Riley ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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
I propose that since msbelle is doing the work, she gets final say on which edits to accept/reject, because she's all smart and stuff.
If someone gets mental about it, msbelle will make the requested change for $25 a word.
And I get 15% as the agent of this suggestion.
What msbelle said. People won't say, "Oh, you don't know what NATLBSB means!!" People will say, Why did you delete X, Y and Z?"
I imagine it's worthwhile to repost or Nilly the original rationale that got us revising, to provide context, but even so -- we made editorial decisions, and people are gonna disagree with those decisions each in his/her own way. Even if we do an up/down vote on FAQ 2.0, what if it's voted down? Do we start all over again with the revision?
(N.b. I don't think anybody really wants the FAQ to stay as it is now; it's needed an update/streamline for a long time.)
I am concerned that everyone will have a comment on something, and then a comment on everyone's comment, and it'll be a zoo for the people who have to edit.
Yeah, this is my concern. For every change, there will be five suggestions of how it really should have been changed.
For the FAQ, I'd prefer to go with a consensus, rather than a vote, just for precedent's sake.
it'll be a zoo for the people who have to edit.
Not if they ignore what they want to. Fiat. We don't have enough fiat around here. They are the people that stepped up to the plate, not as tools of our individual wills. They're doing the dirty work, and I feel they (and I'm not even sure who they are) can be trusted just fine in the end.
Fiat fiat fiat!
I officially abdicate any say in the new FAQ.
msbelle is my master now.
who do we blame for Dancing/Skating with the Stars? Soon we'll have an all new Battle of the Network Stars program.
OMG we ARE the pink-assault-rifle coup!! I was so sure camo would blend in better!
Seriously, how do people feel about a comment period, after which the Committee of Being All Up In Everybody's Business decides by fiat what comments we'll accept and what we'll turn down? Do you guys trust us to do that?
Promise we will not have a whole FAQ page about cottage cheese and my butt.
Promise we will not have a whole FAQ page about cottage cheese and my butt.
I'd read it.
t continues munching on cottage-cheese-based mushroom-veggie patty.