I don't remember any proposals about that. I don't even remember a consensus.
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
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.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
DXMachina - Apr 16, 2005 12:35:40 pm PDT #4484 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
§ ita § - Apr 16, 2005 12:38:21 pm PDT #4485 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That is because I'm mad with power, and can't be stopped.
Wait until my next trick...
Liese S. - Apr 16, 2005 1:53:07 pm PDT #4486 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee. Aww, that's great. I love that. Yay, Buffistas, with the spicy brains!
Err, I mean, stop her, someone! Mad, mad, I tell you!
DavidS - Apr 16, 2005 2:22:48 pm PDT #4487 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and I promptly went mad with power.
I have to say I heartily approve of this display of madness and power.
Gus - Apr 16, 2005 2:34:03 pm PDT #4488 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Bad follow up, but still... I got stompied by ita in Apocolpyse in way that feels pretty arbitrary, like the board is losing its sense of humor.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 16, 2005 2:36:35 pm PDT #4489 of 10001
What is even happening?
Gus, in Apocalypse and Press, the Stompies always stomp.
Jesse - Apr 16, 2005 2:49:49 pm PDT #4490 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, anything that is not an announcement gets deleted. As described in the thread header.
Noumenon - Apr 17, 2005 5:12:58 pm PDT #4491 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Searching on "post deleted by," 77 of 1990 posts in Apocalypse have been squashed. 104 of 1743 in Press.
That's an interesting lesson about thread drift. Even if you prosecute off-topic posts every single time, and even when you can 100% reliably tell whether a post is acceptable or not, you still get four to six percent "noise." That must be the lower limit.
meara - Apr 17, 2005 6:09:00 pm PDT #4492 of 10001
Well, yeah, Nou--I think most of it is just "oh, crap, thought I was in another thread" rather than "oh, didn't realize this shouldn't go here".
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2005 6:11:19 pm PDT #4493 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are some people who didn't realise (like Gus, I'm guessing) that they were no natter zones. But mostly -- the urge to react right where you saw the news is strong.
I also want to change the code to display the thread header on each page, but we do need to shorten them before that's practical.