Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
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Isn't THAT against the rules?
Explicitly, no. Those ARE the voted-upon rules that have been in place for years.
t edit I don't mean to sound harsh. It's just -- I'm sorry you don't like the time frame, but it wasn't just arbitrarily pulled out of the air, or even bullshit-consensed upon. It's been in place for a long time.
The original vote on how we vote: Sophia Brooks "Sunnydale Press" Feb 25, 2003 11:55:53 pm PST
And the results: jengod "Sunnydale Press" Mar 3, 2003 12:00:27 am PST
I argue that two weeks is a reasonable time to give people with busy lives time to read what it's all about and then have time to vote. Even a week is rushed, but at least more reasonable than three days.
You're free to put that to a vote, but until then, what we've voted on goes, and has gone for seven years.
You're free to put that to a vote, but until then, what we've voted on goes, and has gone for seven years.
Traffic patterns have changed, at least in some of the threads I follow. Maybe it is time to re-evaluate the voting period. Alas, I belong in the sad camp of those who meant to vote in the last issue, but did not do so in a timely fashion.
Traffic patterns have changed, at least in some of the threads I follow.
I don't understand how that would affect voting. If you're subscribed to Press, you know there's a vote.
I think we might have combusted if some of the more contentious discussions had gone on any longer than they did.
I'd be happy to talk about this more if anyone wants to make an actual proposal.
If you're subscribed to Press, you know there's a vote.
Traffic patterns change because peoples' lives change. The way they choose how to spend their attention changes. Changes in lives can also yield changes in things such as concentration, and decision-making processes. Those changes may cause changes in how promptly they can take an action such as voting.
I'd like to point out that almost everyone here who didn't vote said they meant to, but didn't, not that they didn't know it was going on. In my experience, as someone who surveys extensively as part of my job, extending the voting period does not change results. (In fact, it often lowers particpation because it encourages procrastination.)
What megan said, absolutely.
What Windsparrow said. I knew nothing about the existence of the vote until yesterday, when it was too late.
Point taken, Jesse, about some of the more contentious discussions, but this was not one of them, am I correct? So posting the poll with such a short time frame didn't have anything to do with actually needing an answer right away, it had more to do with the people who were around wanting to get it over with. Which is fine, I guess that's the voted-on procedure, but if the desire was to get participation, the process for this vote did a lot of discourage it, not facilitate it.