Fred Bauder wrote:
8 votes is far too few, 18 or 24 might be more reasonable for what is likely to turn into a ban of several weeks at best.
I'm open to this. I merely chose 80% plus 8 votes because I found that on the QuickPolls page as it existed before. 8, 18, 24, the selection is more or less arbitrary but nonetheless important.
Without empirical testing, we won't really know what typical votes will be like. And even with empirical testing, different people will have different opinions on what the threshold "ought" to be.
I'm willing to listen to more opinions on what the threshold ought to be, but I also think that at some point, the proper solution will be to do an experiment and then have a wiki-wide vote on how we like it.
--Jimbo