It's nice that we haven't been linked to directly recently by Whedonesque posters. But all it is is nice.

On a related note, what's with the spate of new registrations over the last couple of days (and by spate, I mean six). Have we been linked to from somewhere?

There was a mention, but not direct link, on Whedonesque. [link]

Thanks Jesse. I'm months behind in minearverse.

So is it the consensus that Caroline or Simon can switch out the link to Tim's post, given that it shouldn't cause us any technical difficulties?

I think the consensus is that we appreciate people not linking to us directly, no?

I think the validity mentioning a post on Whedonesqe is different if Tim is announcing a pilot pickup or green light or cancellation than it is if he is just chatting. I also try to think that people here are usually grown up enough to realize the difference. It's just my opinion though. And my optomism.

So I'm being needlessly overprotective?

No, Allyson. Your primary concern has been the server, which I actually get - an example is all the other sites I run can cope with a Whedonesque link or a Slashdot link for that matter, but SerenityMovie.org can not - it would collapse in a heap at the moment if linked from a high profile site, and I would cry (or at least, be a little snarkfoo).

If the server should be okay, I'll change the link to any future posts direct to Buffistas (unless it's anything related to Spike).

Pretty obviously there is a judgement call to be made between friendly chatter and PUT ME ON THE INTERNET content. I hope I haven't crossed that line with this link.

No need for the admonishment, Nutty.

None intended. I guess this situation just -- I guess I was/am just totally unclear on why this is coming up now. I was re-reading old Bureaucracy a week or two ago, researching a finer point of policy, and I read this discussion near-verbatim in the old threads several times, and usually at moments of much more obvious identity/server/influx crisis. (The Firefly half-season being one of them; Wonderfalls being another.)

I don't think the only issue is server load. It's also...um...residual weirdness from the spate of newbies we got when Joss posted here. Or when something happened. Basically, if people just show up in a thread, they may not get a sense of what this place is really like, and what the community is like. We had a lot of people addressing posts to Joss, which was kind of pointless, since he's posted here two or three times in however many years.

It's like the difference between coming in the front door and climbing in through a window.

But we cannot do anything about that, except ignore people if they bother us or block them. Because that line of what is annoying is so different for everyone in the community. Some don't think we need to allow new registrations at all.

I wish people wouldn't link to Tim's posts here. He has made announcements about things in other boards, he knows they are there. Also, any Tim news that has been officially released by him will be posted at TimMinear.net, yes? (eta: upon further review, maybe not)

That said, it will continue to happen and we can't do anything about any influx of new people, cool or not, except decide how to react to them.