Natter 35: Scrappy can dream on, we're still making out with RIO!
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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
Topic!Cindy - Apr 27, 2005 11:48:04 am PDT #4612 of 10001
What is even happening?
Gus - Apr 27, 2005 11:49:34 am PDT #4613 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Natter 35: Scrappy Rules!
Seconding Robin's nomination.
billytea - Apr 27, 2005 12:35:03 pm PDT #4614 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Natter 35: 51 in Emperor penguin years.
Oh! I had a dream last night that my family was having tea on the lawn, when I noticed that there were king penguins that had somehow made it up to the roof of the ground floor, and were looking in the windows of the first floor. (I rushed up there, of course, to get a better view, accidentally letting in a group of fairy penguins in the process.) I recall being mildly disappointed that they weren't emperors.
Anyway, I vote for the penguin.
Gus - Apr 27, 2005 12:45:02 pm PDT #4615 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
What is this? The "Medium" version of democracy?
"Son of No Name!"
I saw it in a vision.
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2005 12:47:02 pm PDT #4616 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Democracy? Who promised you democracy?
DavidS - Apr 27, 2005 1:03:52 pm PDT #4617 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I like Penguin Years.
Gus, "bullshit consensus" as a handy phrase came about this way...
We used to just consense on minor administrativa. And if fifteen or so people all said "Yay" at roughly the same time it was so. Unfortunately, there are time zones, and people who didn't happen to be around during the consensus objected to this process. They grumpily called it a "bullshit consensus" which was one of the things which lead us down the road to voting on stuff.
So, technically "bullshit consensus" would be a consensus that doesn't represent everybody, but merely the folks who were around at the deciding. Since the deciding was not scheduled it wasn't really a true mandate.
However, during the long, arduous, constitutional congress of the Buffistas it just became the handy phrase for things decided by consensus. More or less acknowledging that (a) this isn't a true mandate but (b) it's such a minor thing that it's better to not vote on the tiny stuff.
Gus - Apr 27, 2005 1:16:28 pm PDT #4618 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Thanks for the straight answer, David. Understand, all, that I'm not challenging how Buffistas works. It does work. That puts it way ahead of a lot of things.
I'm curious, though. It seems like minor issues are not decided here by authoritarian means (by fiat) and I'm interested in what that process is.
I could easily just continue to observe.
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2005 1:18:08 pm PDT #4619 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thread naming is now moving into fiat status. Development issues are mostly fiat. It really does vary.
Stephanie - Apr 27, 2005 1:22:03 pm PDT #4620 of 10001
Trust my rage
I know this was discussed round about when I first showed up, last year, but how many "active" posters do we have? IIRC, there's about 1600 people registered, but I'm curious how many post regularly.
(If answering that requires anyone to do any research, plesae don't bother.)
Topic!Cindy - Apr 27, 2005 1:22:32 pm PDT #4621 of 10001
What is even happening?
Democracy? Who promised you democracy?
Yeah. We just guarantee the cracy part.