Board Thread:Deletion and Overhaul/@comment-4347542-20130602181733/@comment-7404610-20130603035704

I support a minimum of eight days (a week plus a day of wiggle room for schedule slack slippage) for any formal voting situation. A lot of things can be discussed and a consensus quickly reached without the need for a formal vote, then action taken based on that consensus. Of course, that all depends on the amount of work that will be involved in implementing the decision:  Something that can be easily done, then just as easily undone if it turns out to be a mistake, doesn't need a formal vote at all. On the other hand, something that involves a lot of work ought to have more than the minimum time. But that extra time shouldn't necessarily be part of the voting....

The other thing that a formal deliberative process requires is a period of discussion prior to the actual vote. This allows clarification/modification of the alternatives being considered, as well as the introduction of compromises (such as the Booze Option as a middle ground between "we must have an article for every ___" and "we must NOT have ANY articles for ANY ___"). And that probably should last a minimum of a week as well, for exactly the same reasons 8fx says about voting itself. For those decisions that require a lot of work, two weeks of discussion followed by the 8 day period to collect the actual votes should be sufficient.