OK, great! Thanks, Nilly.

As an aside, the psychology of the no preference vote is fascinating to me. For example, we know that people sometimes feel obligated to vote, even if they don't have a strong opinion on the issue at hand. Some of these people would probably vote No Preference if it's an option. If we remove that option, will they not vote, or will they instead pick Yes or No out of obligation? And if they do vote, which way are they likely to go? My intuition tells me they'd be more likely to vote "No", since that ruffles the least amount of feathers.

Note: I have no strong opinions about closing the Firefly thread. I'm bringing this up purely as an academic exercise. And this thread is about to close anyway.

so a newbie question. What if a quarum isnt reached? Does that mean Firefly gets a new thread for the six months?

Yes, the ballot initiative fails and we stay with the status quo.

The Press announcement is up:

Voting Has Begun!

And with that, I close this thread.

Allyson said in B'cracy:

I'd like to propose Buffistas support of fans4writers, but I'm unsure how that would work.

Information is linked, and I think it sort of means we'd put the strike icon on our header, and inform them if we make donations that it's coming from Buffistas, or if we do our own thing that we let them know so they can add it to their list.

I think the point is to have a one stop place for fandoms to mobilize so that if one fandom is going to Burbank with coffee and to help picket on Wednesday, maybe the next fandom will plan to go on Thursday, so that there's not a clusterfuck and also to keep a steady stream of support for the strikerinos.

How do we feel about this as a community? The main con for me is that I really don't know these folks, and I'm always a bit cynical about fan campaigns and how they can implode.

The main pro for me is that there seems to be a rising concerted effort amongst the audience (fans) to help educate the public about the issues, and I think it'd be neat for us to be a part of that.

Thoughts? Clarifications? I know I'm still a bit muddy with the writing.

Discuss.

But if it comes up next time there's something that we obviously support as a board but doesn't include you and you don't get to use official process to object...it'd feel like a waste of cheesebutt to me.

Because of this, I'm glad we're voting. And it's fine by me - I'll vote yes. We've been writerly fangurls around these parts since way back.

I expect this to be the most redundant discussion ever (most heat generated will be meta--should we have talked about it), but there you go.

I am the bitch of process.

I support the idea of supporting the strike. As a group, I think we're fans of writers. I think a link or a page explaining the facts behind the strike are are a good idea. Especially for people who have heard of the strike, are wondering why their favorite shows are on reruns or not running and don't know why, exactly.

I would abide by a bullshit concensus and wouldn't mind not voting. But if a majority prefers an official vote, I think it should be an expedited process.

I support this. And the process, even if the process this time *feels* like it'll be all of us going, "Yep, we support the writers. Do it."

I think a link or a page explaining the facts behind the strike are are a good idea.

I think this is key, in addition to the logo.

Work just tried to eat me, I'm going to be a little gray in discussion for a bit. I'm so sorry.