What's the tie-breaker solution?
Flip a coin?
Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.
'Conviction (1)'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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
Lyra Jane - Feb 24, 2003 1:53:56 pm PST #5225 of 10001
Up with the sun
jengod - Feb 24, 2003 1:54:33 pm PST #5226 of 10001
I think ita's quora point is a good one. This is a fluid community. And I think people have different levels of conviction about different stuff. It's democratic: If you don't show up, you don't get a say. That's freedom for ya.
P.S. Australians have to vote?!
Sophia Brooks - Feb 24, 2003 1:54:34 pm PST #5227 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Since I'll be much surprised if the actual questions are the same as the original suggestion, I don't think the original person will necessarily be the one. My gut feeling is that wording will need to be hashed out in-thread anyway towards the end of the discussion, although that could raise issues.
This is my biggest question/fear right now. When we reword, we're asking for a consensus somehow and potentially making the original proposer and/or others feel that their input didn't count, just like we are now.
Also wrt to:
I think if only three people care, they should get their chance to change the world. If I don't want stuff to happen, then I'll cast a vote.
What if only one person cares?
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2003 1:55:02 pm PST #5228 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What if only one person cares?
Okay, quorum is two, then.
edit: I take that back. If I want to set up a "Look at Orlando's feet" thread, and no one opposes the idea, then yeah, I should be allowed to do it.
But, you know, someone's going to oppose it. Because it's really dumb.
And it's very hard to find pictures of his feet.
Holli - Feb 24, 2003 1:55:13 pm PST #5229 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
What's the tie-breaker solution?
Porn at thirty paces.
erinaceous - Feb 24, 2003 1:55:30 pm PST #5230 of 10001
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
What's the tie-breaker solution?
Rap battles. (Beatboxing optional.) What? Like Buffistas shouldn't settle issues through rhyme?
Wolfram - Feb 24, 2003 1:55:43 pm PST #5231 of 10001
Visilurking
What if there's more than one issue on the table. I.e. voting on a Connor is HOTT thread and voting on a Gunn is HOTT thread, and then somebody mentions that Allyson's asspicking thread is still undecided. Are we limiting discussion and voting to one issue a week/52 issues a year?
Katie M - Feb 24, 2003 1:56:11 pm PST #5232 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
What if only one person cares?
Well, if the other 799 people on the board don't care enough about the proposal to vote "no" then the one person should get what they want.
Lyra Jane - Feb 24, 2003 1:56:48 pm PST #5233 of 10001
Up with the sun
Is there any broad agreement about putting a time limit on this discussion so we can say, "That's enough let's vote"? Three more days of this talk? End of the week? Next Monday? Sooner?
I think we need to do two things to answer this. The first is defining exactly what we seem to be building towards, and putting it into a yes/no form. The second is deciding whether the time at WX counts or not. If it does, Wednesday makes four days, since the proposals on this stuff gelled late Sat. or early Sun.; if not, Thursday does.
brenda m - Feb 24, 2003 1:57:00 pm PST #5234 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
I don't see a problem with starting up a new discussion, if warranted, immediately after the (4 days?) elapse on a current discussion.