'Conviction (1)'
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 much preferred Cindy's "Lightbulb AIFG". I just think "No Big Whoop" is starting the thread off with a discouraging word, not to get all "Home on the Range" on you.
And really, I prefer "Whip Appeal", but since Babyface ain't getting no love around here, I will reluctantly throw my support behind "Lightbulb". Just please get the thing up and running.
OKAY! ONWARD!
Voting Discussion: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Whoop (or)
Voting Discussion: Let's waste time with a lively debate! (or)
Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG! (or)
tag: A thread open only to discuss proposals on the floor for voting. If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
Blurb: We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy. (Which we voted on!)
Makes your decisions and implements this or something similar! Before I get home and turn on my machine! That is all!
Nutty Has Spoken!
Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG! (or)
Of those three, I would choose this one.
OKAY! ONWARD!
Have I told you lately that I love you, Nutty?
Nutty Has Spoken!
And I'm quite ready to obey her!
That's a decision made, and that means in all fairness that we shouldn't be re-making it just because of changes in procedure now.
The point Gandalfe and I are trying to get across is we want to discuss it because of, among other reasons, changes in circumstances, not changes in procedure. There's a war on now. The way I read the discussion, it didn't close off the necessity of a thread, the "consensus" was it wasn't needed at that time. I'm not trying to loophole an old issue b/c of new voting methods. If we were under the old method I'd bring it up now as well. You cannot use the new "closing discussion on an issue rule" to close off this discussion without the benefit of the new "voting procedures". It's unfair.
John, I wasn't criticizing either of those decisions;
That wasn't a serious post, really, sorry. And it's not a big deal, but I don't like "Phoenix" simply because it's kind of a metaphor being used wrongly. There are no ashes. We weren't born out of the fiery destruction of something, we were born of the incredibly annoying unpredictably-recurring lameness of something. To me it's a greater achievement, because we could have stuck it out at WX and put up with the lameness but we didn't.
Go Nutty.
I vote lightbulbs. Lively Debate is more Buffy-related, but "waste time" is derogatory so let's not do that.
You cannot use the new "closing discussion on an issue rule" to close off this discussion without the benefit of the new "voting procedures". It's unfair.
The reasoning of the "closing discussion on an issue" rule was that it was exhausting and annoying to constantly be forced to redebate issues.
It doesn't become any less exhausting and annoying simply because the issue wasn't formally voted on.