Subforum Ideas Topic: The Quorum Quorner

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SpoilerYou bring up an idea. Float it. Yeah.
For it to get voted on, it should have a number. You can give it a number when you float it, or someone else can give it a number if you just threw it out there not really seriously but they take it seriously.

For a vote on that idea to take place, it must get to a quorum of at least 8 people in bold saying they want a vote on idea number whatever. For example VOTE #28. This isn't saying you want a vote for it, just you want a vote on it to occur. You should help the quorum take place even if you don't want it because then if it does happen, you can make it known that people don't want it and it won't have to be a pressing issue.

Once quorum is reached, then for the next week (from the minute the 8th quorum vote is reached) anyone can type YES ON #28 or NO on #28. Or multiple choices if it's a multiple choice vote. BLUE on #28 at the end of that week, winner wins. You can decide if the election will be a borda vote or something else if you want. It's up to you.

Some exceptions to the above (rule change ^Petey):

• a. Voting will be open for week from post, unless an option has <85% of a vote (of at least 7 votes) after a day, in which case QUICK MOVEMENT status will be bestowed upon it.
  
  
• b. A smaller 3 vote quorum is all that's needed for actions involving moving things from whatever the active SUBFORUM IDEAS TOPIC is into a designated dumping grounds thread. After Quorum is established, as long as no one has any good reason to oppose the thing being moved after a week of consideration, it'll be done.

If an idea wins, it goes on the rules list or that action get performed by me. If not, then don't vote on it for at least two weeks.

Remember don't cramp up the process by metagaming or metavoting. Like we're all people here and this voting isn't like a pumpkin growing competition, where you want to see who grows the largest pumpkin. This is cooperative and we want to have the most fun possible on the web, to each by their need and from each by their ability blah blah


And that's how a bill becomes a law.

Past rule changes: change to the voting system ^Petey.
Change to Hawkspace Rules LOCKPICK.

Past actions:

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⬭It was decided that, in a thread for increasing post count by posting numbers, if over 300 posts were made by a poster, a challenge would have to be completed. 300 posts not made, so no challenge required
⬬ A new version of this thread would be made, and the old would be "BURIED, in a LANDFILL, where it belongs"
⬭ A user was asked to challenge themselves
⬬Someone asked for a quickly-finished thread to be locked, and then a commemorative plaque was made for it.

(to be re-leadered as needed)

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im in favor of locking it but not deleting the last post

this motion is 6abb84323-A, and it is superior

i'm in favor of 6abb84323 if people prefer it over 6abb84323-A though

The issue is now moot.

but wheat I FORGOT which is criminal because all I remember is that it was really good

I would vote in favour of 6abb84323; bigro made a short and entertaining thread and it should be preserved as a positive role model for bigros everywhere.

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Motion to have many of the identical loather banner threads deleted. I am calling this bill th31re.

I think if we went with that, we should make it any threads past 4 get merged.

(This proposal is th32re-a)

Because who doesn't post four threads every once and a while. Within 3 hours. *cough* reyweld *cough*.

However, I don't think that this is a good solution as of right now.

The thread count itself isn't the problem, I just don't want them to be identical with no reward for looking at all of them.

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I vote th32re-a, on the condition that any merged threads are renamed to something insulting.

I vote th32re-a, on the condition that any merged threads are renamed to something insulting.

Would you settle for the name being an amalgamation of the merged threads, with the word Croissant at the front?

I don't like any of this tbph

In what way are we harmed by clicking on some threads? Hawkspace is supposed to be a way to experiment with expression, and this reads as a way of discouraging that for very little gain. If you don't want to read a bunch of too-similar threads, just read the threads you do want to then mark the forum as read. This isn't such a busy site that being bumped off the front page is instant death for a thread; just chillax, folks.

e: man this is so counter to what my opinions used to be, and I used to take such pride in being unchanging. What a dope!

ee cummings: I used to hate (seriously, hate) The Most Forgotten Pokemon because I thought it was dumb and I resented it for incorrectly (to me) marking a forum as unread when it was a thread I didn't care about at all. But that's so silly! It takes less than a second to confirm and mark things correctly. I don't let it bother me anymore because I feel it's foolish to.

In what way were we harmed by Bigro's Post to post thread?

Actually I don't want to debate this. I retract my vote for bill th32re.

free loather 2016
all threads should be loather's threads

I wasn't, Reyweld. I think I was in the wrong then.

yeah let's n ot be insulting. only mildly dismissive at most

pfft, what are you, some kind of NICE PERSON

only assholes are allowed in hawkspace

W-what about me?

EDIT: This was my 1000th post.

Now that I feel bad about, but at least it was a great use of a reaction image

I dunno, I think we as a community made the wrong decision, but that's not a value judgement on us as a whole or any individual person in the group. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, but it doesn't make you bad. It seems like I'm coming across as a lot more judgemental than I intend to.

Nope. You have just the right amount of judgmental.

Also, I think we made the right decision, and only because Bigro wanted post count as opposed to expression. With Loather, its harder to tell.

Slorange, I do not think your points aren't salient, nor are the "wrong" in any sense. But I fear that you're conflating personal concern for Loather with what should be acceptable behavior. Loather, as can be seen in the 2 am thread, has been going through some sort of breakdown in the past 24 hours. And Loather, whenever you're reading this, I hope you're doing better. I also hope that if something is straight up overwhelming you, that you seek qualified help, because despite everyone's good intentions, I do not think you're going to be able to find the help you need in a GenChat thread on a forum full of people who aren't sure what the heck they're doing in life either. You're a cool person, especially on IRC where you're very fun to talk to, and nobody wants to see you hurting like that. Please don't take my dissenting opinion on this as an attack on you, its not.

But, my opinion is, if this is a forum where you can post nothing but the Eagletime banner in a dozen threads, then this isn't a shitposting forum this is a spam forum. And maybe its okay this time, because it was over so quickly and because we know that Loather meant no ill intent. But its a bad precedent to allow someone to spam, no matter how cool they are.

I don't think there's a need for any sort of punishment, but those threads do interfere with the functionality of the forum. It's actively harder to browse when there's a big chunk of identical threads clumped together.

So I say we keep this simple and go with Reyweld's th31re, just delete the threads.

More specifically, I would like to clarify this as "delete the banner threads that do not have any replies at the time of this motion". I don't know if clarifying it in this way needs a new label, if it does I will call it th31re-b.

I don't see a need to work out a larger policy right now, let's just clean up the excess threads promptly.