and I promptly went mad with power.
I have to say I heartily approve of this display of madness and power.
Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --
Jayne ,'Serenity'
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
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."
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.
Jon B. - Apr 17, 2005 6:29:47 pm PDT #4494 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
thread header or slug?
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2005 6:37:04 pm PDT #4495 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Header is more consistent.
Laura - Apr 19, 2005 5:25:00 am PDT #4496 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
The discussion in Lightbulbs started on the 13th, and apparently has concluded. Should the thread be closed?