It seems to me Sophia's proposal should go all the way through the process and discussion (on that item) should close and go to a vote before another topic can get discussed there.

I'm not sure I like the idea of one proposal bumping another. But since the thread can be reopened as soon as the other goes to a vote, it's only a four day hold. I can live with that.

There's no reason we can't futch with the times between discussion and voting and let it all happen at a good time for the people who are going to post the ballot in press, Sophia.

True. I don't think anyone's going to be upset if the discussion time is 4 days + 4 hours. We can open discussion now, and leave all the other start/end times the same.

Let's institute some bullshit consensus on that one, can't we? It's how we've been operating. We've been taking one issue at a time. The issue might spawn mulitiple questions, but first we did voting. Then we did whatever that last thing was. Now we're talking on closing issues.

I was going to ask something else but I'll just wait.

I'm not sure I like the idea of one proposal bumping another.

But it's not -- Sophia's is the only one with enough seconds.

I agree with Jess-- let's start the discussion now, and keep the ther times the same.

Sophia's is the only one with enough seconds.

Agreed.

Also, even tho I'm one of the agitators for the war thread, I think that the other issue needs to be resolved first.

Where do we announce the (temporary) opening of LightBulbs? In Press?

Actually, no I will ask this, even if it does make things work---

why are we waiting until midnight if the number of seconds is reached well before midnight? That doesn't make sense.

I mean, right now we have a discussion ready to be moved over to the thread but according to the rules as I think they are right now, we have to wait until midnight to open the discussion. That's just, frustrating is the very least emotion I'm looking at.

I can't imagine what would happen if a topic got enough seconds at 9 am board time.