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
See, I'm just not so sure about this (and I'm number 14, FWIW). A big part of the impetus for voting at all was to be able to implement the stop-discussion time limit on things that kept coming up, like a politics thread. So my understanding was that we'd throw it up for a vote, it would (most likely) get voted down, and then we'd have an instituted policy that allowed us to prevent it's being brought up again. But I think we're skipping over a step here.
I basically agree with this. I don't think I personally had a clear feeling about how the new procedure would or should affect past decisions.
And honestly, if we think bandwidth is becoming a problem, I reserve my right to move to start eliminating threads.
See, I'm just not so sure about this (and I'm number 14, FWIW). A big part of the impetus for voting at all was to be able to implement the stop-discussion time limit on things that kept coming up, like a politics thread. So my understanding was that we'd throw it up for a vote, it would (most likely) get voted down, and then we'd have an instituted policy that allowed us to prevent it's being brought up again. But I think we're skipping over a step here.
Me, uh, four at this point (unless I'm cross-posting). I don't feel strongly about it, mind you.
See, I'm just not so sure about this (and I'm number 14, FWIW). A big part of the impetus for voting at all was to be able to implement the stop-discussion time limit on things that kept coming up, like a politics thread. So my understanding was that we'd throw it up for a vote, it would (most likely) get voted down, and then we'd have an instituted policy that allowed us to prevent it's being brought up again. But I think we're skipping over a step here.
Me too, actually. I am not sure we discussed it. I think that I thought people wouldn't bring up old issues unless they needed to.
I do know, one of the examples people used when they mentioned eventually taking a vote to end discussions for a period of time was "the war thread". So that may be where our particular feeling of "no - this one is settled" comes from. In fact, Sophia might have used the war thread as an example of something that was closed in some of her early list or ballot posts or issue explanations.
So...are we going with the procedural vote about re-opening consensus decisions or not? Is that next in the que?
Sophia might have used the war thread as an example of something that was closed in some of her early list or ballot posts or issue explanations.
I'm pretty sure she did, because I remember thinking, "Huh, I didn't know that was finalized."
I looked at that post, but IIRC she used it as a theoretical example of what happens after we vote something down. But let me go look and make sure.
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2. HOW we decide things, because I think that will eliminate any of this talking and talking and talking about something until finally we don't decide. Or make a decision because people objecting have left the thread Suggestions
Closed Decisions (ex: War Thread has been voted against, no more requests for 6 months) (This still needs to be dealt with)
Yea, "ex. war thread" was the example Sophia used.
My sense is, the grandfather clause proposal made it to the lightning round next, so we do that next. We might then want to decide to make an exception for a potential war thread, but then we might not.
My sense is, the grandfather clause proposal made it to the lightning round next, so we do that next. We might then want to decide to make an exception for a potential war thread, but then we might not.
yes, this.
I don't even know how I meant the example, it was so long ago that that original list was made.
Has there been any consensus (YdefinitionofconsensusMV) on rearranging the threads and/or trimming the slugs? I haven't seen any dissent, but then again, it's a small topic drowning in a sea of much bigger and more controversial topics.
