What Ple proposed it using the "median" to check ourselves on the "mean". That is, if they are very different, I think there is a high or low number really skewing.
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!
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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
Sophia Brooks - Mar 14, 2003 4:10:09 pm PST #7584 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
P.M. Marc - Mar 14, 2003 4:12:12 pm PST #7585 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
What Ple proposed it using the "median" to check ourselves on the "mean". That is, if they are very different, I think there is a high or low number really skewing.
Yerp.
Sean K - Mar 14, 2003 4:13:07 pm PST #7586 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, just making sure I was following. I'll return to my lurking now.
John H - Mar 14, 2003 4:15:40 pm PST #7587 of 10001
using the "median" to check ourselves on the "mean"
Seems sensible. And where's that dissertation on the Binary Walk or Octal Amble or Hex Hike or whatever, Gar? Enquiring minds want to know.
Jessica - Mar 14, 2003 4:35:01 pm PST #7588 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
UTTERLY off-topic, and probably something that nobody wants to hear, but
DXMachina "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Jan 1, 2003 10:15:03 am EST
Mieske's suspension ended on March 1st. Has anyone re-activated him?
DavidS - Mar 14, 2003 4:45:10 pm PST #7589 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mieske's suspension ended on March 1st. Has anyone re-activated him?
I think the stompies are aware of this.
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 14, 2003 5:27:09 pm PST #7590 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Mieskie violated the terms of his suspension when he posted one last time as "Michael" (not to mention the /mieskie and mieskie/ and mmieskie registrations, although he did deny, didn't he, that those were him). Quite essentially saying, "the rules do not apply to me". Which, I feel, ought to automatically disqualify him as Buffista. Part of being a Buffista is being a creature to whom the Buffista Rules apply.
I think we are *obligated* to keep his status as banned. I feel very strongly about this.
jengod - Mar 14, 2003 5:37:53 pm PST #7591 of 10001
Stompies have a comment on this. But what have to figure out what it is first. Hold on.
:)
P.M. Marc - Mar 14, 2003 5:42:49 pm PST #7592 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
We do?
Why do we always have comments when I'm Away From Home?
Cindy - Mar 14, 2003 5:47:26 pm PST #7593 of 10001
Nobody
Mieske's suspension ended on March 1st. Has anyone re-activated him?
Not saying a word. Is "snerk" a word?
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About MVT - If we're having an MVT (which we are, because it was voted in) it's meaningless to define it as less than 3, because we have the majority requirement of 50%+1 vote. If we defined MVT as "1", by requiring a simple majority, we'd need 1.5, or rounded up to 2. If we define MVT as "2" and one person votes yes, and one person votes no, we still don't have a simple majority. Whatever we suggest, if we put in a bottom number, please make it "3".
I don't even want an MVT, but since we have one, I'm just sayin'...
As to picking the mean - I don't like it, because it's going to end up around 50. No. Really. There are enough of us that want high, and enough of us that want low.
Why don't we let people pick one from:
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100
At least then, we'll only have 20 different choices, not 100. I'm for a MVT of zero. I can happily live at 5. amych is for an MVT of 97, unless she (like Jesse the 50 PIMP) is obsessed with the number 97, I bet she'd be happy with 95 or 100.