*hair pats to Steph*
'Life of the Party'
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
Cindy--
Do you think you could link to the post in Press as a clarification? Wolfram and I can't be the only poor souls who need a Quorums for Dummies (TM) explaination.
I just sent in my ballot. I feel all patriotic, or something. Thanks to the people who helped put this together, including Allyson, ita, Jon B., jengod, Laura, Cindy, and Sophia.
And no, even if I think it's important, I bail if it goes on too long, or comes around too often. Because, really, it stops being worth it, when you tally time and effort and sometimes blood pressure.
ita speaks for me. It hasn't happened so much on Buffistas.org, but there are definitely times in my online life when I've made a choice between courage of convictions and staying sane, and sanity has won out.
Okay two things. As to the simple majority thing first. This is decides whether you think an item needs only one half + 1 of the votes to win, or if you'd think any proposal ought to win a higher percentage of the votes before we put it in.
One minor confusion: it basically says to vote yes if you think any proposal should be decided by a simple majority, and no if you think any proposal should be decided by a higher majority. I like the idea of some things being decided by simple majority, but major stuff needing a higher majority. On a strict wording, the above options don't allow for that position.
(I don't think it's a problem. Tracking through the implications, it's pretty clear that a 'no' vote would allow further fine-tuning, while the 'yes' vote's a more ready-made package.)
I'm getting an "invalid e-mail address" error on the poll page, even though it's got my address there and it looks right.
Michelle - I notice your email isn't in your profile. I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not though, because Steph's email address is in her profile.
Cindy--
Do you think you could link to the post in Press as a clarification? Wolfram and I can't be the only poor souls who need a Quorums for Dummies (TM) explaination.
I cross posted it instead, Sophia.
edited to add the ">"
6. David mentions consensus and banning procedures: [link]
My comments are actually at post 1840.
Here's the actual link to David's post (remember that the displayed post number at WX often doesn't match the system post number due to deletions):
Thanks DX. I was really nodding off at that point!
DX, I think you have your login in that link.
Thanks, billytea.