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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
I'd keep number four, and extend voting, maybe into the weekend. Also for spamming the threads. For the time being we can continue discussion in here while voting is open, for anyone who wants to.
I also tend to think that the majority of registered users will be affected very little, if at all, by the kind of thing we're going to be deciding.
I also tend to think that the majority of registered users will be affected very little, if at all, by the kind of thing we're going to be deciding.
Me, too, but I till feel a bit like there are people who are not necessarily against voting, but against talking about it.
Anyhoo.
it is a horrible time to spam Buffy with the news(show staring in 6 minutes) unless we do it wuick. Or are we aiting to spam until the voting is open (oh ita?)
Me, too, but I till feel a bit like there are people who are not necessarily against voting, but against talking about it.
Anyone who's against voting can, just this once, vote. And vote against it, and if there are enough of them, So Shall It Be.
I just caught up with all this. Huge thanks to everyone for all their hard work. I'll be voting.
All of this reminded me of a quote from John Ralston Saul:
I think we've forgotten the energy which it required [...] our fathers and our mothers and our grandparents and our great-grandparents to put in place the basic structures of Australian and Canadian democracy such as the public education system. They fought very hard for that, it didn't come from the top, it came from throughout society, and you don't get to keep things in democracies just because you've got them, you get to keep them because you continue struggling and fighting, giving enormous amounts of your time, boring yourself to death at meetings, trying desperately to get along with people [...]
It is boring sometimes, but at the same time it's very moving, to me at least, that the work gets done.
John!!
Hi John!!!
John! Dude!
Why, no, this post had no content, why do you ask?
I'm sure this counts as natter but yeah, hey everyone. Shouldn't you all be watching Buffy or something?
Oh, I can make this on-topic, I do have a bureacracy note.
Please can we have times expressed as fully as possible?
I see people saying "voting is not open because it's not Wednesday yet" and I'm halfway through my Wednesday.
I would like to see "9.30 PM tonight" phrased "Feb 25, 2003 9:30:00 pm -- Board Time" because I am simply not smart enough to figure out what "9.30 PM tonight" or "9.30 PM Wednesday night" means for me in Sydney, but just by looking at the posts here I can figure out what it means in Board Time ... an hour from now, roughly.
Yeah, I was thinking that earlier, that we definitely have to make sure it explains board time (of course, having a post that says "open NOW!" and "closed NOW!" will help, but.)
(And welcome back, John!)
Make it Board Time or GMT or something.
And Hey, Look, it's JOHN! Yay John! Good to see you.
I'm also wicked fucking impressed with the Constitutional Convention. And I'm sorry I'm not participating much but you're all doing great without my help so I'm not that sorry.