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?
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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.
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Katie M - Mar 20, 2003 4:24:01 pm PST #8265 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 20, 2003 4:24:12 pm PST #8266 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
Nutty Has Spoken!
And I'm quite ready to obey her!
Wolfram - Mar 20, 2003 4:24:28 pm PST #8267 of 10001
Visilurking
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 H - Mar 20, 2003 4:24:32 pm PST #8268 of 10001
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.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2003 4:24:41 pm PST #8269 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Go Nutty.
John H - Mar 20, 2003 4:26:00 pm PST #8270 of 10001
I vote lightbulbs. Lively Debate is more Buffy-related, but "waste time" is derogatory so let's not do that.
Gandalfe - Mar 20, 2003 4:26:04 pm PST #8271 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2003 4:26:11 pm PST #8272 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
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.
bicyclops - Mar 20, 2003 4:26:16 pm PST #8273 of 10001
We voted to decide things by voting, not consensus from whoever was in Beauracracy on a couple of days in the past.
That said, I'll be the third second (after Gandalfe and Noni) on the war thread.
Absolutely. Or some of us will lose our minds.
Some of us already lost our minds at the results of that last vote.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 20, 2003 4:26:19 pm PST #8274 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Before we discuss anything, there are 2 things that need to be done.
1. Open a Voting Discussion Thread.
2. Decide how long discussion are closed for (3 months, 6 months, 1 year are the proposals I've seen)
3. Which of course is going to lead to the inevitable-- how do we count that discussion.
Also, I am not sure whether this is a NEW war thread proposal, because no we actually have a war, in which case we should hear it out or a revival of the old one, which was defeated by our non-working consensus method, and therefore we can't bring it up again for an unspecified period of time.
Also, I don't THINK we have to vote to get a thread or an HTML page that lists the votes, results, and when they were so that we can refer to it if peopl emake new proposals.