See, I've always thought of Press as the equivalent to the bulletin board at the local laundromat, while Beep Me is the serious thread about the stuff in a poster's personal life.
That's how I've always seen them, too.
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
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.
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Steph L. - Aug 30, 2004 5:53:26 am PDT #1991 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
ChiKat - Aug 30, 2004 5:56:33 am PDT #1992 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Agreeing with DX & Steph.
Maria - Aug 30, 2004 6:01:00 am PDT #1993 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
That's how I've always seen them, too.
Then my brain is wired wrong. I see "General Announcements" and it screams "official" to me, especially when contrasted with Beep Me's "Personal Announcements."
Part of the issue is that the blurb only appears on the first page. If one doesn't go all the way back, it's skipped.
Edit: Distinction noted.
DXMachina - Aug 30, 2004 6:13:48 am PDT #1994 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yeah, we decided against putting the blurb at the top of every page (as it was at TT), because if you do it for every page of every thread, it gets annoying. However, it would've been useful for those two threads.
Deena - Aug 30, 2004 7:05:53 am PDT #1995 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I've got it backwards too, then. Beep Me has always seemed much less official to me.
lisah - Aug 30, 2004 7:22:15 am PDT #1996 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Beep Me has always seemed much less official to me
Heh. I was trying to figure out why Beep Me has always seemed more official to me. It's because it's got "Apocalypse" in the title.
Cashmere - Aug 30, 2004 7:26:09 am PDT #1997 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
See, I've always thought of Press as the equivalent to the bulletin board at the local laundromat, while Beep Me is the serious thread about the stuff in a poster's personal life.
This distinction makes sense to me.
bon bon - Aug 30, 2004 7:28:25 am PDT #1998 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I disagree. Beep Me was proposed to help people who couldn't keep up with natter; press is a sort of alert-type thread. Even if in practice more serious posts go in Beep Me and Press is used sometimes just to sell used couches or stuff, one can certainly choose to ignore beep me (just like not everyone will read natter) but maybe should not ignore press. OTOH, I have no love for beep me's purpose, so YMMV.
§ ita § - Aug 30, 2004 7:33:29 am PDT #1999 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Press was so that people would be able to reach more than a one-topic audience with just the one post. To stop the thread-spamming. Beep me is about the personal.
I don't think insents (unless really urgent, I guess) or GMail or "what's happening outside my window?" fall into either category, honestly.
Wolfram - Aug 30, 2004 8:07:32 am PDT #2000 of 10001
Visilurking
I like the fact that this board operates as a family with a convenient place to post board-related alerts as well as personal missives, both of which I read regularly. I think more harm is being done with the second-guessing of appropriateness of posts rather than just lettings things go. In my opinion, nothing posted has risen to the level of abuse of either thread, and until that happens why chill the environment?