But you have a new Tempur-Pedic mattress--you should be dancing in the streets!
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
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
megan walker - Jul 03, 2006 8:02:47 am PDT #6840 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
juliana - Jul 03, 2006 8:03:34 am PDT #6841 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
you should be dancing in the streets!
I think you misspelled "sheets".
megan walker - Jul 03, 2006 8:07:17 am PDT #6842 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I would pay to see either!
NoiseDesign - Jul 03, 2006 8:16:01 am PDT #6843 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
I've always thought that having two anouncements threads was a bit of overkill.
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2006 8:19:42 am PDT #6844 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It works for me, as long as other people follow the same...guidelines.
One is business, the other is about us as people.
P.M. Marc - Jul 03, 2006 8:40:04 am PDT #6845 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
NoiseDesign - Jul 03, 2006 8:42:03 am PDT #6846 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
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.
NoiseDesign - Jul 03, 2006 8:50:55 am PDT #6847 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
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?
Sophia Brooks - Jul 03, 2006 8:54:50 am PDT #6848 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
megan walker - Jul 03, 2006 8:59:37 am PDT #6849 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.