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Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
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.
No, that's totally cool! I thought it was totally cool! It was, like, honorable.
He's kidding, right?
You might want to ask him, but why are you so convinced?
Dost Gandalfe jest?
Because Saturday had *6* people. And if we're always wiggling around trying to grab a weekend day for voting we're going to get even more mired down.
Kind of, but it could be a statistically significant point. Are those really people whose voices shouldn't be heard? We really want to ignore 6.6% of the populace? Are we going to be democratic, or only democratic when it's convenient?
it could be a statistically significant point.
An increase from 2 to 6 is not statistically significant.
t /pedantic actuary
