Man, you'll all be lucky if you don't develop a permanent tic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, I think we owe Sophia a kidney or something.

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.

My thought was that people who only wanted lite spoilage wouldn't have to highlight at all, reducing the chance of accidental spoilage, as opposed to all whitefont, where it's very easy to grab more than you want. Not a perfect solution, no, but I think it'd be better than all whitefont all the time.

For myself, I generally either don't care about being spoiled or don't want anything, not even lite spoilage, which puts me more in ita's situation. But it's a compromise I can live with if it helps resolve this. If it won't, all white font would be my preference.

I have nothing on-topic to say, other than this is the second vote in which I have nothing on-topic to say (being from a not-updated-tv-watching across-the-ocean-y audience group prevents me from that). And that's strange - I miss being able to have an opinion.

Also, le nubian? You are dealing with all this bureaublahblah with such consideration to the needs of the participants, really trying for what may be best for the largest number of people, re-drafting things and listening to people whose wishes are so different than yours - I almost wish I could be spoiled for shows I have no idea about, so that I'd get to post with you more in Spoilers.

[Edit: not to say that the other people who proposed votes didn't behave this way as well, because they totally did! Only, usually, I had an opinion to follow and therefore was busy trying to follow that. Now, that I was just reading, I could look at things "from the outside", so to speak.]

(Yeah, even though I can't possibly have an opinion as to what is going on in here, I still skimmed the discussion. I wanted to know what I don't have an opinion about).