How should we handle meta questions that ask for a yes/no answer that potentially affect the whole tex.se community and set a threshold on the number of positive (or negative) votes for a clear "yes" (or a clear "no") within a particular time frame? An example of such a question could strive to change some modalities of the moderator elections or change some parts of the code of conduct. Clearly, such changes might affect the way tex.se works in the long run, so they be better be well-thought, unhasted, and enjoy a possibly vast consensus. To ensure the consensus and protect the community, it is better that the community decides on this matter rather than the individual who posts a particular meta question.

Should we try to interpret the aforementioned votes in some way at all? If the question is edited during voting, should we declare the votes as non-binding or even nullify them? If we interpret the votes, which values would make sense? After all, some values are likely to be meaningless. For example, 30000 votes is likely to be unreachable, though we have 138855 tex.se users as of 22:54 UTC on 2019-04-01, and 30 votes would represent only a infinitesimally tiny portion of the tex.se population.

Opinion answers are welcome on what the procedure should be.

(Just to start with, concerning the threshold, one could have a formula such as a*(all number of tex.se users) + b*(number of active tex.se users) + c*(number of active meta.tex users) for the threshold, where a>b>c are certain constants strictly between 0 and 1 that are to be found out. The definition of the term "active" has yet to be clarified, too; opinions on both are welcome. As for the time frame, this should probably correlate with the vote count: the longer period of time we grant, the more votes we should ask for; one could think of a surplus of at least 10 votes per day on average, for instance. In any case, the above suggestion is a parenthetical one; I intentionally do not make it precise here to enable some discusion.)

Or should we better ignore such thresholds (whoever the author may be) or the whole questions altogether and consider the contents of the questions only as starting points for discussions?