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.
Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.
'Conviction (1)'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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
DavidS - Mar 02, 2003 10:57:19 pm PST #6166 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Gandalfe - Mar 02, 2003 10:58:06 pm PST #6167 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Math is hard! </Barbie>
§ ita § - Mar 02, 2003 10:59:27 pm PST #6168 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Denise - Mar 02, 2003 11:01:58 pm PST #6169 of 10001
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.
Gandalfe - Mar 02, 2003 11:02:45 pm PST #6170 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
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?
Burrell - Mar 02, 2003 11:08:37 pm PST #6171 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
sigh
jengod - Mar 02, 2003 11:45:58 pm PST #6172 of 10001
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!
victor infante - Mar 02, 2003 11:56:53 pm PST #6173 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
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.
victor infante - Mar 02, 2003 11:59:47 pm PST #6174 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Oh, and Hec? There could be more math. This could be mathier.
Cindy - Mar 03, 2003 4:58:14 am PST #6175 of 10001
Nobody
We got everything tallied and now you want to make it mathier. People are already scared.
:) just :)
jengod - verily dost thou rock. And what a pretty table. Thank you.
I'm also pleased in a silly sort of way that there were 135 voters. After the polls opened, during the hard discussion about quorum and minyan and determining percentage, and yada, I started to make a post saying as far as I could tell, there were between 125 and 150 regular posters. I made a list of the Buffistas I could think of off of the top of my head and came up with about 100, yet knew there were more. Then I didn't post it, because it was already way too mathy. Still, it is nice to see I wasn't completely wacko in my thinking on how many folks are a regular presence here.