But you have a new Tempur-Pedic mattress--you should be dancing in the streets!
Lilah ,'Just Rewards (2)'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
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you should be dancing in the streets!
I think you misspelled "sheets".
I would pay to see either!
I've always thought that having two anouncements threads was a bit of overkill.
It works for me, as long as other people follow the same...guidelines.
One is business, the other is about us as people.
It works for me, as long as other people follow the same...guidelines.
Agreed. But, I'm always waking up on the cranky side of the bed about this.
Yeah, it would be nice if folks followed the guidelines, but they either don't understand them, or don't bother, and as such it's just reduced to the two threads you check for stuff that people want to announce.
One is business, the other is about us as people.
So in this respect Kristin should have made two posts. One in Beep Me about buying a new car, and another in Press about having a car for sale. Is this a correct understanding?
I think that the real differentiating factor is that beep me was concieved in response to people wanting a thread to "catch up" with people, even if they didn't have time to read the threads. A digest/summary was suggested, but ultimately, no one wanted to do it/some people felt it was an invasion of privacy. So Beep me is sort of an opt in digest. What would you want your fellow Buffistas to know if they were dark and only had a few minutes to read.
IIRC, Press was a response to basically "spamming" ourselves with announcements, especially while we were fundraising and building the board. So this is primarily a vehicle to make sure that EVERYONE, regardless of the thread they frequent, reads your announcement, of a non-personal nature.
I don't know whether or not this method still works or if people who weren't around when the decisions were made can even understand the fine distinction.
One is business, the other is about us as people.
This. I always think of Press as something that you might want to act on. So, if you don't read it, you might miss out on something concrete, whereas if you don't read Beep Me, you'll just be behind on personal news.
Or, you know, what Sophia said.