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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!
some sort of decision making cascade triggered by conditions that we pull out of the air.
The only way to make sensible business decision is to pluck numbers out of the air, call them assumptions, and calculate the net present value.
Of course, you have to use the right discount rate or else it's meaningless.
You may or may not be aware of the massive amounts of agita that have been caused by basically every new thread, and the desire on the part of some people to keep the total number of threads lower rather than higher.
I am aware of it, and I do get why we don't want new threads created willy-nilly. I don't understand why it is so important to people not to continue this particular thread.
edit: But I posted that in the Firefly thread to vent. If I wanted to contribute to the discussion in this thead I would have posted it here.
When is this coming to a vote?
Discussion started here: DXMachina "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Oct 25, 2007 8:23:56 am PDT
That means voting starts Monday, right?
The Firefly thread is not backchannel. What's currently being posted over there is part of this conversation.
I'm sorry. I hadn't intended it to be.
I understand that some folks are attached to the thread and don't want it shelved, but I'm questioning is the use of language like "dying" and "killing" to describe the closing of a thread. I assume it's either hyperbole or people are honestly trying to describe what they truly feel, but either way I find it redirects the debate in not very helpful ways.
I dunno. Maybe there isn't a debate here. Some people think a thread can be closed when there's no new media to discuss in it, hence they think we should close the thread. Others feel the threads are here primarily for the members who want to be there, regardless of whether or not there's new content to discuss. Neither side, I suspect, will be swayed by the other's arguments, in fact I'm guessing both sides are somewhat angered/annoyed by the other's response. So that's it, just frustration no debate.
Yes I think at this point there's not really anything else to be said on either side. I'm just waiting for the polls to open.
This is actually an issue I have no opinion on, so I'll probably be skipping he vote on this one.
maybe the vote should include a "doesn't matter either way" type of choice. I am curious how many don't care either way. Of course, if that gets the most votes, then what do we do?