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
I was thinking we should add a simple
What is our "discipline" policy? Idiscipline is a bad word)
with the answer basically being this proposal
msbelle "Sunnydale Press" Apr 19, 2003 12:02:50 am PDT
And a
How do I propose a change in the board?
We vote here at the Buffistas
Step One: Make a proposal in Bureaucracy
Step Two: There must be 4 "seconds" in Bureaucracy
Step Three: If there are enough seconds, a Stompy Foot will open up Lightbulbs.
Step Four: An Announcement linking to the discussion will be placed in Press
Step Five: There will be four days of discussion in Lightbulbs where all community members can weight in.
Step Six: After this discussion, the proposer makes a final proposal. He/She can reword the proposal based on discussion or choose to withdraw. Although it is not required, it is highly recommended that the proposer follow all discussion to craft a proposal that accommodates the wishes of the board
Step Seven: A volunteer for vote counting is taken
Step Eight: Lightbulbs is closed and the voting opened
Step Nine An announcement is placed in Press regarding the voting and stating the closing day
Step Ten: We vote for three days
Step Eleven: The volunteer vote counter announces the results
Voting Validation: A simple majority wins for each question. An option which receives more than 50% of the vote wins We encourage Yes/No/No Preference answers
A "quorum' of 42 Buffistas must vote (including No Preference votess) for the vote to be valid
Step Twelve: Action is taken or not based on the vote ,br>
Step Thirteen: No more discussion of this topic is allowed for 6 months, at which time discussion is again open.
Wow, that is hard to read, but I gotta go back to work!
Butting my nose in again-
I am advocating for both the cheesebutt document and the simple answers I put above, either in the same document or in separate places, because I think cheesebutt is too much to wade through if you just want an answer to how many seconds you need or whatever.
ETA: Of course there is a short checklist in there, I just didn't see it. I am not sure whether or not that proves my point, or just points out my stupidity
We should address it in the header on the frontpage.
::snerk:: Always the radical, msbelle.
Personally, I'd rather not include Gus in the FAQ, because I just don't want to give whoever-he-was any more attention and bandwidth than he's already gotten from us.
Full (outdated) cheesebutt text.
To me that looks like a very separate project. I could maybe take that on later in the year, but maybe for now I could put a few brief procedural things within the FAQ as Sophia suggests.
BTW, I can see that the URL of the cheesebutt doc shows that it is hosted under the FAQ, but I don't see a link to the cheesebutt document in the FAQ itself. Is there one?
Is there one?
No. It was never made ready enough for prime time.
Personally, I'd rather not include Gus in the FAQ, because I just don't want to give whoever-he-was any more attention and bandwidth than he's already gotten from us.
For what it is worth, I have agreed with everything Steph has said on this issue, but especially this comment.
Which is why I'm hating myself for allowing my entire morning to be eaten by going back in time to revisit something that I really should have left alone...then and now.
Personally, I'd rather not include Gus in the FAQ, because I just don't want to give whoever-he-was any more attention and bandwidth than he's already gotten from us.
What she said.
Where can we get t-shirts/sign/bumperstickers that says "What Teppy said"? It would make life simpler, and baffle the hell out of my meatspace co-habitants.
