Re: [tsc-devel] CALL FOR VOTES: Changing the name of “Funky God Mode”

Luiji Maryo | Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:14:15 UTC

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                            I vote Option 1.

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(Second send, I keep forgetting to send from the subscribed address...
I wonder if there's a way to associate senders with receivers..?
I'll have to look into that. ;) )

On 10/25/2015 03:40 PM, Quintus wrote:
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> C A L L   F O R   V O T E S
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> 
> 2nd vote                                          October 25th,
> 2015
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> this is a formal Call for Votes (CfV) as per § 9 VotR. It
> officially opens the voting period for the vote described below,
> that is, you are now free to exercise your right to vote. A vote
> that is accepted by the team results in a final decision on a topic
> and determines how to proceed, so please take care before you
> participate.
> 
> 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. These are the following
> eight people:
> 
> - brianvanderburg2, aka simpletoon - DarkAceZ - datahead8888 -
> Luiji - Quintus - sauer2 - sydneyjd - xet7
> 
> Proponent °°°°°°°°°
> 
> The vote was proposed by me, Quintus <…s@q…>.
> 
> Vote Subject °°°°°°°°°°°°
> 
> 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 °°°°°°°°°°°°
> 
> 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 °°°°°°°°°°°°°
> 
> The voting period has started now. It ends on 2015-11-01 23:59
> UTC.
> 
> Procedure °°°°°°°°°
> 
> As nobody requested a covert vote, this vote will be held as an
> open vote. Please vote by sending an email indicating the option
> you voted for to the mailinglist, make an according post to the
> forum topic corresponding to this message, or post on the tracker
> in the ticket where the vote announcement was published as well.
> Everybody has only one vote. If you have a GPG keypair, please use
> it to sign the message (this is optional, but recommended).
> 
> 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.
> 
> Quintus TSC project lead.
> 
> 
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