We've started voting on issues and details for the new site, but we don't actually know how many people are eligible, active, and interested to vote on all this crap. The Senior Staff tab in the Guide to Newbies is a good start, but it's not up-to-date, and, in my mind at least, the voter pool is slightly different from the Active/MIA list in the Newbie Guide. This is my attempt to nail down the list of Active Voters for site issues, from which we'll be able to determine (super)majorities and quora and whatnot.
To be an Active Voter, a user must be an Administrator, Moderator, or Senior Staff, and either:
- Actively doing staff-type functions on the main wiki, or
- Actively participating in administrative and policy discussions here or in chat.
Wiki activity can be checked through a user's Wikidot profile page. Chat activity… that's not nearly as easy to track, so let me know if someone's I don't know about has been taking part in policy discussion during the overnight hours. I'm also including Staff who have voted in the membership split thread who otherwise would be listed as inactive (I think that only includes Paradox at the moment).
I'll break the list down by Admin/Mod/SS, so we also have counts for the various subsets for less-common votes (e.g. Admin+Mod only).
Active Voters
Administrators (11)
Gears, Crow, Bright, Clef, Waxx, Light, Mann, Quik, TroyL, Photo, Paradox
Moderators (6)
Dexanote, Pig_catapult, Sorts, Nusquam, Scantron, Moose
Senior Staff (10)
Imants, Burns, Meta, Echo, Kens, Spike, Rhett, Yoric, Eskobar, Mackenzie
These are staff who, after I looked at their recent wiki activity, don't appear to be currently active in site administration or policy-making.
Inactive Voters
Snorlison, Fat Ghost, Unimport, Gerald, Rights, Heiden
(Just to be clear, all the people on the inactive list can still vote on site policy. I just don't expect them to, and I'm placing them there for the sake of being able to make forward progress on, well, anything. If any of them come back and vote and participate, great! I'll change the numbers accordingly.)
Going by these numbers, then, we can finally get some voter population data we can use:
- Active Voter Pool: 27
- Majority/50% Quorom Threshold: 14
- Supermajority/2/3 Quorum Threshold: 18
(N.b. the Majority threshold will be different from the 50% Quorum threshold if the number of active voters is an even number. The Quorum will still be 50% of active voters, but Majority would be 50% of active voters Plus One. This is so that 50-50 votes can be dealt with as a tie vote. However they will be dealt with.)
If anyone has any questions or issues about either list, let me know.
