'The Message'
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 hope people aren't making up quorum to salve feelings. That's not what it's for. It's supposed to be an indicator of concern for the issues at hand. If you don't care about the vote, don't vote.
For my part, I am paying closer attention to votes that are being held, so that I am making a conscious choice to vote or abstain, rather than just letting my attention slide.
Didn't we used to have a 3rd vote option -- (1) yes, (2) no, and (3) something else which indicated "I don't have a preference on the outcome but I am voting in order to make a quorum"?
Or did we stop doing that? (Well, obviously we did, because that wording hasn't been in recent votes.) Was there a reason we stopped that? Because my memory is lousy and I'm just curious.
quorum has been reached.
something else
I seem to recall a vote with the option, "ooh! clickybox!"
We voted to get rid of the "No Preference" option: Nilly "Sunnydale Press" May 22, 2008 11:51:26 pm PDT
Note that the vote itself included a "No Preference" option. I love us so much.
Thank you for propping up my swiss-cheese memory! Dang, I totally forgot about that vote.
Yeah, I'd forgotten it too. At the time, I remember feeling somewhat passionately in favor of Only Vote If You Actually Care, but now that I look back, I (a) never contributed to the discussion at the time and (b) totally forgot about the whole thing until you scratched my memory and I said "huh, we DID have a no preference at some point!"
I know we've had this discussion before. I must also apologize for my Sam Beckett memory. Would someone please tell me again what percentage of active posters is 42?
Define "active"!
(Seriously. We had that discussion during our painful constitutional birthing period, decided that we'd never agree on most-recent-posting vs post-frequency vs posts-in-which-threads vs ..., and 42 is an awesome number and the meaning of life the universe and everything. Hey, don't we have a cheesebutt...?)
OK, how about, total registered 'ffistas? My wee (and pretty much moot) point is that 42 is a small number.