Quote:It just occurred to me that it was an illogical number to make any decision.
It's a question of logistics more than anything. We don't really sit in an office atop an ivory tower; strange as it may seem, we're placed across several time zones. Fewer than six votes would be far less fair than the current count, but enable quicker action. More would slow down the operational process - unnecessarily, as CD pointed out.
However, like everything else this system is under constant review; should it become necessary, it can and will be revised.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'