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.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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
Typo Boy - Feb 24, 2003 3:32:21 pm PST #5278 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2003 3:32:54 pm PST #5279 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
erinaceous - Feb 24, 2003 3:34:36 pm PST #5280 of 10001
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
"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.
billytea - Feb 24, 2003 3:34:56 pm PST #5281 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.
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.
Typo Boy - Feb 24, 2003 3:37:05 pm PST #5282 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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?
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2003 3:38:13 pm PST #5283 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
billytea - Feb 24, 2003 3:38:54 pm PST #5284 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.
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?
billytea - Feb 24, 2003 3:39:29 pm PST #5285 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.
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.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2003 3:40:42 pm PST #5286 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 24, 2003 3:42:40 pm PST #5287 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I STILL don't get the quorum/majority thing.
This is my question:
Is point 2 Quorum addressing the minuimun number of interested parties in BUREACRACY needed to generate a vote, or is it the once we're in the thread, a certain number of people need to participate.
if it is the 2nd, I think we need to add a point for the first.
Also, some people objected to the creation of another thread at all, thinking that we should do this here. Should we address that?