'Cuz I knew you'd just shrug if I said the phrase "preferential voting" whereas for most of us there's an involuntary flinch at its mention.
Not all of us, though. Not for the Actuaries of the Damned.
Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.
'Serenity'
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!
billytea - Oct 27, 2004 5:46:15 pm PDT #4927 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.
DavidS - Oct 27, 2004 5:48:20 pm PDT #4928 of 10289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Not all of us, though. Not for the Actuaries of the Damned.
I should note that San Francisco is instituting preferential voting for this next election.
flinch
twitch
brenda m - Oct 27, 2004 5:58:14 pm PDT #4929 of 10289
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Man, you'll all be lucky if you don't develop a permanent tic.
billytea - Oct 27, 2004 6:03:54 pm PDT #4930 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.
I should note that San Francisco is instituting preferential voting for this next election.
See, I knew I was living on the wrong coast.
I'm more looking forward to Colorado's referendum on whether to change their winner-take-all EC system. If that passes, and it winds up making a difference to who wins this election... Well. I think the legal challenges might produce a President about in time for the next electoral campaign.
Kat - Oct 27, 2004 6:25:22 pm PDT #4931 of 10289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
it might be nice to have a poll to size up how many people are interested in a no-whitefont thread.
I just want to note this: I am so happy that there hasn't been a poll.
The whole point in voting is that it IS a poll. If you propose something and it passes WOOT! If not, oh, shit. Bummer. But to propose, table, poll, reconsider, propose again was expressly what I personaly hoped voting would avoid... the drawn out nature of the process.
DavidS - Oct 27, 2004 6:31:11 pm PDT #4932 of 10289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yeah, no poll. It was useful for the other recent proposal since it validated the interest in a Lost thread. Here we just need an up and down vote.
Liese S. - Oct 27, 2004 7:32:49 pm PDT #4933 of 10289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha. NM has a state ballot issue about whether we should institute run-offs for certain municipal races. I thought about the Buffistas and my greatly expanded understanding of plurality. Still haven't worked out which way I'm going to vote for that one.
Meanwhile, I want the spoilers folks to have a happy home. I understand that much has been done to accommodate my generally lack-spoiler viewpoint, and I appreciate it. I hope we work it out so that folks can get what they need.
No actual opinion here as to what that actually is.
Kristen - Oct 27, 2004 8:48:24 pm PDT #4934 of 10289
Hey -- does anyone know, easily, what the proposal leaderboard looks like? Anyone made more than one? Two?
I had to go look. And, as far as I can tell, there is only one person who has made two proposals. Sophia Brooks made the original proposal on whether or not we should have a formal voting system and then made the proposal wherein we hammered out procedure.
I want to make it clear I bear her no ill will. She was simply the unfortunate soul who could organize our debates into something resembling English.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 27, 2004 8:59:06 pm PDT #4935 of 10289
What is even happening?
Yeah, I think we owe Sophia a kidney or something.
Jon B. - Oct 28, 2004 2:07:38 am PDT #4936 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Speaking for myself, I don't want even whitefonted hard core spoilers in a spoilage lite thread.
Wolfram is me. For the same reasons he gave:
One accidental uncovering of a whitefont and you've just spoiled an essential plot point for half a season. I don't want to traverse a minefield of hard core spoilers in spoilage lite.
I don't see how Brenda's #2 solves this.