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Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
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!
Kristen - Jul 07, 2004 6:28:56 pm PDT #4335 of 10289
Gris - Jul 07, 2004 7:03:04 pm PDT #4336 of 10289
Hey. New board.
You skip a hundred posts, and come up NSYNC.
See why you should read buffistas constantly?
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Hil R. - Jul 07, 2004 7:07:11 pm PDT #4337 of 10289
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I have to say I'm really against having any sort of designated discussion leader. Right now, I still haven't decided how I'm voting, but having something like that would absolutely push me to "no."
Also, I'm in favor of simple and mostly random ways of picking books. Either (a) everybody who wants to suggest something suggests it, and then the books are randomly chosen from those, or (b) everyone who wants to be a book-suggester says so, and then each of them is randomly assigned a month to suggest a book. I'd really really really rather not have a long discussion or voting to determine what to read; I'd rather have a simple mechanism to decide it, so that the focus of the thread can be the actual books, not discussion of which books deserve to be read.
Daisy Jane - Jul 07, 2004 7:16:50 pm PDT #4338 of 10289
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Agree with Hil on the simplicity thing.
Allyson - Jul 07, 2004 7:26:09 pm PDT #4339 of 10289
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'd rather have a simple mechanism to decide it, so that the focus of the thread can be the actual books, not discussion of which books deserve to be read.
But that's part of deciding which book to read, isn't it? You'd sort of have to suggest it, pitch it, and see what happens...not unlike where to have the F2F, right?
I think I'm arguing from Worst Case Scenario.
"The Evil Romance Novel Cabal Always Wins and My Coming of Age Sci-Fi Clown College Dentisty for the Teenage Soul Book Never Gets Picked and It's So UNFAIR!"
Again, I'm a fan of bullshit consensus, and I'd be happiest (and I think it's sort of fun) for folks to sort of pimp for their favorite books, because then, there's all kinds of good recommendations, as well.
Hil R. - Jul 07, 2004 7:29:58 pm PDT #4340 of 10289
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
"The Evil Romance Novel Cabal Always Wins and My Coming of Age Sci-Fi Clown College Dentisty for the Teenage Soul Book Never Gets Picked and It's So UNFAIR!"
This is one of the reasons I prefer just having every suggest a book or two, and then randomly picking from that list. I really don't want to start getting into stuff like that, and I can see it happening very easily.
sumi - Jul 07, 2004 7:33:37 pm PDT #4341 of 10289
Art Crawl!!!
Well, we could have a week each month or maybe a day every two weeks in which books get suggested, because it would be better to have books lined up well in advance of when they are going to be discussed.
(I belong to my local library book club -- the leader of the discussion is one of the librarians. She makes the list for the year during the summer and is open to suggestions. Most of the books aren't the newest out there-- because she has to obtain copies for the whole group largely through inter-library loan.)
billytea - Jul 07, 2004 7:34:48 pm PDT #4342 of 10289
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This is one of the reasons I prefer just having every suggest a book or two, and then randomly picking from that list.
That's cool. Or when it comes time to choose the next book, we can designate a post number about fifty posts ahead, and whoever successfully numbersluts for it gets to choose the next book, and then you get about fifty posts in a row of people just posting "SLUT!" "SLUT!" "SLUT!" "SLUT!" "SLUT!" "IN YOUR FACE, TROLLOPE PIMPS!" Only then one month you'll have a tie as two people grab the same number, and then we go to a whore-off.
Trudy Booth - Jul 07, 2004 8:25:31 pm PDT #4343 of 10289
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
This is one of the reasons I prefer just having every suggest a book or two, and then randomly picking from that list.
So much "yes" as to be infinite.
Wolfram - Jul 08, 2004 3:43:30 am PDT #4344 of 10289
Visilurking
Allyson, from way back:
Which is why I'm trying to hammer out a How, a simple, easy to apply How, so that I can enjoy the thing, too. I'm looking for the eureka of it, because otherwise I'd vote no just to avoid the mess. Is where I'm coming from on it. From a completely selfish standpoint, that.
This is going to be one of those things that we learn by actually doing it. We've had a number of good suggestions and a number of possible pitfalls. There's no way to predict what will happen, and some small element of this vote is going to have to be based on optimism and faith in the Buffistas.
That being said, I think that bullshit consensus (with the possible assistance of Mr. Poll,) at least for the first few books, is probably going to be the easiest way to get the ball rolling, and either the thead will work, or it will adapt to fit a new system that will work.
And Allyson, from not so way back:
Again, I'm a fan of bullshit consensus, and I'd be happiest (and I think it's sort of fun) for folks to sort of pimp for their favorite books, because then, there's all kinds of good recommendations, as well.
Yep.