstood the ballot. So the vote was three potential versions of the new spoiler thread, and in order for it not to have been created, it would have had to have gotten "no" votes across all three options? Not that it matters to my vote personally, since I voted no pref. But the yes vote was for the new thread, lite, and the no votes were for the new thread, whitefont, and the new thread, tbd?

I think what that last one was, Liese, was a vote not to open a thread with specs to be determined, as those voters chose one of the two already defined alternate spoiler threads. I think it was an option for people who didn't like the two defined choices.

... was a vote not to open a thread with specs to be determined, as those voters chose one of the two already defined alternate spoiler threads...

Polter-Cow has been spending too much time parsing bio-chem texts. He thinks this utterance explains things.

Hey, Jon. I don't want to step on any toes, so if you'd prefer I not, that's totally cool, but I was thinking about updating the photo gallery. Mostly that I'd like to spearhead a doing of it.

You mean redesign it, or just add photos to it?

Liese, I read it as individual votes on three separate new threads. If all three had passed, we'd have three new spoiler threads, on top of the one we have.

I wondered about the possibility of ending up with three different spoiler light threads when I read the ballot.

If all three had passed, we'd have three new spoiler threads, on top of the one we have.

le nubian implied that if that happened, she'd examine the data and propose another vote to settle it.

I asked about that, because this ballot was very different than ones we've done in the past. le nubian said:

I'm an academic, so I'd prefer to collect the most data and then deal with the results later. I can't think of another way to do it that would address the Hard Core Spoiler people and the Hard Core Lite people.

This gives people as much choice as they desire and if this nets too many recommended threads, then we can deal with that in another week.

In some ways, I feel that the administrative issue and what people want are two different things that need to be dealt with in separate instances. If people see this as REALLY problematic, I can change the poll again.

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I'm going to start off by saying the balloting is done, and we had a single choice. I have no problem with either that, that there were multiple choices, or the outcome. Here's the thing.

This gives people as much choice as they desire and if this nets too many recommended threads, then we can deal with that in another week.

Nowhere in the ballot was it mentioned that we were voting on preferences or recommendations, or that it was an elaborate poll. The way we've set things up, if pluralities had chosen all three options, we'd have three threads, and we wouldn't be able to change that for six months, not a week. Not everybody reads the entire lightbulb thread before voting. I didn't. I think in the future, if there's any kind of unfinished business attached to a choice or choices on the ballot, it ought to be stated on the ballot.