Balance Forum Rules [Updated 3/7/12]

(10-19-2011 01:57 PM)Blue_Elite Wrote:  The amount of time they have becomes finite once the first vote has been cast. After that point, if the other members of the council get distracted or otherwise are prevented from voting before that time is up, the change (or no change) goes through with the lack of input from the other council members

Finite but quite long. 5 days before votes can be cast and 5 days between the last vote and a thread closing is a minimum of 10 days for those other two members to have their opinions heard. Probably closer to 19 or 20, since I don't really expect the current council to vote for anything at 5 days on the dot (it took 13 days for Metal Babble's first vote to come in).

I'd be fine with 2 councilmen needing to have had voted for a thread to close, which just about guarantees the thread stays open long enough for everyone to be heard, but at the same time allows for a single member to be lazy/not really care, but three seems like too much of a bottle neck. I don't want to have to keep coming back to a thread every 5 days going "masa, you need to vote" and "Squirm, this one requires your vote to end".