[tsc-devel] VOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: Changing the name of “Funky God Mode”

Quintus | Sun, 11 Oct 2015 06:54:13 UTC

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                A N N O U N C E M E N T   O F   V O T E


2nd vote                                           October 11th, 2015

This is a formal vote announcement as per § 5 of the Voting Rules
(VotR), which are available online[1]. A vote that is accepted by the
team results in a final decision on a topic and determines how to
proceed.

Allowed to vote is any team member, which as per § 1 VotR is everybody
who is publically listed as a member of the “Secretchronicles”
organisation on GitHub.

Proponent
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The vote was proposed by me, Quintus <…s@q…>.

Vote Subject
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There was a discussion spawned in the issue tracker (ticket #441[2])
about whether or not to rename the special mode that makes Alex
invincible from “Funky God Mode” to something different. The main
argument was that the term might be perceived as an unnecessary and
maybe even blasphemic use of the name of God for highly religious
Christians. There has been a good number of pros and cons being
exchanged on the tracker, which I advise everyone to carefully read
before making a decision.

As it appears to be impossible to find a compromise (one can’t really
change the name only partly) and there are people arguing for both
options, I determined a vote was necessary to clear the matter up.

To ease things, this vote not only decides about whether to rename
current God Mode, but also about what to rename it to exactly to prevent
nececcisity of another voting procedure. By voting for option 1 below,
you indicate you want to keep the current naming, voting for any other
option is a vote against the current naming and in favour of another
name (the one you vote for).

Vote Options
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Option 1: Funky God Mode (i.e. keep the current naming)
Option 2: Funky god mode (“God” not capitalised)
Option 3: God Mode
Option 4: Dog Mode
Option 5: Invincible Mode
Option 6: Omega Mode
Option 7: Underdog Mode

Voting Period
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The voting period starts on 2015-10-25 00:00 UTC, and it ends on
2015-11-01 23:59 UTC.

Procedure
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On 2015-10-25 I will post the public Call for Votes (CfV) that
officially opens the voting period. After that you may vote by either
emailing your chosen option to the mailinglist, posting it to the forum
into the topic containing this announcement, or posting it on the
tracker in the ticket where this announcement was published. Any vote
given before that CfV was posted is ignored. The timespan of two weeks
between this announcement and the CfV is intended to give you time to
decide and prepare, to allow you making last efforts in convincing
others from your opinion, and to decide whether you request a covert
vote (see below).

If no single option receives the most votes (but multiple ones win), a
second vote is held with the set of options reduced to those options
that received the most votes.

If option 1 wins, the current name of “Funky God Mode” will not be
changed now or in the future. Any other option means changing the name
to whatever got the most votes.

Covert vote
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Each team member has the right to request a covert vote. A covert vote
means that a technical procedure is employed that prevents everyone from
seeing how anyone else has voted. It is intended to prevent conflicts
within the team or between users and specific team members, and you
should only request this if you really think this is required. More
openness is better for the project.

If the request is made, it must be honoured. I will announce the
technical procedure in that case.

The request must be made before the Call for Votes has been posted, any
further requests for covert votes are ignored.

Quintus
TSC project lead.

[1]: https://github.com/Secretchronicles/documents/raw/master/votingrules/votingrules-2015-08-15.pdf
[2]: https://github.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/issues/441
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