Oh. Confused now.

Okay, I'll be away from thread for a bit. Again, (ominous voice), this isn't over.

Moved from the voting thread:

Wolfram asked:

if the Firefly thread hadn't opened, and a several weeks later the Firefly posts in other threads had just gotten rampant would you agree that the Firefly discussion had been closed for a signficant period of time, or would the issue have been revisited?

My understanding of the rules is that a decision, once made, is closed for the next six months. If we decide that posters must not post links, and then linking to blogs starts to seem like a lot of fun, too bad; the decision is closed for six months.

Did other people have a different understanding of that vote?

Okay my understanding of how the new system works is this:

1. Wolfram proposes re-opening the War Thread discussion.
2. Four people must second his motion.
3. Then we move over to the Voting Discussion Thread.

Until then, we stay here.

Am I wrong?

Closed for the moment.

Revisiting things is what got this place in trouble in the first place.

Oh, and so did, oh, say, having some server load issues, though that was separate trouble. Related, kind of.

Actually Betsy, I thought we had consensed on 6 months, but actually a few people (Plei is the only one I remember) thought that was too long and wanted 3. So I think we have to vote on that.

I can propose it now.

Wrong. Reopening the war thread discussion is a sweeping policy change. Once you do it, it's done. I fully expect that we'll be revisiting the TV thread and the politics thread and whatever else we had decided against in the past three months.

Reluctantly, I have to disagree with this. I don't want to see old decisions revisited either. But wasn't part of the rationale for voting at all that after a vote we could officially call a subject closed? As in "every couple of months someone brings up the politics thread and we have to discuss this again. If we voted and it lost, no one could bring it up again for six months." I can't fully agree that the fact that we voted to vote means that these subjects are now closed.

I hate to even say this, because I don't want to get into this issue again, and I think the war thread idea was discussed and decided and should be a done deal. But I'm not sure closing the issue, or other issues that came up in the past, is the right way to be going about this.

Yes. Propose.

you're making the decision to not revisit old "consensus decisions" by consensus, which is the old way. The new way would be to vote:

Should decisions made previously by consensus be closed or open to voting under the new voting mechanism?

This looked logical to me for a second, but now it doesn't.

All decisions before voting were arrived at by "consensus". The decision that old ones wouldn't be reopened was arrived at by "consensus" too. But the decision to have a vote on future decision-making was arrived at by "consensus" too because that was the only decision we had at the time.

If we go back and revisit all the decisions made BC, we undo all the work we've done on the new system.

ahahahahahahaha

Temporal paradox! Temporal paradox!