Wow, everybody had an interesting time yesterday.
Just to add a query on this though, as much for resolving future issues as anything else.
Do we round up or round down, and who makes that decision?
Sorry, I had to say it because it did bother me. I am with both Faramond and Jny (and everybody else) on this as all opinions are valid here, but do we round up or down?
In this instatance, there is a bit of a faint acumpli (sorry bad spelling), as the isue really does not change that much, but it is possible in the future that a vote may.
Can we therefore have a discussion on weather, in principle, that we round up or down when we reach this situation again.
Personally I don't feel happy if it is in the hands of an individual who tots up the scores, it should be accross the board.
To use this example, if Veronwe who wants the board open counts, we round down to shorten the period. If it was me counting we would round up to lengthen. Not a massive issue as I said on the results we have, but what if it had been 0.005% either way on the board never opening? There would be hell to pay if the counters were the same and depending on the decision there would be a mas exodus from here.
So, can we discuss this? I really don't want to send this thread into a spin, and fights, and I really don't want to insult anybody or get anybody angry, butv I think it's important. If we need to start a new thread, let me know and I will, or if people think it should be something dicussed in the convention let me know.
Isn't democracy great.
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And on a personal note, I once had a job smashing up pentium processors when they had their dot point matrix error (it was 0.000001 apparently). I had to smash, with a hammer and chisel approximatley £3,000,000 (approximatly $15,000,000 or a small jet to our American readers) worth of the damn things a day for a couple of months.
I hate rounding, it leads to sore wrists and splinters of silica imbedded in your shoe...and dodgy body searches by overzealous security guards