What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Oh, yes.
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
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Oh, yes.
Natter 35: bottles of beer on the wall, 35 bottles of beer...
I vote for this, but "What Happens" is good, too.
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Has anyone ever studied how Natter actually gets named?
Other than the Brookings Institute? No.
Has anyone ever studied how Natter actually gets named?
Not that I know of, but academics would have a field day with us.
That wasn't an attack. It was an honest question. The answer might be "Bullshit Consensus" or "Frack it, I'm picking one, because it is urgent."
I think I'm asking what "Bullshit Consensus" means. The notion seems important.
Gus, first, apologies for being smart-alecky. No attack presumed.
I think bullshit consensus just kind of spontaneously happens in a "you know it when you see it" kind of way. I'm not sure you can quantify it because, if you have a poll, the consensus is formal and no longer bullshit.
I'm not sure you can quantify it because, if you have a poll, the consensus is formal and no longer bullshit.
Schrodinger's Bullshit!
What Fred said, but in some cases, I'm pretty sure at times the stompies have gone with whatever they interpreted as bullshit consensus, and not necessarily the "true" bullshit consensus.
I think that there was discussion about that at one point, and how if the new name caused an uproar because it wasn't the real choice, it could be changed easily enough.