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
Considering the last 50 or so posts, I think it's OK if I post this Natter here: in a book we had to read for class ("We Have Never Been Modern", by Bruno Latour), he uses a lot the word "proliferation" (of hybrids of nature and society). My first reaction was "hey, a long word that I know and understand thanks to b.org!". Later, I kept reading it with the word "thread" before it, had an opinion regarding it, and waited for ita to pop up in the text and krav those hybrids to a proper explanation as to why they deserve staying.
When I finally managed to read seriously again, a few sentences later in the text there was the wearing-red-leather and having-velvet-voice learned-from-"Firefly" word, "imbue", and it started all over again.
Silly brain with English studied from the most various sources.
Silly brain with English studied from the most various sources.
Well, we are all about the variety here at b.org.
You think our kerfuffles are bad?
Imagine if we handed out these.
Good GOD. The Wounded Donkey award?
Dude. That makes junior high look warm and fuzzy.
Though I admit I'm amused by the Russian Novel Award for Long Posts.
Wow. Way to make internet people even crazier.
AND the "awards" show up next to the person's posts! [link]
OMG. That is so crazy and awful.
Ugh. Who were the ad geniuses that...you know. The Fray has a similar procedure of editorial recognition that is more than a little creepy and wrong-- and their forum content is not that great for such a big site.
