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 if he gets it, are we really going to not let him bring it to the discussion thread, because 36 people weighed in, some changed their minds, some got bored and the we talked about the NAFDA threads, had the monkey naming incident and whatever else?
Yes. That's what I'm proposing. Because we talked about it and we decided not to do it. That's how the process worked. It's only been a month since then. War was maybe 5% less likely then than now. I didn't hear anybody pop up and say "But what if there ISN'T a war?"
This thread has had no problem with several competing discussions. I don't see why the discussion thread would suffer too much. And the rarer it happened, the rarer the sufferage.
Note: I'm no longer making sense to myself. I'm gonna turn in now.
No, we decided to close it during voting - or at least, to close it for the topic of the vote that's
argh
I can't talk anymnaeroree
And I thought the original proposal was "Because there will be a war," not "if there's a war."
No, we decided to keep it open until voting closes.
Oh, okay then. Nevermind.
Sorry Jess-- I was wrong-- we did vote to close the discussion.
Laura "Sunnydale Press" Mar 19, 2003 12:06:31 am EST
gets dizzy from spinning around, falls over
So...yeah! Lightbulbs will only ever be open in 4 day blocks.
No, we decided to close it during voting
Okay, someone, who is not me, is going to have to find that conversation because I really thought we decided to leave it open until voting was closed.
[Edit: Never mind. Clearly, I remembered wrong.]
I don't see why the discussion thread would suffer too much.
Because the whole point of the discussion thread was that it was specific to the one upcoming ballot. It would be concise and people would not have to wade through a bunch of discussion about other issues that weren't relevant to the vote at hand.
And what bitterchick said.
(Again, I am hoping to write some clear procedure to put up somewhere on this site so I don't have t keep finding things without search. because clearly my memory is shot, or I thought everyone vted my way)
I really think discussing more than one issue at a time in the discussion thread will get confusing. I thought one of the problems with Bureaucracy was that 5 people were talking about a War thread, 2 were talking about an All Other TV thread, and 10 (myself included) were debating the relative merits of naming all new threads Monkey in the Middle. It was distracting. Really, I don't think a week is a long time to wait. The process will be much smoother and more transparent if we take issues one at a time.
The whole entire point of the Lightbulb thread is to focus the discussion. It was absolutely created to handle one issue at a time. The idea was to have a definitive beginning and end to discussion before voting. It is one of the few effective brakes we can have on the fact that we are blah blah intensive. We do like to talk and analyze, but it creates its own negative friction. And so it is essential that the Lightbulb thread only deal with one issue at a time.
