But I think that, if someone cares about 3 vs 4, regardless of how he plans to actually vote, he should have a say.
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Burrell - Mar 22, 2003 11:42:20 am PST #230 of 10289
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Kat - Mar 22, 2003 11:43:53 am PST #231 of 10289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'd suggest having 3, 4, 6 as the options. If we have to have a runoff, okay. No big. But there's a groundswell in my head for 6 (and I see lots of enthusiastic 6-pushers here) so maybe we would get majority + 1 the first time around even with three options.
Why not try it and see?
Jessica - Mar 22, 2003 11:55:57 am PST #232 of 10289
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
If we can't come to a consensus for 3 vs 4, I'd rather have a ballot with "Put a number between 2 and 8* in this box" (average the results, round to the nearest integer) than three choices, just to get to the final answer quicker.
(*2 and 8 months seeming like the absolute lowest and highest reasonable time limits to me, but obviously that's up for debate.)
Lee - Mar 22, 2003 11:56:12 am PST #233 of 10289
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
But there's a groundswell in my head for 6.
I hope it's not giving you a headache. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
Cindy - Mar 22, 2003 12:54:05 pm PST #234 of 10289
Nobody
If we can't come to a consensus for 3 vs 4, I'd rather have a ballot with "Put a number between 2 and 8* in this box" (average the results, round to the nearest integer) than three choices, just to get to the final answer quicker.
(*2 and 8 months seeming like the absolute lowest and highest reasonable time limits to me, but obviously that's up for debate.)
I think this too. It's how we got to perfect number 42 on the minimum vote total. Average it. Then we can stop having the 3 or 4 discussion.
Burrell - Mar 22, 2003 12:58:24 pm PST #235 of 10289
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I don't like the idea of averaging. I want to vote either between 6 & 3 or 6 & 4. It's cleaner. Plus, I feel like it's silly of us not to be able to come to some agreement on 3 versus 4. Egad!
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2003 1:17:41 pm PST #236 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't like averaging either. I vote for 6 (or 3 or 4) because that's what I want it to be. Not 5.7. Or 5.
If we can't pick between 3 and 4, make a three choice ballot.
Noumenon - Mar 22, 2003 1:47:45 pm PST #237 of 10289
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
We voted for the right thing on majority/plurality. Having both 3 and 4 months on the ballot won't split the 3-month vote, because we'll probably have a runoff.
Gus - Mar 22, 2003 1:59:30 pm PST #238 of 10289
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Maybe I'm just in a great mood, or something. I've been reading through a threadsuck of this and laughing like a loon. It is like a really tounge-in-cheek mathematical "Waiting for Godot."
ESTRAGON:
You gave me a fright.
VLADIMIR:
I thought it was three.
ESTRAGON:
Four?
VLADIMIR:
Godot. No. Monkey.
ESTRAGON:
Pah! The wind in the reeds. 'Twas six.
VLADIMIR:
I could have sworn I heard shouts.
ESTRAGON:
And why would three shout?
VLADIMIR:
At his horse.
Silence.
ESTRAGON:
(violently). I'm hungry!
P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2003 2:55:55 pm PST #239 of 10289
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I am (obviously) torn between 3 and 6.
4 can talk to the hand. It gives me no love.