A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I promised to have this posted on Monday so here goes (language to be revised, rewritten, recycled or just trashed as discussion commences):
Proposal: To have a Book Club thread wherein a specific book (or books) would be discussed Buffista style on a specific time rotation (weekly, biweekly or monthly.) All the fine details, including method of book selection, number of books per rotation, length of rotation, and length of discussion period, would be hammered out exclusively in the proposed thread by the denizens thereof.
Purpose: The purpose of the thread is to accomodate an expressed desire by a number of Buffistas in Literary to have such a thread to allow focused and uninhibited discussion on a particular text as well as providing us with an opportunity and excuse to read and discuss books that may be outside our usual genre.
(BTW, this is a post-and-run so feel free to open up LB at any point tonight or tommorow morning.)
Is my current tagline too spammy/commercial? I'll delete it if there's a consensus in that direction.
If it were a direct link, there might be some argument against, I think. It's not like you're having pop-ups show up.
t pauses to consider the whole realm of horror if individuals had their own pop-ups.
You're a long-established member of the community, so I don't see it as a problem. It's clear that you're here for the company, not the commercial opportunities. If somebody joined solely for the purpose of spamming a URL, that would be different.
We just have to be careful we're consistent.
Have you added it to the links page, Susan?
There's also precedent. Evil Jimi has used his tag since the TT days to pimp the site he runs. No one has ever had a problem with that.
Deb's used her tag to pimp her books too. I think we're fine.
Yep, I was about to say what Dana said. The publication of a book is a defining moment in my life at the moment, so I talk about it; it never occurred to me that there's a problem with it. There's no link with pop-ups, or anything.
But if there is a problem, can someone let me know? I'll change it, no problem.
Um, no other problem, I mean. Too many problems in my problem post this morning.
Have you added it to the links page, Susan?
No, I hadn't thought of that.
And thanks, y'all. I figured I was on similar ground with Deb mentioning new releases, but I just wanted to make sure others viewed it in the same light.
