The confirmation email doesn't have anything to do with the vote counter. It's sent out automatically. Check your spam folder and see if it got tossed aside.

I know, but it's not in my spam folder. I thought maybe the vote counter could confirm whether or not my vote had been received. I've never had a problem recieving the confirms before.

Ha! I just checked my spam folder and my own address was blocked.

See, in my list I didn't even put Plei, Laura orJessica, which is of course insane.

I also think the core changes with how much people post. MM was a core Buffista for a while, and now posts less. Still a Buffista OF COURSE but maybe not a "core" one.

The first rule of Bitch Cabal is we do not talk about Bitch Cabal.

The second rule of Bitch Cabal is we DO NOT TALK about Bitch Cabal.

Rule number six: There is NO rule number six.

This concludes the reading of the rules.

Hear, hear, well spoken Bruce!

There is also no spoon.

There is no spoon, there is only ZOOL!!!

t hugs Buffistas tight

Numerically, no, but I still feel like it's created an expectation that it's okay or even encouraged to vote "what she said" rather than what you actually think of the proposal. And if voting was supposed to reduce BS consensing, that's not the direction to go. (Down with NP!!)

I concur with this. I think coupled with a higher quorum it would make a difference.

Any ideas on what would work best if we rasied the quorum?

I'm attached to a percentage of users - either active posters (by one of ita's counts), or of total registered users.

I'm not sure where to peg that percentage though it should produce a number higher than 42.

I feel like I said core first, since it came from the Clay Shirky article. But by "core" what I mean is people who agree with me in every way. The rest of you are out-group!

Every time I try to define "Core Buffista" to myself, the definition spreads wider and wider until it finally includes everyone who's ever posted (except for the three people who got themselves suspended/banned). Every time I try to stump myself by naming someone who's a Buffista but not core, I find myself sliding them over into core.

I never, ever, ever post with Le Nubian; we're never active in the same threads (I lurk occasionally in one of the spoiler threads and see him/her there, but that's it), I can go months without seeing the username -- and, yet, the tiny bits of LN's brains I have seen are beautifully spicy, and LN has been around forever and ever (since TT?), and I like knowing that s/he is still around someplace, even in threads I don't go into, and if I found out that s/he had unregistered and vanished I'd feel mournful.

Madrigal, John H, Theresa, Phill, Rayne, Holli, jengod, John Sweden, erinaceous, Betsy -- rarely here anymore, but still core in my brain. Susan and Cindy never stopped being core, even when they and b.org were on a break. Heck, even buffysmglover, all new and shiny and everything, makes me grin every time I see his pixels just 'cause he's all brave about posting his fic for this huge band of friendly stranger and 'cause he's about the same age Holli was when she first posted. And every time a lurker delurks, I get embarrassingly squeeful.

In my brain, anyone who actually takes the time and effort to post = core. Which is not even to say that the lurkers might not be reading and thinking and voting and sending money to Jesse and thus being secretly core, but if they don't post I can't see them and I have no way of knowing their coreness.

The above was probably a singularly useless and blathering post, and yet I'm going to click Post Message anyway. So there!