Ballot, if needed, will go here.
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Friends,
We need two quickie Charter Amendments to correct something we forgot about when amending the ToE.
(1) The Amendment to Article 6 calls for the deletion after ten days of the Announcement Threads in the ToE that a new member has requested entry.
Currently Article 8 on thread deletions calls for obsolete announcements to be moved to the History Forum.
We need to amend Article 8 to be consistent with Article 6.
Cerin proposes the following wording be added to Article 8: Policy on Thread Deletions; ¶1 Routine Exceptions
Petitioner announcement threads in the Thinking of England forum are deleted permanently three days after their expiry, in accordance with Article 6 ¶4.
(2) Article 5, ¶1 about the Bike Racks says that Bike Rack threads can be deleted at the request of the posters. That provision is also not included in Article 8 and needs to be added.
Furthermore, dispute threads are given expiry dates and held in Deleted Thread Storage for awhile after the posters request deletion because we want to make sure they are available if there ends up being a Hearing or if the poster wants to appeal a Hearing. This is unlikely to be an issue very often with Bike Rack threads, but it might be, so I'd like to include for BR threads the expiry date ratified for Hearing threads, that is 10 days + one month. The text would read:
Bike Racks threads may be deleted at the request of the posters. They will remain in Deleted thread storage for 10 days plus one month from the date of the last post and then be deleted permanently.
________ THIS POST HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY EDITED AS WE TRY TO DECIDE WHAT ACTUALLY NEEDS TO BE DONE
I goofed when first reading Articles 8 and 6 and thought we would need a discussion about whether the threads should be deleted - but Article 6 already calls for deletion. See discussion in first few posts of this thread.
We're thinking it would be nice if we could update Article 8 without forming a committee, voting in committee, putting a ballot before the membership, discussing for ten day and then voting for ten days.
We should have caught this and put through a consistency amendment for Article 8 when we ratified the amendment to Article 6.
So, how much time do you think we should waste paying for these oversights? Would anyone object to us adding the necessary paragrap(s) to Article 8?
I'll leave this thread up for 14 days (as of Nov. 9) and if anyone objects we will go through the committee and ratification procedure. If no one objects I'll update Article 8.
Jn
ETA: a final apology .... when I first posted this I mistakenly referred to Article 8 as Article 12, and other posters followed by referring to it as Article 12. All of us are talking about Article 8: Policy on Thread Deletions