We don't vote when we do other things in the name of the Buffistas, like send flowers or cake or whatever to the cast and crew of a canceled M.E. show, or books to First Book in honor of Marti's sprog.

And we're not voting about sending money to Allyson to send cookies and ponchos to the picket lines, which is already happening. We're voting (mainly) on changing the masthead logo, which is a change to the site, at least as big as adding or closing a thread.

That, to me, is the difference.

Point taken, Jess. My only reason for posting is to note that, to me, voting seems senseless when no one has expressed dissent.

OK, if the lack of dissent is what people are concerned about, I'll speak up where I'd decided to leave my voice to the vote.

I think putting together an official, corporate-type statement and putting it on the header is a bad precedent. An overwhelming statement of support by a large number of the citizenry is different from stating "Buffistas.org officially supports the strike". Donations to causes/gifts/special events have always been voluntary.

I don't believe overwhelming support should be construed to mean official, trademarked support. It's a philosophical point, not a judgement on the worthiness of the strike. I can see sometime in the future a question being raised, "Well, everyone who's said anything has said they really love Candidate X, so why shouldn't we put a logo on the home page saying we endorse X?"

I have a dumb question-

Are we taking about replacing the current header that says "buffistas.org" with a different graphic that says "buffistas.org supports the strike" or will we be putting something in the middle space or underneath?

I thought we were going to put a "Fans support the writers" image next to (or maybe at the top of the sidebar - whatever's easiest for Jon) our logo, not replace the one we have now.

Oh, and here's an idea - why not have the signpost image also be a link to Minearverse, so people who only come here for strike talk (if there are any) can click on the strike graphic and go directly to the thread where the talk is happening?

It can either be a box on the left or right side like Whedonesque:

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Or can go next to the header.

Thank you!

It's so not a stretch (hi, connie) to imagine that Buffistas mightn't support anything en masse that I'm not sure why the people who want there to be no or truncated voting either don't think so or don't care.

Sure, connie would probably get outvoted. But I want her to have a chance to participate in our procedure and have her vote. Similarly for everyone who might not have the steel to speak up in the face of all this support.

In the end I think that we are important, and we should respect that, and the vote is part of it.

And not to discount our own importance, there's nothing this board does that would be an actual emergency. I mean seriously. It's not like we're voting to close down Gitmo or whatever.

It's not like we're voting to close down Gitmo or whatever.

We're such slackers.