True dat.
There's something about a food that moves all by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Joyce ,'Never Leave Me'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
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: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
Scrappy - Aug 16, 2007 11:22:13 am PDT #1131 of 6786
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jesse - Aug 16, 2007 11:22:54 am PDT #1132 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And everyone feels like most of their posts get ignored!
Allyson - Aug 16, 2007 11:27:28 am PDT #1133 of 6786
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Seriously. I always feel like the dimmest bulb in the room, here.
sumi - Aug 16, 2007 11:29:36 am PDT #1134 of 6786
Art Crawl!!!
Oh, please.
That is totally me.
Fred Pete - Aug 16, 2007 11:31:21 am PDT #1135 of 6786
Ann, that's a ferret.
Not to mention, Una, it takes practice to be witty. And experience to be wise.
Lurkers who want to break the ice might want to offer birthday or anniversary wishes, or ~ma or hugs. It's painless, and it's the thought that counts.
Not that I took that advice. It literally took 9/11 to get me to leave lurkerdom.
Pix - Aug 16, 2007 11:40:11 am PDT #1136 of 6786
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Others of us just jumped in blindly and flailed around until we figured out what was going on. Not that I recommend that strategy. Luckily people were kind.
Steph L. - Aug 16, 2007 11:42:10 am PDT #1137 of 6786
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Luckily people were kind.
Because you handed out money right off the bat!
Pix - Aug 16, 2007 11:47:18 am PDT #1138 of 6786
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Damn, so it was all bribery?
Sean K - Aug 16, 2007 11:51:51 am PDT #1139 of 6786
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yeah, it's easy to make friends when you give it away, Kristin....
Strega - Aug 16, 2007 11:56:47 am PDT #1140 of 6786
Catching up...
These two things are indirect contradiction with each other, unless you presume that some significant portion of respondants don't think creating a greater threshold for thread creation is the same as revisiting the voting rules.
I understand what you mean, but in my head in my head "revisiting the voting rules" meant eliminating no preference, changing the # for a quorum, shortening the time period, or otherwise altering the who/what/why/how of all votes.
I'm not sure that I'd consider it revisiting the rules if you made that kind of change for one particular type of proposal. Like, if you said for new thread proposals only , the quorum is 60 instead of 42.
And beyond that, you could make it harder for new threads to be created in other ways. It might mean saying, "Only 1 new thead can be created in any 3 month period," or "In order to propose opening a new thread, you must also ask for another thread to be closed" or "if the measure passes, everyone who voted yes has to send ita a dollar." That sort of thing doesn't change the voting process.