I'm afraid that the meta is reaching mega proportions.

t /in response to bitterchick

I think I'll have a vodka and soda.

t /in response to Anathema

I'm not sure what to suggest at this point. I'm going to read/skip/skim this discussion, but I honestly don't think I have anything else to add.

Jon's going to put up a form tonight so that we can get a clarification on the previous vote. Poll, vote, tally, whatever.

There was some confusion, and I'd really like it cleared up. Nothing new -- preferential posting was not part of the original vote.

It's an informational point, and an important one. No new nothing, not at this moment, please.

We aren't trying to change the vote, just determine what people thought they were voting for, right?

BUT, if enough people are for deciding questions with multiple answers based on a plurality, we can forget all the voting systems and whatnot, and just go from there. I mean, right?

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".

Yes. Exactly.

I don't think there's an apology needed, at all. Oh, and scotch. Neat.

Clarify the initial confusion, for crying out loud. Get to the rest of it later. Like, when people aren't thinking about reaching through the computer and choking one another.

I know we're all trying to be constructive and useful, and make our lovely Buffistaspace a better place to hang, but I just want to voice my opinion that I feel like we've created a monster.

I was one of the people who was at least partially involved in the original discussion that (I thought) responsible for bringing up the voting thing.

I thought it semmed like a good idea at the time.

Now I wonder. Not to say everybody here should stop or something, but this thing we've decided to do has taken on a life of it's own.

I don't know how to do it better, and I don't know how to uncreate the monster, and I don't have any helpful suggestions.

But I wanted to express myself about it.

Please continue on. Flame me if you must. I will not hold it against you.

My apologies for not adding something constructive, along with my venting. You're all still Buffistas, and therefore ultra-foamy in my book, no matter what.

Clarify the initial confusion, for crying out loud. Get to the rest of it later. Like, when people aren't thinking about reaching through the computer and choking one another.

Exactly. (Hey, I said I wouldn't post anything new, but I'll gladly repeat things with which I agree.)

Hey, JonB, did I send you that goofy-ass picture of me from my fat period (well, fatter period) for the gallery? Or do I just think I did? I know that I often intend to do something but then never get it done.

Maybe one day I will actually scan a flattering pic into my computer.

BUT, if enough people are for deciding questions with multiple answers based on a plurality, we can forget all the voting systems and whatnot, and just go from there. I mean, right?

Absolutely.

I don't know how to do it better, and I don't know how to uncreate the monster, and I don't have any helpful suggestions.

What was that quote about how democracy is an imperfect system but it's better than any of the alternatives?

Hey, JonB, did I send you that goofy-ass picture of me from my fat period

All 8 Mbytes of it, yes. ;)

Several people sent me photos a couple of weeks ago. Sorry, I haven't gotten around to putting them up. It will happen soon.

I don't know this for certain, Jon, but I think a benevolent monarchy, with Ple as the monarch, would work for me.