Originally Posted by
SkiAdcock
There were 49 motions/votes while I served on TB. Only 1, the last one, had voting conclude before the sitewide announcement went up. As koko notes, it was an outlier. It is not the norm to have voting conclude before the sitewide announcement takes place. And while it probably won't happen again, TB is taking steps to amend the guidelines to ensure it doesn't & that a more formal heads up in forums before motions are made. So that will take care of it from a logistical point.
Cheers.
Just to clarify for the record: the Premium Fare Deals vote didn't conclude in seventeen hours but rather about six days. The seventeen hour time line counts from the time that the motion was formally seconded and voting was opened until it was announced by the TB VP that the motion received six positive votes, thereby guaranteeing that it would pass. Also for the record, the Premium Fare Deals forum wasn't created by the CD until everyone on TB had voted, so the MR mods had approximately six days notice that there would be a new sub forum on their turf.
There could have been a community wide announcement posted between the times that the sixth and ninth TB votes occurred, but it would have been pointless as the outcome of the vote was already determined and announced publicly. AFAIK there's no way at that point to stop/postpone conclusion of voting on the motion or to amend the motion based on comments from FT members, although I believe that a minor friendly amendment would be a possibility if the TB members who made and seconded the motion approve.