Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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
I am not sure whether or not we voted 50% +1 or for a true majority. This would exclude no preference votes either way.
Sophia, without checking 50% + 1 was the definition of "true majority". That "majority" was subject to a special ballot to see if we meant 50% + 1, or if we meant "most votes". 50% + 1 is the defintion that won.
Maybe you're confusing it with higher majority, which was voted down the first time?
I am not sure whether or not we voted 50% +1 or for a true majority.
50% +1 is a true majority, and that's what we voted for.
The two posts that explain it all are these:
Jon B. "Sunnydale Press" Mar 5, 2003 12:00:05 am PST
This was the vote for majority versus plurality for questions where there are more than two choices on the ballot. The outcome of that vote was what Jesse quoted here, but it doesn't really apply, because none of the questions had more than two options. No Preference is not an option, it's just a way of registering no opinion on the matter.
Nilly summarized the way No Preference is handled here:
Nilly "Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer" Aug 27, 2003 10:26:29 am PDT
Thanks! I could not remember whether we voted for a majority or a plurality! We really need a cheat sheet.
Also, I woke up at 2:30 am this morning and haven't been back to sleep so I may be a little slow!
Might I suggest "Volume" instead of "Season" as in "Boxed Set, Volume 1: Farscape, Smallville, due South" (or whatever order they should go in).
I just wanted to apologize if I made anyone uncomfortable earlier. I didn't mean to, I was...well I wasn't feeling my best because of stuff that happened yesterday and I was letting my feelings bleed over.
No worries, askye. I figure the changes are going to throw a few people for a few loops of whatever kind.
Heh.
I think my sad admission is that I think I'd have preferred to see consolidation that took us back to the WX-era threads only. (And, of course, the house keeping.)
I may well be a cranky old man. (IOW, I'd have whacked Music, Hobbits, and Movies.)
(And, you know, after my coffee, I'm sure I'll be fine with it. Blah blah blah, needs of the many and all.)
Well, my feeling was that everytime I asked a question in Lightbulbs I got shut down -- that the discussion was a place to let off steam on a ballot that was already decided.
I think in part that's a function of having the proposer have ultimate authority over the questions, fwiw. There seemed (to me) to be a fair amount of consensus over the fact that Farscape was at best an awkward fit with the other two. But that's not what the proposer chose to propose.
Hmm... I threadsucked Lightbulbs for people's opinion on Farscape, and didn't find one for Sumi. The "consensus vote" was 6-3½, with 3 "don't cares," so not a landslide.
Anyway, I think Kat is proof from attack on being inflexible on her proposal. She was really involved in the discussion and updated the proposal four times with different wording. You can tell she wasn't set on killing Farscape by the language in her original proposal:
5. Due South, Smallville and perhaps Farscape will be consolidated in some way.