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
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.
Oh, dear. Yeah. I was on a very neat mailing list for Babylon 5 that was a great community until about three months after the last episode. Most people moved on to a different mailing list. Some of us just drifted away. Now, b.org is more complex than a mailing list, so there is at the least more here to serve as mass to push the inertia that will definitely keep this going for a while. The one thing I am not sure about is whether active force can be applied to said mass to keep it moving and not fall due to gravity. I'd like to think so. Sheer desire to keep the ties going and an established means of doing so exist. I think what we have here is a dither over details of how. On that, I'd say continuing to watch what the community seems to need and moving to do it when possible will do a fair bit.
I vote for the One True Thread approach! Whee anti-proliferationistas!
No, really, I'm not actually all that worried about it. And I'm giddy with dvd news, and the ME writers article, and it's making me think. You know, our ME staff haven't fallen off the earth. They haven't declared their muse dead and their pen passionless. I think we're going to have plenty to follow, and plenty of new blood, and plenty of intelligent discourse.
I think we're going to have plenty to follow, and plenty of new blood, and plenty of intelligent discourse.
discreetly cuts off the valve for the laughing gas...
Liese, you are all hopped up on optimism and good feeling. How did your weekend with the sponsors go?
Ah. It is not the laughing gas you should be after. It is the cold medicine. Because it is GOOOOD.
Also? Did I mention I'm not worried?
Which is not to say that I don't think splintering into factions is a good and healthy thing for a community. I do think it's certain flavors of inevitable, though. It's just the attitude we maintain betwixt subcommunities. Just so we all still respect each other, despite the other's inexplicable mountie fixations.
It went great. Gee, why do you ask?
Edited to add. Yeah, the optimism pretty uncharacteristic, eh?
Edited to add. Yeah, the optimism pretty uncharacteristic, eh?
Nah, I think of you as a positive (if snarky) human. You're supposed to be though since you're teaching the world to sing (and play Geddy Lee basslines).
Ha! Then I have you fooled, silly mortal! And also, I am currently teaching Krist Novoselic basslines, because, much easier. Furthermore, I propose that this thread be repurposed to be Liese and the Love We All Have For Her, and that all other threads be closed.
But to the point of the matter, I suppose I seem to feel that we should let things live a little and see how we breathe with them. As to the shows brought up, while I watch a few (Stargate) of them, I don't currently post about any of them. Anywhere, not just not here. Viewer and fan two different things, I suppose. But I'm open to seeing where the board wants to go.
