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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
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.
But we cannot do anything about that, except ignore people if they bother us or block them.
Except we've asked Whedonesque not to link to us directly.
I'm not saying new people are bad. New people are new and sometimes shiny.
msbelle, I'm not comfortable announcing the pickup on the site until after 20th releases the news themselves.
Asking Whedonesque to edit our URL out of any post their users put up--well, if they bother, fine. If they don't want to (and it seems they don't even want posters to be oblique anymore) we have to suck it up. It's totally their call. And it's not a rude call. I think it's quite reasonable.
Yeah, Whedonesque is doing us a favor, which is nice.
Caroline, Whedonesque's site owner, doesn't like the circular links on the blog anymore.
What's a circular link? Is that just where it's only linked to b.org rather than to the thread/post URL?
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.I don't know that there is a line, except in any individual's head, unless our stompies say, "The server can't hold," or something. Personally, I would no sooner Whedonesque a Buffista conversation than I would a LJ exchange with my friends, or a phone call with my mother. In other words, I don't like it, but I don't know that I think you did anything wrong, it just feels ooky-to-me ooky.
What's a circular link? Is that just where it's only linked to b.org rather than to the thread/post URL?
I believe it's when you post a link to the post that contains the link.
Heh. I feel just like I did after ANMMHE