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I agree to the proposed Charter Amendment
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51% [ 40 ]
No
  
49% [ 38 ]
Total votes: 78
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Holbytla
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Posted: Fri 16 Dec , 2005 9:47 pm
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The current text concerning the Bike Racks reads as follows:

Article 5: Dispute Resolution in the Outside Forum
¶1: The Bike Racks Forum


The Bike Racks Forum is a read and write forum available to all members. It is used for:
• resolving disputes between individual members when these disputes do not involve a violation of board rules;
• off-topic discussions that are derailing a thread but do not warrant a thread of their own;
• restricting posters who have provided invalid email addresses.

Members may start a thread in that forum to resolve a personal dispute.


It is proposed that we add here the following sentence.

This forum is intended solely for earnest attempts to resolve bona fide disputes, and threads that are not started for that purpose will be moved.

And that the text concerning second use of the Bike Racks (derailed threads) be changed to:

• splitting off quarrelsome or disruptive posts that are derailing a thread;

And that the text concerning the third use of the Bike Racks (invalid email addresses) be eliminated because it is obsolete under our current group permission system.

If this amendment is not passed, the current wording of ¶1 will remain unchanged, and it will be up to the discretion of the Rangers whether or not a particular thread disturbs the coherence of the forum and to move it accordingly using their routine powers under Article 3, ¶4. A poster whose thread has been moved may still contest this decision as provided in Article 3, ¶7 but all other means of protest remain a violation of the by-laws.

When the poll is put up, it will ask you to ratify the amendment by agreeing to the changes proposed. If you do not want those changes to Article 5, ¶1, then you should vote that you do not agree.

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Thanks Holby. :D

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Voted. :)

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Posted: Sat 17 Dec , 2005 4:40 pm
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Voted, too!

:hug: for Tinsel - just because! :)

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Hm...I've never voted in a poll before. How does one?

Er...nevermind. The poll window came up after I submitted the post. :oops:


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Looks like the membership's opinion on this one is, er, split. :Q

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Posted: Sat 17 Dec , 2005 9:50 pm
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Very close one, so far. I voted a while ago.


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Voted.

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Congratulations on your first vote, grumpydwarfmom! :D

truehobbit, thank you, and a :hug: back to you. :)

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Abstained. I never liked the whole bike racks idea, with or without the amendment.


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What was the quorum on this puppy anyway?

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I voted no. With all due respect to the people that worked so hard on this, the dispute that gave rise to this amendment was, at heart, a people problem and not a Charter problem.

That said, I don't think the effort that went into putting this amendment together was for naught. When the vote closes we will all walk away having learned something about what the board wants/cares about, and that's a very worthwhile thing.

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Posted: Mon 19 Dec , 2005 10:12 pm
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:yes: to what Rio said.

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How long does this vote go on?


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okay -- did my civic duty

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yovargas wrote:
How long does this vote go on?
It began on Dec 19th. It will end on Dec 29th.

I still wonder what the quorum was.

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Actually it began on the 16th and will end on the 25th.

I don't know what the quorum is but I'm pretty sure we've passed it. Last time the quorum was 33.

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