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
I really think you need both upper and lower limits to prevent skewing by posting ridiculously extreme numbers. More of an issue with high than low, but still.
I agree. I'd prefer the more moderate range of 10 to 65 over 2 to 100, but as I said before, I don't think it'll change the final results in any substantial way.
I wanted to say, part of my thinking is that I can't imagine any issue coming to a vote in which board interest is so low that it will pass or fail only because many folks "voted" to abstain so that MVT would be met. I think we will have a moderate to low MVT, and that it will be easily met every time by actual votes. Maybe I'm a freak for assuming that the process will actually be simple if we just let it be.
Why don't we let people pick one from:
Cause then we'd have to have a runoff, and we haven't decided how to do that yet.
Cause then we'd have to have a runoff, and we haven't decided how to do that yet.
No, you can still average the results.
Stompies have a comment on this. But what have to figure out what it is first. Hold on.
I'm kind of upset that there is admin-discussion before there is all-Buffista discussion on this issue. I'm kind of upset that the admins, who aren't supposed to be any different from the rest of the Buffistas, are getting to kind of decide what actions they will take on something, without any other Buffistas necessarily knowing about it.
I also kind of know I wasn't supposed to talk about this. But I'm posting anyway, because I feel actually very strongly-- however awkwardly-- about this.
Rebecca, a situation arose in which the involved parties felt a respectful backchannel approach was the best first step. The situation evolved quickly from there.
We've been debating how to talk to others about it since then, then being a couple days ago.
Cause then we'd have to have a runoff, and we haven't decided how to do that yet.
No, you can still average the results.
And median and mode will be more telling spread out over 20 choices, than over 100.
Rebecca, a situation arose in which the involved parties felt a respectful backchannel approach was the best first step.
I know. I see how it happened (I'm fairly sure), and I can understand how it's happened that it happened this way (...!). But I still feel unhappy with it.
(I won't talk here about the specifics of my understanding of the admin/Buffista relationship and admin responsibilities vs. plainly-Buffista responsibilities, because it kind of gets into the specifics of this situation, and I'm... being cryptic too.)
I'm also having a kind of emotional response to this situation. I'm aware of that.
Might I suggest sooner rather than later? RL's wiggins seems to be catching.
I am all curious and stuff now...
