Natter 35: Now Sockpuppet Free!
Natter 35: Still not married and that's ok.
Natter 35: You must be this high to Nat.
Also, I like "What happens..."
She just... she just did the math.
Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
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
Eddie - Apr 27, 2005 6:16:08 pm PDT #4647 of 10001
Your tag here.
DavidS - Apr 27, 2005 6:45:38 pm PDT #4648 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and I'm interested in what that process is.
For thread naming, the process has tended to be: the wittiest thing wins by popular acclaim.
Now it's a bit more: the wittiest thing proposed that a stompy likes wins.
In brief, it's sort of like the court of King Charles II (aka, Restoration Chuck).
aurelia - Apr 27, 2005 6:51:48 pm PDT #4649 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
nevermind
Lyra Jane - Apr 28, 2005 4:40:03 am PDT #4650 of 10001
Up with the sun
There are a number of obviously misspelled user names on the list, as well as examples of multiple variations of the same name being registered again and again.
It sounds like some people register variations on their name so that no one else can login with anything too close (e.g., if I registered lyrajane and Lira Jayne). Is that what you're describing? Or is it more like people who are indecisive and register Lira Jayne, then decide that spelling would be annoying and register something else? Or a little of both?
Sorry for the 20 questions ... this stuff just faascinates me.
I changed the code to display thread headers on every page.
Verra nice!
Kate P. - Apr 28, 2005 5:14:17 am PDT #4651 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
My vote is for "What happens in Natter 35 stays in Natter 35". And I also like the thread headers on each page--very handy.
Jon B. - Apr 28, 2005 5:27:56 am PDT #4652 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is that what you're describing?
That could be some of it. It could also be people hitting the submit button before they notice a typo in their username.
Jessica - Apr 28, 2005 5:38:09 am PDT #4653 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Would it be worth deleting some of those half-registrations just to clean out the database? (Say, if someone registers but doesn't complete the validation process for three months, we assume they're not coming back for that account.)
Polter-Cow - Apr 28, 2005 12:50:07 pm PDT #4654 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Now that the thread header appears on every page, the Music thread gets pushed down several inches by its eight-line rhyme. Could it be reformatted or shortened? Unless I'm the only person this bugs.
DXMachina - Apr 28, 2005 1:36:43 pm PDT #4655 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nah, I was thinking the same thing, and I'm the one who put it there in the first place. Lemmee see what I can do.
(Although I will say that two inches is no big deal when you've got your preferences set to deliver fifty posts at a time.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 28, 2005 2:02:59 pm PDT #4656 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
this bullshit isn't going to consense itself
Oh, if not for the profanity this would make such a good Bureaucracy title...
I too like "What happens in Natter 35 stays in Natter 35."