Jon, thanks for that.

I'll have the ballot ready this afternoon.

Thanks, Nilly.

ita - Can you please point votes@ back to Nilly?

I should be around all day, but just in case here's ballot wording:

the following ballot wording is fine by me:

This proposal is to create a dedicated Supernatural thread, NAFDA, no spoilers for anything unaired.

Item: Do you want Supernatural to have its own thread?

yes
no
no preference

I think that's pretty much it.

Back in bureau-blah-blah-blah I suggeted that we put some sort of sort blurb explaining voting and in particular the no pref option for new voters. What do we think of adding that?

Something like

1. There must be 42 voters for the vote to be valid

2. A vote must pass by a true majority (50% of yes or no votes, +1). No Preference votes do not count toward this

3. A No Preference vote counts toward the number of voters needed to make a vote valid and create the 6 month moratorium on further topic discussion.

I'll include something in the ballot about that, Sophia.

AmyLiz: the ballot looks great.

Thanks Jon- Feel free to make it make more sense!

Good idea, Sophia!

Ooh, that is a good one, Sophia.

Good idea, Sophia. I didn't know any of that until talk began in B'crazy.

I figured that, because I am one of the SPN watchers, posters and flailers, I would say what *I* want before we open up voting...

Item: Do you want Supernatural to have its own thread?

I would not have said so before this conversation began and that's not the stance I came with into Lightbulbs.

But, as the conversations have progressed over several days and I have thought a lot about it, I want a dedicated single-show Supernatural thread.

Boxed Set is where Supernatural belonged in the past, but things change. It doesn't fit there comfortably now. So I want a new thread at the end of this conversation and the voting. One where I can watch new eps, talk about the show, and propose dvd or rerun watch and posts without feeling like I am stepping on toes and crowding other conversations out.

A lot of feelings, very much including mine, have been hurt in the past several days and over the past several months even, but this isn't me trying to flounce away or just leave Boxed Set. It's just not the place for Supernatural any longer, to me.

The hurt feelings, we'll all get over them. We'll move on.

And I know that I feel terrible that AmyLiz feels bad for proposing this. Don't. It needed to be proposed. The masses of posts and feelings expressed show that it really was time for it to happen. And, Frankenbuddha, don't feel bad for posting something that started this round of conversations. Don't. Like I said, it was inevitable and I am not upset now that you brought it up.

So, as someone who cares a whole lot about how this vote ends? I want a new thread. I am anti-proliferation and everything, but I want this one.