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 are overthinking. This is not a government. This is not a science fiction convention. This is a party. A large, diffuse cocktail party.
Yes, this. And to go back to conversation this morning, if, in a real-life group of people who like each other, one person says, "Hey, could we not talk about this right now?" people generally stop talking about it right now. Not because they feel oppressed by the one person, but as a nice gesture. It doesn't necessarily mean the topic is forbidden for all time, but it means we aren't going to talk about it right now.
Double-post.
But I will add that this whole conversation has taken so many twists and turns, I have no idea what we're even discussing.
Okay, so then let's prove the idiocy of the previously voted-upon process by flagrantly disregarding it in our first official vote. I for one will be very amused.
LMAO. But seriously, I don't think this is a new vote. I think this is amendment to clarify the will of the voters on the previous ballot.
OK, I had to skip about 300 messages, and I have to say that I don't see how we got from "here are the results of the vote" to here.
We voted for having a quorum, right? Did we decide on the size of the quorum? It seems like that would be the first issue.
Also, I have to say I really really dislike the idea of having officers. A lot.
But given how this whole process has gone I won't accept rudeness. I really want an apology from Anthama for the "dicking" comment.
I would look at it in the context of... well, the context of the 300 or so last posts in this thread. I think that, while no one else used that word, there are many people who might have been thinking of similar ones when trying to describe the last 24 hours in this thread. IOW, I saw it not as an insult, but more as a "let's stop arguing in circles and actually get something done".
IJS.
But seriously, I don't think this is a new vote. I think this is amendment to clarify the will of the voters on the previous ballot.
That's why I was asking if "poll" would be a better term. We aren't trying to change the vote, just determine what people thought they were voting for, right?
We aren't trying to change the vote, just determine what people thought they were voting for, right?
Yep. But if we say we're having a "poll" on the "vote", will the results of the "poll" be official enough to modify the results of the "vote"?
Oh dear lord. I've officially snapped now.
A large, diffuse cocktail party.
Can I get a gin and tonic?
obviously this is anathema's warped definition of lurking
