Should she then round up ten people who don't care?
In another 6 months/year, sure.
Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness.
Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.
'Never Leave Me'
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
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2003 10:35:48 pm PST #5700 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 26, 2003 10:37:47 pm PST #5701 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I don't blame Noah Webster! Well, maybe I do. But that wasn't me! That was my sister, with the amn'ts, and the shalln'ts, and the ice cream and the frog and the ten-year-old's overdeveloped sense of irony.
Quoraciosity.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 26, 2003 10:38:51 pm PST #5702 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I was seriously thinking a quorum would be, like, 10 Buffistas.
Big ol' wrod.
brenda m - Feb 26, 2003 10:39:21 pm PST #5703 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 was seriously thinking a quorum would be, like, 10 Buffistas.
I wouldn't want to see it go higher than say 25.
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2003 10:40:46 pm PST #5704 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would every issue have the same quorum? That seems ... flat.
John H - Feb 26, 2003 10:44:46 pm PST #5705 of 10001
Should she then round up ten people who don't care?
In another 6 months/year, sure.
Sorry to be dim, but I don't get that.
OK the principle is the same, just divided by ten.
Six yes-votes, two no-votes, one abstention = 9 voters = no Aly thread for Lizard.
But if she gets one more person to show up and say "hell, I don't care, it's all the same to me" then she gets a thread?
She doesn't need more yes-votes, she doesn't want more no-votes, but by calling on the apathy vote, she gets her way?
brenda m - Feb 26, 2003 10:45:07 pm PST #5706 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 could see raising it for major issues.
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2003 10:46:10 pm PST #5707 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The quorum, as I understood it, is to get a discussion started. Once it's started, no matter how the vote goes, it can't be raised again for an undetermined period of time. The vote may be simple majority, it may not.
Some people have already stated their intent to quora for discussions they won't vote on.
DavidS - Feb 26, 2003 10:49:53 pm PST #5708 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Would every issue have the same quorum? That seems ... flat.
Bigger quorum for "constitutional" issues, maybe. Which may also require more than simple majority.
I think quorum isn't just to start the discussion in the proposed Supreme Court thread or trigger a vote, but to ensure the validity of the vote. A certain number of people would need to vote for it to be valid.
brenda m - Feb 26, 2003 10:49:53 pm PST #5709 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
The quorum, as I understood it, is to get a discussion started.
I don't think that's how the current question reads. Some people were making a distinction between seconds, which is what I'd call what you're talking about, and a quorum, which only comes into effect at vote time.
I'm not completely sold on the idea that we need either, but especially the quorum.
Which we're voting on, so we shall see.