Forum:CT Archive/Procedural proposal

Good day, everyone. I offer a proposal regarding a procedural activity for Consensus Track and Trash Compactor vote. Simply put, it prevents a proposal or topical vote from being changed once voting opens without the consent of those who have already cased votes. In other words, ideas or changes to a proposal cannot be simply tacked on to a proposal once votes have already been cast by users. The exact language is as follows:

''Once a proposal is offered in Consensus Track and Trash Compactor forums, it must remain unchanged following the commencement of voting unless:
 * 1) All users who have cast votes prior to the desired change to be included are directly contacted and have expressed either their approval or rejection of said change by commenting under their vote, or the alteration to the vote is rendered invalid; or&hellip;
 * 2) Individual amendments are drafted to alter to the topical vote, but must pass separately within the same CT or TC page and adhere to rules of consensus.

Exceptions to this include slight tweaks to wording or punctuation that do not alter the intended approved meaning of the vote but are done for clarity when incorporating them onto policy pages.''

I submit this as a vote to support good-faith changes without taking for granted the users who cast votes prior to alterations in a proposal. I also hope this clarifies TC and CT procedure, so that we can keep things moving speedily by not belaboring petty discussions about whether or not something is acceptable. &mdash; Fiolli  {Alpheridies University ComNet} 21:59, May 19, 2010 (UTC)

Please keep this an up or down vote, and refrain from wiki-lawyering in the voting area.

Approve procedural proposal

 * 1) As nominator. &mdash;  Fiolli  {Alpheridies University ComNet} 21:59, May 19, 2010 (UTC)