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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
Do we discuss preservation, though?
I thought about that. I originally put "the preservation of" before discussions of. I dunno, I just came to this board for Buffy and Angel and don't want to lose that. Not that change isn't evil, but it may just have to at some point in time.
How about:
We first came together to discuss Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and branched out into the rest of the Whedonverse as it developed. We quickly discovered we had more in common than just an obsessive love for a group of TV shows, and began to discuss, well, pretty much everything. Obsessively. With good grammar, good humor, and good will. That's where we are today.
Me, I'd just slip "originally" in at the start of the existing blurb. The list of threads below pretty much indicates we don't do just that anymore.
I like that Steph. Like it a lot.
Me, I'd just slip "originally" in at the start of the existing blurb. The list of threads below pretty much indicates we don't do just that anymore.This.
or "built upon" in place of "dedicated"
Me, I'd just slip "originally" in at the start of the existing blurb.
I agree with the idea, except originally we didn't discuss Firefly.
and change is Evil
Depends on what you consider the start of the board. I think the start is when we were discussing Jossverse shows. That start ended when Angel was cancelled. Which tucks Firefly in the origin quite neatly.
In the Change Is Evil category: I'm sticking with my archeologist preference for leaving the dedication because there's more history and knowledge implicit in that, than mashing up some generic, covers-all-points menu description of who we are now.
In short, a Sphinx with no nose, buried up to its neck in sand tells us more about Egypt and its history than a nose-job excavated Sphinx.
Me, I'd just slip "originally" in at the start of the existing blurb.
So simple, so easy! Let's do that one.
Why is describing the past more important than describing the present? Would you ask all Egyptians to live the way they did when the Sphinx was built, to make archeology easier?
If that blurb has a use, I think it should have a use now. It is useful for it to also describe the past -- they're not mutually exclusive. We originally came together to talk about Joss stuff. We still do, plus other crap.