Post by Denethor on Jun 14, 2009 19:09:06 GMT -5
This is just a straw poll about the membership issue (translation: Den wants to try the poll feature ).
Answers marked ($$?) are ideas that I thought might cost us money if implemented. There are logistics with that, but if the membership wants something enough to, say, pony up some dough? There are probably ways for a group of reasonably close Internet friends to arrange that, maybe? But if not, that's ok too, we can do our best with the free options. (Note though that with board features we are using pretty much all of these at present). You will note also that some options encourage an explanatory post.
Please pick your fave option, and if you like another idea as well, post about it. The poll utility allows a "choose several" setup but no way to rank 'em, and it would be nice to have a view of some single option people like best, so I used the single vote option. Top choices can then come under discussion - or maybe even happen! ;D
Another thing about this poll utility: The allowable number of characters for the "answer fields" is depressingly short. But, it is what it is. So if you need to elaborate, of course, the "post" field allows a lot more characters.
Apathy also gets a vote; probably the default, if everyone picks that, is some combination of Do Nothing and Advertise by Invite, which is more or less what we're doing now.
Since there are only fourteen of us at present, I'm not expecting an earth shattering turnout, but then again, the Continental Congress didn't get that either. No shame in starting small.
Oh, and not wishing to influence the results, I haven't voted yet - though the software says I have nominally set it up so you won't see what others want until you yourself cast a vote. Please don't cheat!
Answers marked ($$?) are ideas that I thought might cost us money if implemented. There are logistics with that, but if the membership wants something enough to, say, pony up some dough? There are probably ways for a group of reasonably close Internet friends to arrange that, maybe? But if not, that's ok too, we can do our best with the free options. (Note though that with board features we are using pretty much all of these at present). You will note also that some options encourage an explanatory post.
Please pick your fave option, and if you like another idea as well, post about it. The poll utility allows a "choose several" setup but no way to rank 'em, and it would be nice to have a view of some single option people like best, so I used the single vote option. Top choices can then come under discussion - or maybe even happen! ;D
Another thing about this poll utility: The allowable number of characters for the "answer fields" is depressingly short. But, it is what it is. So if you need to elaborate, of course, the "post" field allows a lot more characters.
Apathy also gets a vote; probably the default, if everyone picks that, is some combination of Do Nothing and Advertise by Invite, which is more or less what we're doing now.
Since there are only fourteen of us at present, I'm not expecting an earth shattering turnout, but then again, the Continental Congress didn't get that either. No shame in starting small.
Oh, and not wishing to influence the results, I haven't voted yet - though the software says I have nominally set it up so you won't see what others want until you yourself cast a vote. Please don't cheat!