'Touched'
This thread is a focused discussion group. Please see the first post below for the current topic and upcoming book discussions. While natter will inevitably happen, we encourage you to treat this like a virtual book club and try to keep your posts in that spirit.
By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
I regularly look over threads to see which are active and which are working and which might be closed. It's not eager, it's just organisation.
Isn't that what we worship you for? To keep us organized?
kat, you said you check what you're subscribed to for what's going on, but I got the impression that you didn't have much use for this thread.
I, for one, am glad so many folks are subscribed to this thread. And I view Jen's original post (revive or close) as a wake-up call to either use this thread, or lose it.
I won't propose we close it. I do think though, if this go-round doesn't work, we seriously ought to think about it.
Agreed.
Wait, Connie, here's what I don't get. In this post: connie neil "The Buffista Book Club: Isn't the Point of Computers to Replace Books?" Aug 2, 2005 7:54:45 am PDT and in this one: connie neil "The Buffista Book Club: Isn't the Point of Computers to Replace Books?" Aug 2, 2005 12:55:54 pm PDT you claim that people who were against the thread have undoubtedly forgotten of its existance.
So I either can remember its existence and then be told I'm eager for its demise or I can be forgetful about the whole thing.
So which is it?
So I either can remember its existence and then be told I'm eager for its demise or I can be forgetful about the whole thing.
So which is it?
YOu can relax and assume that I was speaking off the cuff because I didn't know people were keeping such a close eye on what I assumed was a non-issue.
I bet all the people who were so mortally disturbed by the idea of this thread have forgotten about it.
I'm very curious as to why people are watching this thread with such eagerness to declare it dead. Why care so much?
You can't have it both ways. You're castigating the people who were against the thread then for either forgetting all about it OR being obsessed with it.
xpost.
kat, you said you check what you're subscribed to for what's going on, but I got the impression that you didn't have much use for this thread.
I don't. But I read tons of things I don't have much use for and I read pretty widely around both this board and others even if I personally don't comment.
Please stop trying to paint me as an ogre.
Oh, for god's sake...
Someone here is terribly overwrought about this, and it's not me.
I don't know what "it all" is, msbelle.
it all, is naming names, not saying "some Buffistas" which I hate. Honestly I don't get why it came up at all. The thread closing and whether or not the thread was a thorn was being discussed. Neither of those had anything to do with the bookclub I started on LJ.
It seemed pointy, in that Buffistas were joining an lj bookclub, but didn't try this one out.
I don't even know what to think about statements like this. There are many things that I like to - discuss/do/post on the internet about - that I have zero interest in making a part of the entire b.org community.
Excuse me? I'm not the one casting aspersions about people either being forgetful or having it in for the thread.
I'm just being very upfront with you. I disagree with you. Big Fucking Deal. I frankly don't care if the thread stays or not.
But you made a statement I could disprove so I did. That doesn't make me overwrought. But I would like you stop sniping at me.
I think more than one person is being terribly overwrought, and the accusatory tone on all sides can stop now. Sound good?
Bureaucracy is where we get accusatory, people. Photos of cute baby butts notwithstanding.