Wolfram we don't want to close issues to keep people from having their say. We want to close issues because sometimes it's hard to divorce feeling from position on an issue. And if we don't accept the decisions made by people who voted (or didn't vote, or didn't second), what we're doing is picking at scabs. Picking at scabs is bad for the community. Picking at scabs is worse for the community than "not changing" any single topic that has been shut down for Xmonths. That's what it's all about - keeping this a happy and satisfying experience.

Agreed. I'm actually proposing making it harder to open a moratoriumed issue and that old style consensus may be too easy. Issues need to be closed. I'm just suggesting that there be a structured process to breaking a moratorium and that it be difficult to do, but doable when overwhelmingly necessary.

Note: This has nothing to do with my position on the war thread vote, and my opinion here may actually be contrary to the best interests of getting that thread to a vote.

Care to explain why?

It's tidier?

It's tidier?

It's prettier but I don't see any benefits to it.

Pretty is good. Some numbers just make me all happy and righteous. Like 42. And 17.

And 6.

So that leaves 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6 months. 1 and 2 are way too short. How about we put on the ballot: choice a) 3 or 4 choice b) 6

If choice a) wins we have a new ballot.

Or we can do prefmmphhnoholhh

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I'd rather have a sensible pick than a pretty one.

6 is it! Because who needs more divisors than that?

And can I say how pleased I am that my cheese butt thread notion has become general voting parlance? Carry on!

My thinking on the extraordinary circumstances is to set the bar at a clearly high mark. Also known as, the circumstances should have to be extraordinary enough and clear enough that a bunch of people all at once say, Gee, need to reconsider. Also known as, a Bureaucracy consensus.

(Also, much as I might approve a suddent TV programming move to All Butt All the Time, TV doesn't generally happen so quickly that we can't anticipate the boob tube. I mean, we fought over how westerns and sci fi are or are not alike for 2,000 posts in the Firefly thread before Firefly ever aired.)

As long as the ballot has exactly two choices and one of them is 6, I'm okay with it.

Because 6 is the One True Way. Go 6! Choose 6!

All Butt on the boob tube. There's a joke in there somewhere but I'm too tired to find it.

As long as the ballot has exactly two choices and one of them is 6, I'm okay with it.

Yes, this.