'Sleeper'
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
OK, you know what? I think we should try preferential voting for JUST these two issues, and then we should do our damnedest to make yes/no questions in the future.
Although, I personally am not sure how I'll do ranking, because I know the One Right Answer.
(Honestly, the next thing I put forward is going to be Put Jesse In Charge of Everything.)
Also, all the "Auisitiriailiiiaini" stuff cracked me up.
That is all. Let me know when y'all want me to vote.
Shit. That wasn't all. It happens in Cambridge relatively often that the frontrunner loses, because everyone assumes they will win and so they give their #1 votes to someone else as a gesture. So it does happen In Real Life.
Works for me, Jesse. Both on your becoming Arbitrix of Everything (where do you stand on dark chocolate?) and on doing a preferential vote just this once.
I understood majority as greater than 50%.
everyone assumes they will win and so they give their #1 votes to someone else as a gesture
What happens a lot here is that people also use their second vote as a kind of a hint -- I'll vote for Gore, because I hate Bush, but hey, Gore, look how I'm putting Nader second. I'm not a left-swinging rightwinger, pal, in case you were confused...
I propose that we nominate and vote in a board of directors who can vote on all the little stuff for us, and we (the greater membership) only have to vote on board-shattering issues. Who's with me?
I think we should try preferential voting for JUST these two issues, and then we should do our damnedest to make yes/no questions in the future.
If my not-really-a-vote counts, I'm with . . . . everyone who said this.
I like John's table, and Jon's suggestion that we try it this once and see how it goes. My gut tells me the discussion is way more complicated than the reality will prove to be.
I saw majority, wished for plurality (and I think I mentioned it at some point) but preferred majority over supermajority anyway so I went with it. In retrospect we could have been clearer.
I'm with the try it once - then decide whether we ever do it again.
My gut tells me the discussion is way more complicated than the reality will prove to be.
I agree. The nitty-gritty might be complex, but we all (or most of us) either do our taxes every year or pay someone to do it, and this is NOTHING like that.