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
but we never said decisions of the old system could be revisited.
Actually, back in the discussion on whether or not we should have a voting method, this was specifically addressed and agreed (by the buffista version of consensus) that we would NOT revisit any previous decisions.
Also, said in voting thread just before it closed, that 6 months seemed to have the most support, but 3 months and 1 year were also mentioned in regard to closing discussion after a decision had been made.
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If we go back and revisit all the decisions made BC, we undo all the work we've done on the new system.
Yeah, and I'll start making re-cock-u-lous proposals like, oh "Natter was decided by con. Let's vote on the Natter need."
I'm with John. Just because the system has changed, doesn't mean that the OLD results are invalid.
I would second a discussion on topic dormancy.
Also, it might be a good idea--for sanity's sake--to make a list of all decisions made during the last six months. If no one else wants to do it, I'll threadsuck and make the list sometime this weekend.
Edit: the purpose of the list would be to track which topics were officially grandfathered in as "closed" topics, and when they'd be open for discussion again.
Temporal paradox! Temporal paradox!
Exactly -- we only took a vote on new decision-making procedures because it was decided by consensus. That decision is now invalid, or revisitable? But it led to the voting system you want to use to start a war thread.
You've just murdered your own grandfather.
PROPOSAL:
When we first started this whole voting thing, our ultimate goal was to be able to close discussions and not have them over and over and over and over....
So I propose that:
After a proposal, discussion and vote, further discussion on this matter should be closed for:
3 months 6 months 1 year
In discussion, I would like to narrow this to 2 choices so we need not get into trying to decide how to vote.
Anne is a goddess, but we knew that.
I agree that the next vote should be on how long a discussion gets shut down.
I'll be a third second.
You've just murdered your own grandfather.
Actually, he died before I was born or thought of.
disappears in puff of logic
I think 1 year is too long. I don't have a solid opinion on the other two.
