Spike ,'Smile Time'
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
THREE DAYS! THREE DAYS! THREE DAYS!
(That's a cheer, not yelling at you nice people.)
And I wouldn't say three business days, either -- three calendar days should do it, if at least one of those days is a week day and one of those days is a weekend day.
Actually, do we really need a hard-and-fast time rule for arguing at the outset? We're not using the thread, as I understand it, to get everyone's consensus, just to present all the positions on the topic and refine it. We might be able to tell when that phase is over.
Well, we'd need to know when to close it? Or, Shawn, are you thinking, whoever proposes it says, "I'm proposing this. I'd like to talk about it for X number of days and then vote" with X being no less than 2 or 3?
Speaker of the house! I'll assign the amount of time spent. I'll be Speaker.
Giddy at the inherent lesson in Civics this could be!
I wanna be the Whip! Whip!
I was thinking more along the lines of a loose guideline of three business days. If the discussion isn't over by then, someone can move in-thread to extend it for a day. Second and thirded motion should do it.
I like the time limit because it means we have to act at some point. Otherwise, we might have one discussion drag on for weeks and weeks and weeks.
Kristen, just think, it could be expanded to Cool Whip or Dream Whip or Whip Cream. Whip is so much better than Speaker.
The thought of having to participate in a discussion and then write a position paper on it for another thread is no more appealling than the idea of quelling discussion at all.
Just to clarify, it would not be mandatory to write your position. I think it would help if positions were clearly laid out by people who wised to lay out said positions for people who want to see the positions without wading through 5 trillion posts. But it does seem like Schmoker and I are in the minority, I just thought it was a pretty good idea.
Banana Bread:
I was thinking more along the lines of a loose guideline of three business days. If the discussion isn't over by then, someone can move in-thread to extend it for a day. Second and thirded motion should do it.
Or, conversely, if everyone pretty much agreed right away, you could motion to vote at the end of the first or second day. Okay, I like this.
Whip is so much better than Speaker.
It's the most fun ever. Also, I like the implied "infliction of pain" factor. It speaks to me.