Forum:CT Archive/Proposed amendment to the consensus policy

As our policies shift over time, there eventually comes a time when old consensus decisions do not fit with modern policies, and those decisions ought to be overturned. The problem that arises in such cases is this clause in the second paragraph of Consensus: "(as determined by a renewed discussion of the issue with participation equal to or greater than the original discussion)". As evidenced by comments in a few places, most recently the currently-ongoing Trash compactor/Star Wars streets in Las Vegas (second nomination), this wording effectively renders some years-old decision impossible to overturn because those decisions were made at a time when site activity was much higher than it is today, and now it is effectively impossible to get the required number of votes to overturn these old decisions.

I therefore propose the following alteration to the parenthetical quoted above: "(as determined by a renewed discussion of the issue with a new consensus and, if the original consensus is less than __________ old, participation equal to or greater than the original discussion)" (new text in bold). The fill-in-the-blank will be an arbitrary amount of time to be voted on below; in the event zero is chosen, the text "and, if the original consensus is less than __________ old, participation equal to or greater than the original discussion" will be removed from the proposal.

As a procedural note, this phrase to be amended here was adopted at Forum:CT Archive/Codifying common sense with ten votes. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Jedi Council Chambers 03:24, January 7, 2015 (UTC)

Issue 1
Vote to reduce the restrictions as laid out above.

Support reducing the restriction

 * 1) As proposer. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Jedi Council Chambers 03:24, January 7, 2015 (UTC)

Issue 2
Vote on the length of time that equal or greater participation will be. Note the special case above for zero. This vote is dependent on Issue 1 passing. As there is no status quo or policy to revert to in case of no consensus, this will be a simple plurality vote.

Discussion
I will hold my vote on Issue 2 until I hear from others. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Jedi Council Chambers 03:24, January 7, 2015 (UTC)