Petition to Ban Certain Annoying Disruptive people

[Neferti]

Hi Aussie and Monk

Hope we are following the rules correctly!

Monk may not be much use in confirming it if we arent as he would be pissed by now!

Apparently, the Magic Number that I mentioned goes like this:

Petitions

A petition can be used to trigger an election for the position of exalted leader or to trigger a referendum. A petition will be deemed successful if the number of signatories meets or exceeds the magic number. The magic number is calculated as follows: take the number of valid votes from the last election, divide by two, round up if necessary (by adding 0.5), then subtract the number of people who submitted a valid vote in that election who are currently unable to sign due to the actions of the admin (eg if they are banned or suspended). The signature of a banned member is not counted if the magic number has already been reduced on their account. All petitions remain active until they succeed or the current exalted leader is replaced with someone else. Once a referendum or election is triggered by a petition, it cannot be 'untriggered'.

You recorded the 2017 Votes, Red .... can you figure this out, please?

[Redneck]

Hi Aussie and Monk

Hope we are following the rules correctly!

Monk may not be much use in confirming it if we arent as he would be pissed by now!

Apparently, the Magic Number that I mentioned goes like this:

Petitions

A petition can be used to trigger an election for the position of exalted leader or to trigger a referendum. A petition will be deemed successful if the number of signatories meets or exceeds the magic number. The magic number is calculated as follows: take the number of valid votes from the last election, divide by two, round up if necessary (by adding 0.5), then subtract the number of people who submitted a valid vote in that election who are currently unable to sign due to the actions of the admin (eg if they are banned or suspended). The signature of a banned member is not counted if the magic number has already been reduced on their account. All petitions remain active until they succeed or the current exalted leader is replaced with someone else. Once a referendum or election is triggered by a petition, it cannot be 'untriggered'.

You recorded the 2017 Votes, Red .... can you figure this out, please?

I have no idea what that magic number crap is all about

Silliest thing I ever heard of!

Fortunately the election was pretty straight forward % wise so I gather the magic number didnt really come into it.

I am sure farquit over yonder will correct us all!

[skippy]

The magic number has been used effectivly in the past. We got rid of the worst tyrant that ever shared our fair shores.
Well, after fd removed him kicking and screaming from the admin panel that is.
So it is usefull when mistakes like the tyrant occur.
For those MEMBERS interested, the election results from last year are in Archives, it doesn’t take an Einstein to work out the magic numbers from that. I’m not posting it here so OTHERS can try and manipulate the truth.
That said, the magic number is irrelivent, we are all happy little vegemites here.

[Redneck]

The magic number has been used effectivly in the past. We got rid of the worst tyrant that ever shared our fair shores.
Well, after fd removed him kicking and screaming from the admin panel that is.
So it is usefull when mistakes like the tyrant occur.
For those MEMBERS interested, the election results from last year are in Archives, it doesn’t take an Einstein to work out the magic numbers from that. I’m not posting it here so OTHERS can try and manipulate the truth.
That said, the magic number is irrelivent, we are all happy little vegemites here.

Yes fortunately we don't have those sorts here anymore!

Hi Aussie!