22 Jul 2003: Create uk.people.bdsm.creative
From: Mark Goodge <m.goodge@ukvoting.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:09:28 +0100
Subject: RESULT: Creation of group 'uk.people.bdsm.creative' FAILS as +12 requirement not met.
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.people.bdsm
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RESULT: Creation of group 'uk.people.bdsm.creative' FAILS as +12
requirement not met.
Summary: Creation of group 'uk.people.bdsm.creative' received 13
votes in favour and 2 against, with 1 abstention. This fails to
meet the requirement for a winning margin of 12 or greater.
Therefore, the proposal fails.
Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST 11 July 2003
Proponent : ^Thunder^ <Thunder@ukessex.org.uk>
Votetaker: Mark Goodge <m.goodge@ukvoting.org.uk>
Distribution:
uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.people.bdsm
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The full results follow below in the following order:
1) Information on the ballot
2) Results
3) Individual Vote Details
4) Votetakers Comments
5) Voting and Appeal Information
6) Rationale and Proposal (from the CFV)
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INFORMATION ON THE BALLOT
Voters were asked to show their preference on a single Yes/No
question: Create group 'uk.people.bdsm.creative'?
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RESULTS
There were 20 vote emails received:
16 Valid and counted votes
4 Invalid votes (all of which were corrected by the voter on
the 2nd submission and are included in the counted votes)
Of the 16 valid and counted votes received, the preferences were:
Yes: 13
No: 2
Abstain: 1
Under the Voting Procedures for the uk.* Hierarchy, a winning option
must have at least 12 YES votes more than NO votes. In this case, the
winning margin did not reach this number and the proposal therefore
fails.
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INDIVIDUAL VOTE DETAILS
Name Email Vote
Andy Davidson andy?nosignal@gro YES
arache philip@j@page?btinternet@moc NO
calluna{A^} heather@t?lineone@ten YES
Caruthers Carstairs-McKraken carstairsmckraken?yahoo@co@ku ABSTAIN
Dave J. requiem?freeuk@moc YES
humiliation humiliation?slavecamp@zzn@moc YES
Ian Jackson ijackson?chiark@greenend@gro@ku YES
Lt. Cmdr. Jim ltcmdrjim@hotmail.com YES
Paul Harper paul?harper@ten YES
Richard Kennaway arke?dircon@co@ku YES
robert robertg7?msn@moc YES
SandMan sandman?dizzy-queen@moc YES
Sswitcher sswitcher?yahoo@moc NO
Stephen Harris bdsm?spuddy@gro YES
^Thunder^ Thunder?ukessex@gro@ku YES
UrbaneSavage UrbaneSavage?yahoo@moc YES
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VOTETAKER'S COMMENTS
A pretty simple vote to administer, with no significant issues. More
people than usual seemed to have problems understanding the instructions
on both the CFV and the ballot paper, but other than that there were
no difficulties.
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VOTING AND APPEAL INFORMATION
This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UKVoting.
UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on behalf
of the uk.* hierarchy and other 3rd parties.
The rules under which votes for the uk.* hierarchy are taken are posted
regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL:
<ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/voting>
The UKVoting web pages can be found at <http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/>
There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to
uk.net.news.announce.
Allegations of irregularity should be sent to control@usenet.org.uk.
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(The information in this and the following section is a copy of that
provided in the CFV)
RATIONALE from the last RFD
uk.people.bdsm is a major source of discussion of BDSM topics in the UK
but stories and experiences are explicitly forbidden in its charter. A
number of people had requested that the charter be amended to allow
these but others felt another newsgroup should be formed for this
purpose.
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CHARTER
Contributions and discussion of stories, poetry and fantasies relating
to BDSM and s/m including stories and fictional experiences based on
actual facts with particular reference to the UK.
Anyone posting creative work must be either the original author of the
work or have explicit permission to post it (note that "it's from a web
page" is not explicit permission). URLs linking to internet sites of
original works are permitted.
General BDSM & d/s discussion in the UK is more appropriate in
uk.people.bdsm whose charter may be found at
http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.people.bdsm.html#uk.people.bdsm
No personals are allowed; these should be posted to
uk.people.bdsm.personals.
Advertising
Advertising is forbidden
Binaries & Formatting
Encoded binaries (e.g. pictures, compressed files, etc.) are
forbidden. Such material belongs on a web or FTP site to which
a pointer may be posted. Cryptographic signatures (e.g. PGP)
may be used where authentication is important and should be as
short as possible.
Posts must be readable as plain text. HTML, RTF and similarly
formatted messages are prohibited. To see how to make some
common newsreaders comply with this, read
<http://www.usenet.org.uk/ukpost.html>.
Warning
Anyone posting contrary to this charter may be reported to their
"postmaster" and/or Service Provider.
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