Gunn ,'Power Play'
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
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?
I'm just waiting to someone to have an epiphany. Then they could tell us.
If nothing we post matters, then all that matters is what we post.
I'm thinking discovery rather than creation.
And not so much mandatory, as useful.
I agree.
Okay, the basis for my opinion just occurred to me - I'm active in a mailing list organized around a pop culture icon of sorts but evolved into a little community, but when that icon went away, the list lost a lot of its vibrancy. It exists, but it doesn't, for one thing, grow, and it's just less than it was. I have a dread of that happening here, I guess. Though there are a lot of differences between that list and b.org, size springing instantly to mind, and maybe that is not a reasonable fear.
If those that want a mission discover one, how will it changes things a) for them b) for those who don't care c) for those who fear the very word?