Faith ,'Get It Done'
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
We really want to ignore 6.6% of the populace? Are we going to be democratic, or only democratic when it's convenient?
Not even all the weekend voters make up 6% of the populace. Democratic when it's convenient? Why are federal and state elections only held for one day? How dare they! By your logic, the fact that only about 17% of the registered users voted means we're practically fascist.
Well, employers are required to give people time off to vote in federal and state elections, at least in the US. They're not required to give people internet access to vote on the Phoenix Board. ;-)
Shush! You're killing my afterglow. You're harshing my mellow.
We got everything tallied and now you want to make it mathier. People are already scared.
Math is hard! </Barbie>
From reported usage patterns, I don't know if there's a significant portion of the user base that has weekend only access. Weekday I know of, and offwork weektime hours too. Other patterns seem less predictable.
Also, there will always be Something.
I don't think we should be ridiculous about all of this. I mean, there wasn't a Monday included in the poll. Maybe Monday would have brought in a larger percentages of votes than 6.6%. The voting should take place whenever it happens to take place. Otherwise you'd have to allow the voting to take place over an entire week and I think that's too long.
See, the usage patterns are the real killer. If they don't show that Johnnie only gets on on the weekend, then it doesn't matter. Another easy way to check would be to simply email the 9 people who didn't vote until the weekend and ask them about it.
Besides, as I responded above, I was kind of kidding. But it was something that jumped out at me, so I thought I'd mention it.
And without even bringing up Florida. Aren't you proud of me?
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90%-ish of the voters voted within 3 days. That's great if you ask me. Makes it seem pretty likely that a 3-day voting period will get most people covered.
And those are the last numerals I will type into this box today!
I'm not convinced that there's a significant portion of site users who ONLY post/read post on the weekend from what I'm seeing up there, or from subjective observance of behavior on the board in general. I also have no way of knowing from what's up there that those six people were INCAPABLE of voting on a weekday--and hey, if you're one of those people and want to contradict here, by all means, chime in!.
On the other hand, I'd say 135 voters is fairly representative of the regular inhabitants here--that is to say, those who are going to care overly much about most decisions. Odds are someone who signed on to visit once or so ain't gonna care about most things we'd vote on,nor willsomeone who only visits every few months. Or Joss. Or whatever. I'm rambling.
In any case, a percentage of 135 seems a pretty good benchmark for determining what constitutes a quorum.