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
Because the form will happily let me vote a second time, it seems.
In the future we probably need to address that.
OK, I'm a little drunk, but "duh". All my form does is send an email to somebody. There's no writing to any tables. There are plans to make the voting tabulation an automated thing so that no one will have to manually count them like what happens now. A part of that automated voting thingie will be a mechanism that either prevents a user from voting twice, or changes their vote or something. We'll have to decide that when the time comes.
And THANK YOU Sophia for dealing with the late night last minute stuff you dealt with. The argument summaries are great.
The argument summaries are great.
They're really beautiful.
Just wanted to pop in and pass along my compliments to the folks who toil away thinking about these rules of order. I'm happy not being part of the inner circle (notice how I avoided saying Gang of 14) because you guys do a great job working out basic questions, formulating them well, and making it easy and fun for us kittens to vote.
In short, thank you.
Thanks Java Cat for posting the voting times in Press!
One quibble on the position summaries:
Please, we are closing discussion for six months once the issue is voted on.
This implies that this has been decided on. I know it's been discussed a lot, but it's not official yet, right? I'd be happier with something along the lines of "we may be closing discussion for a time (such as six months) once the issue is voted on".
Very well-summarized arguments for and against, that was a good job indeed!
PS I move we change the name of the Gang of Fourteen to the Invisible Legislators. Unfortunately I can't quite locate the original quotation, but it was to the effect that poets are the invisible legislators of history. Maybe Victor or Thessaly know it better....
Changed. That was where I was quoting from someone and kept the original wording. Oops!
Would it muddy the waters more, or less, to go back and vote a second time? Not suggesting it, just asking the question.
I only have one double vote, and the choices are identical, and they are sent a few seconds apart, so clealy just an error. If someone (RL) made an error when they sent their ballot and would like to correct it I don't mind making the change. Send me a note.
Wasn't the six month thing part of what we already voted? if not, does that mean we have to have another vote on this? Wasn't closing discussion once something was decided one of the main points of voting for voting?
Sophia and everyone, thanks so much for writing up that pros&cons thing. It's amazingly helpful.
