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, my idea is hinging on that once it's been opened for discussion, there'll be 4 days of potential discussion, and then nothing else for 6 months to a year. I really want to see that happen for pointless suggestions. Really, a lot. It's the moratorium I'm seeking.
If you can close discussions without any interest in the discussion thread, why can't you do the same in the bureaucracy thread? I don't see the benefit of extending the rigmarole and spreading it over two threads when it's so starved for interest.
Cindy - that would be great. I will still volunteer to help with the polling, if (it already being half done) my help will be useful. But obviously ad-hoc is not the way to go, which means my suggestion is currently not practical.
If you can close discussions without any interest in the discussion thread, why can't you do the same in the bureaucracy thread?
Then we need to state that explicitly that somehow (with as yet undecided criteria (another time period?)) things that don't get enough steam to make it to the discussion thread also have to be tabled.
What seems a useful time? And it should start counting from the moment it's suggested.
"Discussion and/or voting could be extended in the event of major holidays."
I think we should say this and BE SPECIFIC about holidays. Because I don't want to hear someone saying they celebrate National Pickle Week and need votes extended for that but I also want to make sure that Am Chau's and FayJay's Bank Holiday Mondays, The Nova Scotians' Canada Day and Angus and Plasmo's etc.'s whatever day (Convict Appreciation Day?) and Nilly's rather more strict holidays don't get passed over as UnAmerrurican.
What seems a useful time? And it should start counting from the moment it's suggested.
If we're talking just getting four seconders, I'd go with 24 hours. One business day if there are a lot of people who are absent on weekends, though again - for just collecting seconders - I don't think it's such a problem.
In terms of holidays - any holiday for which the national government of a nation with five or more Buffistas currently resident should count. True? Or not?
any holiday for which the national government of a nation with five or more Buffistas currently resident should count. True? Or not?
US, UK, Australia, Canada, Israel, Spain, Malta, Ireland just for starters. Any volunteers to track them?
edit: whoops. FIVE. I can read. But I don't think it's fair or practical to disenfranchise the Nillys and PaulJs in such a particular way. No, I have nothing constructive to add.
In terms of holidays - any holiday for which the national government of a nation with five or more Buffistas currently resident should count. True? Or not?
Seems reasonable to me. At the moment that'd be the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, right?
US, UK, Australia, Canada, Israel, Spain, Malta, Ireland just for starters. Any volunteers to track them?
But the last four don't have five or more Buffistas.
But the last four don't have five or more Buffistas.
See edit above. But honestly, if we're counting Buffistas, there are about 400 that we don't know where they live.
