Because if all the people who are currently active voters all picked yes or no, then we'd get a clear majority out of the quorum of 42 we already have.

I don't understand this comment. What's a "clear majority"?

In every single thread creation vote we've had, if all the people voting NP had instead not voted, the vote would still have met the quorum of 42 votes.

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I got your vote Denise.

Thanks, Lee.

I guess what I don't get is that if people seriously do want whatever the majority of the yes/no voters want, and vote np in order to pledge their vote that way, why we want to discount that?

What I'm trying to say, clumsily, is, are the reasons that we picked "42" still valid? And, we're considering raising the quorum )I think?) to get more yes or no votes so we have a clear majority of active posters/voters; could we get that with 42 if we eliminated the NP vote?

I've re-written this about nine times in a futile attempt to achieve clarity.

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Who's paying $100 for a lapdance? Is that the going rate in DC?

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The Vote on the quorum and voting process was a while ago, Laura "Sunnydale Press" Mar 19, 2003 12:06:31 am PST but it did have 94 people voting, so a pretty big turnout. Oh yeah, I am in the 70% that don't think it needs revisiting quite yet.

And if the reasons for settling on the number 42 are still valid (I forget what they were), then there'd be no reason to up the quorum. Yes/ No/ I'm a dummy?

If I'm not mistaken, it had to do with wanting a quorum number, not knowing what the number should be, and us being geeky enough to be amused by Hitchhiker's Guide.

could we get that with 42 if we eliminated the NP vote?

Did you understand my previous comment? In every single thread creation vote we've had, if all the people voting NP had instead not voted, the vote would still have met the quorum of 42 votes.

I guess what I don't get is that if people seriously do want whatever the majority of the yes/no voters want, and vote np in order to pledge their vote that way, why we want to discount that?

I agree.

I understood your previous comment, Jon. You asked me to clarify what I said, and I tried. I'm posting from work, and in a hurry, and probably making even less sense than usual, so I'll stop posting now.

If I'm not mistaken, it had to do with wanting a quorum number, not knowing what the number should be, and us being geeky enough to be amused by Hitchhiker's Guide.

No, there was actual math involved -- people submitted numbers via a poll and the average came out to 42.

Right. The question was "How many Buffistas does it take to make a vote count?" and people could enter whatever number they wanted. Then we took the mean of that, and it was 42.