[VOTE] January Membership

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Who shall be elevated

Poll ended at 2009-02-08 12:56am

Schuyler Colfax
1
3%
Shroom Man 777
0
No votes
ray245
0
No votes
Bounty
2
7%
J
3
10%
Thanas
16
55%
None of the Above
4
14%
Abstain
3
10%
 
Total votes: 29
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[VOTE] January Membership

Post by CmdrWilkens »

Poll has been re-set, voting will run from 1/1 through 1/8



*Edit*
Please be aware that Ace Pace has contacted me and indicated that he cannot, for reasons related to real life concerns, accept a post as Senator if so elected. Since the vote has already opened I am not going to re-set things but please be aware that Ace has removed himself from consideration.
*Edit*

So the nomination process is now in full swing over in the HoC and we have a full slate of candidates. If you haven't swung over there to take alook at the nomination thread please do so.

Your contestants this month are:
I will again urge you that if you don't have a firm opinion on a specific member for their admission then vote for "Abstain." This vote will run for 7 days and the winner shall be dtermined by a plurality.


Administrative Note: Since there was no nomination thread in the Senate the "Chatter in Vote Threads" rule is hereby suspended for membership nomination votes. Don't go overboard and make me regret that.
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Reason: Edited, post has been reset with 7 additional days.
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Plunked down a vote
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As an aside while obviously nobody can really confirm or deny this I will not register a vote unless we have a tie at the end of voting per rules for the Chancellor. As such I declared myself "Inactive" for quorum call which means there are 51 "Active" Senators right now.
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Voted

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Voted. SPQSDN
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Voted for Thanas. He's not always that active, but he's a long time member with a very high signal to noise ratio.
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Abstain, by Jove!
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Voted.
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I want an "against all candidates" option :(

Seriously, if this is what we're going to get every month, we might as well do away with the new system and return to the old one. Colfax? Ray245? Shroom? Really?

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Voted.
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Vote made.

[Edit: Never mind, Thanas cleared it up by PM.]
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Voted. Of these, I think that the worthy consist of Bounty, J and Thanas (one of whom I selected at random) all of whose posts I regularly enjoy reading. I wouldn't care for the others to be admitted into the Senate.
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Simplicius wrote:Vote made.

[Edit: Never mind, Thanas cleared it up by PM.]
If your quesiton was the one I was thinking the answer is that:

- Mini-mods are NOT automatic Senate members
- Mods, SuperMods, and Admins ARE automatic Senate members.
fgalkin wrote:I want an "against all candidates" option :(

Seriously, if this is what we're going to get every month, we might as well do away with the new system and return to the old one. Colfax? Ray245? Shroom? Really?
Nothing is stopping you from voting for J, Bounty, Ace or Thanas. If you don't like any of the options then you can certainly abstain. In the future I will try and remember a "none" option but I just don't like it because "none" is really a vote that none of the above merit being senators. I know Bean has reasons why he would use that vote but aside from that cause (and I do get where he comes from on that) I think the "none" option is too easy to chose without any reflection.
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A hearty "aye" for Bounty.
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lol, 21 votes in, so less than 50% but there is a distinct trend happening here.
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How 'bout "None of the Above"?

I know more than one of those nominated are 'joke' nominations, something that we really don't need and shouldn't pay attention to.
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LadyTevar wrote:How 'bout "None of the Above"?

I know more than one of those nominated are 'joke' nominations, something that we really don't need and shouldn't pay attention to.
I would agree with this, as has been mentioned earlier. However something we should probably need a new thread for discussion.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong

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And I gave my support for Thanas.
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I know there isn't supposed to be any "chatter" in nomination threads, but given the near-dozen absentions, would someone kindly at least PM me a reason why Bounty wouldn't make a worthy senator?

I'll go a step further and note that, were nominations still made here, I would've been only too happy to cite posts and threads in which said [apparently not-yet-member-to-be] shined per SD.net BBS criteria.
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Voted. And get every single one of that joke nominations out of here. As far as I am concerned, if they send us shit nominations we should stop using HOC for choices.
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