Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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
why would being a part of this community because of BtVS be a bad thing?
What if you hate Buffy? Would you not then be able to be part of the community?
I read it wrong, I think. It made me bristle, because of the idea that coming to b.org because of BtVS is a bad thing, when really I ought to have read it to mean "It's cool if you don't like BtVS; you can still belong here."
yep, big divide. maybe split into two boards?
It was more meant as a "And thank god for that. Or else I'd have to find some other place to waste time at work."
yep, big divide. maybe split into two boards?
I call this one!
maybe split into two boards?
Or a big no-mission thread?
No, I'm goofing.
But I don't see the bridge between those who see a mission as antithetical to what we've evolved into, even if it was clear back inthe day before the broody guy got his own show, and those who think we need one to survive the end of days.
I'm also not sure if those who think a mission is mandatory thinks that it's a matter of creating one, or of discovering what it's been all the time.
I'm also not sure if those who think a mission is mandatory thinks that it's a matter of creating one, or of discovering what it's been all the time.
I'm just waiting to someone to have an epiphany. Then they could tell us.
Subcommunities have been insular for YEARS, though, and those divisions formed while both shows were still on the air.
Sure they have. But by and large, most people who were part of one sub-c also had ties to one or more other ones. Which is an important part of fostering that sense of community that makes this place special. Yes, there's always been some divisions, and some of those have gotten greater as we've grown.
That means that trying to encourage (which isn't the same thing as imposing) those cross-connections is pointless? I don't see it that way at all.
I'm thinking discovery rather than creation.
And not so much mandatory, as useful.
But by and large, most people who were part of one sub-c also had ties to one or more other ones.
and they don't know? when do we think it changed?