I think it's fine, shrift, if you don't want to keep posting announcements. I suspect most of us who read your site check in regularly anyway. It was just convenient that you posted. Low profileness, and thus, longevity, wins out.

Shrift, another option is to go mailing-list only for the announcements. FWIW.

Wow! At least a two-thirds majority on every ballot question.

So we have voted to have

1) voting
2) a 'quorum'
3) a simple majority
4) discussion limited to 4 days and voting to 3 days (holidays permitting)

Next questions are, I guess, deciding what our 'quorum' should be.

Thank you so much, jengod!

Next questions are, I guess, deciding what our 'quorum' should be.

Definitely one of the first questions. Might be good to bring back Sophia's list again, pare that down until we see the obvious next steps. Let's try to focus on one element at at time, and spend some time ordering what things need to be decided.

Thank you everybody for participating in creating the ballot, and voting.

I'll pst the list tomorrow am.

Also, the 2 direct things from this vote that still need to be decided are the quorum and whether or not the discussion is closed once voting begins.

You know, the thing I really want to accomplish from all of this is (well, sure, I want all Buffistae to feel a part of the decision making process, blah, blah, blah) to limit the discussion on issues. I know we talk a lot, and always have, but it's really getting hard to read all the posts. Which I feel compelled to do.

If I may provide color commentary as well as doing the numbers...

• FTR, not that it matters, I'd say 5/6 of the ballots were Buffistas whose nom de board I recognized, versus lurkers. (Not that I post in every thread, all the time, so YLurkersMV.)

• Some people, with a sense of I dunno, consistency, voted no on majority voting and then abstained from the rest. Others voted no and then still had opinions. IJS.

• [edit] Oh yeah! Thanks to Shawn for mentioning this downstream. I'm editing to add it b/c it's interesting. We have 800 registered users, plus maybe a handful, and 135 folks voted. So we have a 17%-ish turnout.

• The majority of votes came in the first 3 days, so I think the 3-day voting period is probably an okay plan.

A breakdown. All times local to me -- PST.

Day# of Votes% of Ballots Tue.3828.1% Wed.7253.4% Thur.1410.4% Fri.21.5% Sat.64.4% Sun.32.2%

The big jump on Saturday (300%) suggests that we make sure to have at least 1 of the voting days be a weekend day, for those who can't do it at work.

It doesn't affect me, but . . . .

Some people, with a sense of I dunno, consistency, voted no on majority voting and then abstained from the rest. Others voted no and then still had opinions.

Some of us assumed we'd be in the minority on issue #1, and yet didn't feel that that should make our opinions on issues #2-4 invalid.