I'm happy to try PV on this one, partly because of my conviction that it's more complicated in theory than it is in practice. We've got very simple ballot questions here, too, rather than three or more options without a lot of overlap, as could happen in the future. Jon's ballot write-up looks fine to me.

Hello all! I have missed you so very much.

Here’s the thing, I have been getting sunburnt in the keys for 6 whole days and now I see 799 messages in Beauracracy and 390 in this new shiny thread. I’m not going to read them.

I would be ever so grateful if someone would summarize what the heck is going on. Via profile address is fine, or here as I will try and keep up with new stuff.

I have decided that I would rather threadsuck and skim some other threads. I have the following to consider:

Bitches – 2044 new Natter - 3248 new Buffy – 322 new

Yikes! Even Spoilage lite has 49 new.

btw - love the thread title

Congratulations to all on the debate. At no time did anyone resort to hurling the epithet 'sixist'. Very civilized.

Gus, you tempter. Shame. Now I must. And it's all on your head!

SIXIST

There, I feel much better now.

FWIW, I don't give a patootie about how we decide this ballot, mostly because I think it's a forgone (foregone?) conclusion that we'll end up with six, which is a horrible number and will cause us all to bleed from the eyeballs. Don't post that I didn't warn you, because I won't be able to see, what with the aforementioned bleeding from the eyeballs.

Laura, we're about to vote on how long of a moratorium on discussion there should be following a vote. Right now it looks like 6, 4, and 3 months will be the choices, but we're still stuck on PV or sequential run-offs if necessary.

Next up will be a vote on whether the moratorium applies automatically to any decisions made before we instituted voting.

Voting on the first one is slated to start at midnight tonight.

Plus - we're all gonna bleed out from the eyeballs.

But Cindy, we'll be able to revisit it in six months, if you want to.

I don't like eyeball-bleeding. I'm gonna take a stand and say it's not good.

Goforfour

So before midnight we decide on the method of voting on a choice of 6,4 or 3 months. I suppose I can suck and skim for empassioned arguments for each time period and the method of deciding same. I don't really have to read almost 1200 messages to get the major points, right?

How about we decide each time we have a vote how long before we discuss it again? BWAHAHAHAHA

Sixists, Threeps and Fourmongers. Why can't we all get along?

I still don't see anyone really against doing an instant runoff (i.e. prfffmmmmng), so I went ahead and coded up a ballot. It's a dummy ballot. The "Send" button won't work until midnight. Comments on content?