A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Allyson, is that in general (and I agree) or in response to my suggestion?
In general. My job entails navigating a sea of bureaucracy so that the smartest physicists in the whole world wide can unlock the secrets of the universe without getting buried in paperwork.
If a light goes out in someone's office, 5 people need to be notified, paperwork is created and signed, and it takes 5 business days to get the damned thing changed.
And this thread can be worse, sometimes. This is supposed to be massaging my brain while I quietly gnash my teeth because a high up secretary can't sort an excel sheet, making me instead gather 12 signatures from people who are constantly in meetings so that some dude can present a paper at a conference for which he's already been approved to attend.
This sort of goes with the Who We Are, Who Do We Want to Be? discussion. My ish, perhaps.
Seconded.
I also don't see a big with discussing both proposals at the same time. If Allyson and Betsy want to have the discussion and vote combined I would like that.
I think I have all my secondsies.
I am very against discussing both at the same time. Let's run Betsy's, and then Allyson.
I'll go on a ballot with Betsy any day of the week and twice on Sundays, with a hunk of bread to slurp up the gravy goodness.
I'd rather do Allyson's now. The grandfathering thing just does not seem to be getting proposed in a voteable form -- we've been waiting on it, IIRC, since March. If someone does the proposal, I'd say do it first; as it is, Allyson has the proposal and the seconds. let's do it. Grandfathering can wait a week.
So we're opening lightbulbs for Betsy, and then next week we'll do up the Timster?
But Betsy a) proposed first b) got seconds c) is searching the thread for the precise language now.
I say when she has the language, we go with that, and when that's done, it's Minearville, ahoy!
Lyra, I was waiting for a list of all decisions to which it would apply, and also for the previously queued votes to occur.
Here's the original proposal. [link]
Here's Cindy's Nilly. Cindy "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Mar 28, 2003 5:57:04 am EST
The proposal, therefore, is:
All decisions made between December 20, 2002 and March 20, 2003 [was within the last three months] are subject to a waiting period before being reopened. This waiting period shall be the standard Buffista post-vote waiting period, and shall begin from March 20, 2003 [was the passage of this proposal].
