Here: Jesse "Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer" Aug 27, 2003 10:17:30 am PDT
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
'Heart Of Gold'
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
Jesse - Aug 27, 2003 10:47:46 am PDT #4828 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DXMachina - Aug 27, 2003 11:09:57 am PDT #4829 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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
Sophia Brooks - Aug 27, 2003 11:37:11 am PDT #4830 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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!
Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2003 11:37:44 am PDT #4831 of 10005
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Might I suggest "Volume" instead of "Season" as in "Boxed Set, Volume 1: Farscape, Smallville, due South" (or whatever order they should go in).
askye - Aug 27, 2003 1:30:28 pm PDT #4832 of 10005
Thrive to spite them
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.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2003 4:06:29 pm PDT #4833 of 10005
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
No worries, askye. I figure the changes are going to throw a few people for a few loops of whatever kind.
P.M. Marc - Aug 27, 2003 5:50:59 pm PDT #4834 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.)
Noumenon - Aug 27, 2003 7:52:36 pm PDT #4835 of 10005
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
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.
Consuela - Aug 27, 2003 7:55:12 pm PDT #4836 of 10005
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Besides, it's not dead! Farscape is only sleeping.
t /natter
Michele T. - Aug 27, 2003 8:10:36 pm PDT #4837 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I am annoyed at the loss of the Spoilage Lite thread for Angel, since that's the only thing being cut that isn't either at the end of its useful life or being somehow replaced by some other thread.
And I feel very strongly that we shouldn't encourage the inevitable thread drift in the SV/dS/FS thread slug -- it'll happen, I'm sure, but let's not invite it.