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
Wow. I have no recollection of that at all. None. and I probably had an opinion.
At least I'm in good company!
Jen, people even voted, "no preference" on the no preference vote.
Ha! Love.
I am assuming that any proposal which is withdrawn r does not meet 42 can be re-opened for discussion. But now that there is no "no preference" I am not sure that is true.
I seem to recall (and we know what that's worth) that if something doesn't reach 42 votes, then it is supposed to get tabled for the allotted time. Not sure about withdrawn.
Jen, I think you're right. I believe there was one vote that didn't hit 42 and that it could be re-proposed after 6 months.
I seem to recall (and we know what that's worth) that if something doesn't reach 42 votes, then it is supposed to get tabled for the allotted time. Not sure about withdraw
My (possibly faulty) recollection was that we had the "No Preference" vote so that people who did not care, but wanted people to STOP TALKING could do that. That is why I thought that votes that did not reach 42 could be brought up again. But when we take away "no preference" I am confused. But possibly not confused enough to try and go back and find it. Unless there is a cheesebutt link somewhere.
I didn't see anyone!
OK- it is actually still not clear! I made the proposal about the moratorium, and I don't know the answer.
Also, Jon, do you post in press, or the proposer? It looks like the proposer posts the hear ye, hear ye.
ETA: I can't read too much of the discussion because I swear I get flashbacks. I have never talked so much in my entire life.
I don't know what was originally decided via our initial votes and discussions, but here's what's been happening in practice:
- After getting the required secondses, a Stompy opens Lightbulbs and also posts to Press.
- Near the end of the 4 day discussion period, if the proposer hasn't clearly posted final wording for the proposal, I will nudge them to do so in Lightbulbs.
- At the end of the 4 day discussion period, I set up a web ballot and make a post in Press containing a one sentence summary of the issue along with a link to the ballot and the Lightbulbs discussion. Here is an example.
- The one time we did not reach 42 votes (Pix's F2F scheduling calendar thingie), we decided that she'd have to wait 6 months before she could re-propose.
My admittedly vague memory was that the vote over "No Preference" was instigated by proposals being passed because they reached the 42 vote quorum, but the majority of those votes were No Preference, so it would pass with 6 Yes votes or some such.
My understanding is that anything that goes to a vote falls under the 6 month moratorium.
I think we should go with this, but we should note that the cheesebutt document says "There is currently a moratorium in place on re-proposing proposals which have already been discussed and voted down.", so we should theoretically change that.
My understanding was that if it doesn't go to a vote, there's no moratorium.
