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
This is kind of a Buffistechnology thing, but has anyone, and by "anyone" I mean Jon B, considered the HTML-form and/or PHP complexities of preference-based voting?
I mean radio buttons are really very simple. Yes, No, Don't Care, with a built-in checker right there in the browser interface that no more than one button is down.
If you're going to give me n options, and require me to give each a number between one and n, and not use any number twice, and not miss any option out, oy, the checking and the validation involved!
This, as billytea points out, is why such preferential voting systems have a "Put a big X next to the Labor Party and don't worry your pretty little head about those bothersome preferences, we'll sort it out for you" option.
Kat, I agree with everything you have ever said, and, for the record, everything you will ever say.
Well, almost everything.
Aw, Angus. So sweet. So we agree on everything except things on which we disagree. I can live with that.
stamps Kat's parking ticket
I do live in LA, billytea, I get plenty of parking validation on a regular basis.
Hey John! It's good to see you back again.
I'm taking my nattery self away until we find out the results of voting. Then I'm gonna become lobby/advocacy girl. Or not depending on the result.
But I still think of myself as the Speaker of the House! Kristen remains the Whip.
edited for sensemaking.
Hey Kat, nice to see you too.
cracks whip, likes the sound it makes
Not at me, Kristen! By god... watch what you are doing with that whip.
Seriously...
thank you to Cindy, jengod, and Jon who made the vote seemed easy to me until I read in here.
This post was mostly an attempt to numberslut. Successful!
watch what you are doing with that whip.
No, no. You're supposed to watch. It's like a floor show.
Where's Allyson when I need her?
Well after reading the couple of hundred messages attempting to formulate the perfect polling process all I can say is, "Don't you wish you'd given them a politics thread?"
(snerk)
by "anyone" I mean Jon B
Yes, I've thought about it and if you want to discuss it further, let's move to a private channel. We don't want to be on the far end of Kristin's whip.
As if Kristen's whip couldn't reach back-channel. *scoff*
Bureaucracy 2: Like Kafka, Most of the Time, But With the Occasional Desperate Joke Every 250 Posts or So
jengod - may I tag this?
****caution caution caution**** [This is the scene of a tag-theft. If you see any giggling Bostonians please report them to the proper authori-TAYS]
*buries Hec's old tag in the yard.
*validates Kat. twice*
Post deleted due to Cindy's response -- that's what I get for skimming.
