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
Example where we would want more that two or even three choices:
If we wanted quora, the number that constitutes a quorum. (and for that matter whether we use a number or percentage, and whether we revise the number periodically.)
If we want seconds, a similar question arises.
If we reject majority voting, the size of the super-majority.
The meta-question of how we handle questions which are not subject to a binary yes/no answer. Because there are at lease three possible answers.
A) Plurality
B) run-off
C) preference voting.
So that in itself is a non-binary question.
In short it is extremely likely that during this process we will end up confronting at least one question we can't answer with a single yes or no.
And Jengods example above is a perfect case for preference voting.
You know the thing, with the making people dizzy? I think you're still doing it, FWIW.
I understand the exercise, and the motivation, but if I were coming in to vote now, I'd be more tempted to vote
against
further voting than I would have been yesterday.
I was under the impression that thread names were seperate from this process.
I was under the impression that thread names were seperate from this process.
Thread names - yes
New threads - no
Yet another question: if voting is approved, will everything need to
go to formal vote? It seems to me that there's something of a hierarchy of "importance" of issues to the community at large, such as, from least to most (is "thread" the right way to describe different folders / conferences / what have you? I'm blanking on what is correct)
Blocking obvious spammers
Changing the blurbs describing a thread
Naming a thread
Changing some policy on an existing thread (ie spoilers)
Creating a new thread
Banning a poster
I'm sure that I'm overlooking some issues that come up; I haven't read Bureaucracy for very long! Anyhow, maybe there should be some consideration (assuming voting passes) of what needs to be voted on, and what can be handled informally, by some consensus-like mechanism? Do you/we really need four days of discussion and three of voting the change the blurb on the front page when "Buffy" ends? Do you even need that much formality for naming Natter 27?
(hmm.. looks like unlurking is adictive.)
Thread names - yes New threads - no
But wasn't jengod's example, which was just cited as a reason why preference voting would be necessary, thread names?
(OK, looking back, I see that he could have been refering to the quorum number thing. But really, there is no reason to decide that now, since we don't know how the vote went.)
if voting is approved, will everything need to go to formal vote?
The ballot lists things that would be exceptions, including blocking obvious trolls and thread naming.
On the subject of abstension votes, I think we should include more specific options for people who aren't firmly yays or nays.
1) emphatically yes; 2) yes; 3) eh; 4) no; 5) no fuckin' way; 6) abstain; 7) don't give a rat's ass; 8) monkey; 9) what the hell's a quorum? 10) LOL
Please check all that apply.