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Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer  

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


sumi - Aug 27, 2003 8:04:43 am PDT #4747 of 10005
Art Crawl!!!

How about something about Mounties, Immortals, Men of Steel and Jocks in Spaaace?


DXMachina - Aug 27, 2003 8:05:53 am PDT #4748 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Because I'm all about the Smallville spoiler ho'ing and in that thread whitefonting even major spoilers (which for Smallville is so an oxymoron, but that is another conversation entirely) is OK.

I believe we'd decided to go with a non-whitefonting policy, but I could be recalling incorrectly.

Farscape had white-fonted spoilers, too, although the spoilers were more discussion of episodes that aired overseas prior to airing in the US as opposed to posting upcoming plot twist rumors. Due South has no spoilers. What's the policy for SG-1?


Sophia Brooks - Aug 27, 2003 8:06:59 am PDT #4749 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Megan-- I think most votes have gotten between 80 - 123. I think 123 may be the highest, except maybe for the "vote to vote"


Jesse - Aug 27, 2003 8:07:45 am PDT #4750 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I have a silly question, and you'll have to forgive me since I don't read this thread all the time, and I don't know all the ins and outs of voting but I'll bravely ask if 123 votes is considered representative of the board or quorum?

Yes. We decided (via voting) that 42 voters would make a vote valid. And I feel like I've heard recently that there were 180 posters in the past two months or something, just for comparison.


Lyra Jane - Aug 27, 2003 8:08:21 am PDT #4751 of 10005
Up with the sun

I'll bravely ask if 123 votes is considered representative of the board or quorum?

When we were setting up voting, we had a vote (ha!) and decided 42 was the minimum number of votes for a valid election. Fewer than that, and the vote would not be considered representative.

On a practical level, it's probably about 2/3 of our regular users -- I think ita said 180 people had logged in during August.

Edit: X-post.


DXMachina - Aug 27, 2003 8:09:05 am PDT #4752 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I'll bravely ask if 123 votes is considered representative of the board or quorum?

The minimum number of votes that are required for the vote to be official is 42. ita mentioned upthread a bit that we had about 200 unique posters post so far this month.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 27, 2003 8:10:01 am PDT #4753 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

OK-- I think I answered a question that Megan did not ask.


§ ita § - Aug 27, 2003 8:11:38 am PDT #4754 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've heard recently that there were 180 posters in the past two months or something

180 was the count for the first two weeks. 206, IIRC, was the count up until Monday.


Megan E. - Aug 27, 2003 8:13:16 am PDT #4755 of 10005

So 42 really is the meaning of life.

thanks everyone.


Gandalfe - Aug 27, 2003 8:13:53 am PDT #4756 of 10005
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

DueSmallScape

I'd prefer FarSouthVille.

But I don't care, for reasons stated above.