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.

Agreeing with sophia, et. al., on consensus and with nutty, et. al., on the beauty of the number 6.

Maybe the vote could be

(a) 6 months (also known as the Number of the Righteous) or (b) my vote doesn't count.

That's how it would work in Iraq....

(a) 6 months or (b) everybody who disagrees with me gets killed and we vote again.

I keep thinking about the fact that the board here is six months old, and what that means. It feels like forever ago that we got here.

Okay, I am indifferent to the "should it be 3 months or 4 months?" question because right now I am leaning to 6 anyway, & I don't see a significant difference between those other two if I decide to change my mind.

Next point: closed issues aren't necessarily verbotten subjects to bring up, they are just not going to be considered for a vote. There's a difference in my book. Notice that Jon can still make jokes about preferential voting.

Last point: call me a stickler, but I see no need for language about "extraordinary circumstances." Honestly, we are a board devoted to ME tv shows--what kinds of extraordinary circumstances are going to come up that will make us all wish to suddenly have, say, a thread devoted to Seth Green's Oeuvre?

Examples of extraordinary circumstances:

(These are mostly hypothetical and do not accurately represent any current discussions.)

1) A vote on whitefonting Angel in Buffy thread, and Buffy in Angel thread. Majority wants all spoilery info whitefonted according to non-NAFDA rules. So the board institutes no posting Buffy info in Angel and vice versa until after Australians see it etc. Then a month or so later, M.E. crosses over the two shows big time. Now it's become impossible to discuss one show without the other, and the overwhelming majority of posters want to do away with the previous rule. But the moratorium says no vote can take place on this for several months (and by that time after one show has ended ends its run.)

2) Joss is floating a new spinoff show - "Willow, the All-Purpose Witch/Hacker/Researcher/Bad Guy Hunter" and everyone's talking about it. It's become the only topic in spoilage lite, and someone wants a new thread for it. The proposal gets voted down. Two months later the show starts airing on CBS after Touched by An Angel.

3) Nutty's cottage cheese Butt announces its candidacy for president of the united states. But the board last week voted down a Nutty Butt thread, and now it's taking over Natter.

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(a) 6 months or (b) everybody who disagrees with me gets killed and we vote again.

It's the Council of Nicea all over again t /obscure Bible history refernce

I think 4 or 6 are the logical choices, and I'm being very quickly swayed to the 6 is the One True Answer faction, however I'm still open to bribery.

Also, I was previously of the mind that language about extraordinary circumstances was needed, but I think Kat may have conviced me otherwise.

I think that extraordinary circumstances demand extraordinary responses.

I.e. we make it up when it happens.

For instance, we handled Sept. 11th perfectly contentedly (odd choice of phrase there) in Natter. Should something equivalent happen, I'm sure we'll be able to agree on whether to new-thread it within a couple of hours. Your surety may vary.