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.
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Jessica - May 25, 2004 12:04:08 pm PDT #858 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
brenda m - May 25, 2004 12:05:06 pm PDT #859 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
brenda m - May 25, 2004 12:05:25 pm PDT #860 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
-t - May 25, 2004 12:06:59 pm PDT #861 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm thinking discovery rather than creation.
And not so much mandatory, as useful.
msbelle - May 25, 2004 12:09:18 pm PDT #862 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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?
Polter-Cow - May 25, 2004 12:11:35 pm PDT #863 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Sophia Brooks - May 25, 2004 12:12:21 pm PDT #864 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm thinking discovery rather than creation.
And not so much mandatory, as useful.
I agree.
-t - May 25, 2004 12:15:54 pm PDT #865 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
§ ita § - May 25, 2004 12:17:13 pm PDT #866 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
brenda m - May 25, 2004 12:17:50 pm PDT #867 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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 think there's a few people who never did. My understanding is that there's quite a lot of people in Minearverse and Firefly who don't. (I'm not in either of those right now due to time constraints, mostly.) And I'll repeat that I'm not saying that I think we're falling apart at the seams. But I'm hearing a lot of people saying it makes no difference if they do or they don't, and it's nothing we can or should try to affect anyway. And I don't get that.