'Serenity'
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 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.
Seconded.
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.
Do we need another? Second, in case.
Also, i is confusing and rediculous, but we need to have some freeddom to revisit old decisions within reason. for example, on Salon we decided not to have a natter thread. When we got to WX, we did. So when we went back to Salon, we changed out minds and created natter. If we stood by that decision made three years ago, we wouldn't have natter now.