Re: Meta post

On Mar 31, 11:46 pm, eili...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> I think that voting should be limited to people who have attended at
> least one Convergence, and I propose that votes be weighted according
> to Convergence attendance. There are many people who attend
> Convergence each and every year but do not post regularly on the
> newsgroup. Some people don't participate in the online community much,
> but they keep in touch with their friends by other means and go to
> Convergence to see them. Weighting votes based on total number of
> Convergences attended would give the same voting "say" to someone who
> went to C1, C2, and C4 as someone who went to C9, C10, and C12. People
> who have attended more than one Convergence are more likely to attend
> in the future. Weighting votes, I think, would be a more accurate
> reflection of the community's desires. As it stands now, the guy who
> found out about C13 from a ****tland newspaper and has no clue that C14
> is even happening can vote and have the same say as someone who has
> been a regular attendee for years. That doesn't seem fair.

I'm all in favor of this, since it would give me the equivalent of 11
votes (I paid cash to get into C1, but I have witnesses and was on
some old, old photo pages).  What percentage of last year's margin of
victory would that amount to?

 - Dr. Frank N. Furter
 - A Scientist