Xander ,'Empty Places'
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
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?
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.)
But there's a groundswell in my head for 6.
I hope it's not giving you a headache. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
I am (obviously) torn between 3 and 6.
4 can talk to the hand. It gives me no love.
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!
I didn't like it yesterday. But we came over here, proposed it as certain numbers came up with 3 and 6 and then people wanted 4. It's making me tired.
4 can talk to the hand. It gives me no love.
My sistah.