River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.

'Objects In Space'


Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier  

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


Allyson - Dec 13, 2002 3:14:37 pm PST #1146 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Yeah, I see Beta people. Stompy fFoot may have to nick SO lists and club ads in the fucking bud.

Signed,

Fucking Paranoid, with Good Reason


Laura - Dec 13, 2002 3:29:49 pm PST #1147 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Maybe a welcome email to new users with a copy of the Site etiquette rules?


DXMachina - Dec 13, 2002 3:34:56 pm PST #1148 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

That's in the registration confirmation e-mail.


Hil R. - Dec 13, 2002 3:44:43 pm PST #1149 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Maybe for club advertisements, a stompy foot should just delete them and post something like, "the last paragraph of post #9845 (or whatever) has been deleted, because we try to keep these forums free of advertisements not directly related to the topic at hand." Or something. Or maybe not. I dunno.


Laura - Dec 13, 2002 3:51:37 pm PST #1150 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Deleting the portion and a private note might work.


Hil R. - Dec 13, 2002 3:54:16 pm PST #1151 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Maybe just a general sort of "no ads" message in the thread if there are many more of them?


§ ita § - Dec 13, 2002 5:22:02 pm PST #1152 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Many more? What did I miss?


Hil R. - Dec 13, 2002 5:25:10 pm PST #1153 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Firefly post 7971 was the one I noticed. I don't think there were others.


DXMachina - Dec 13, 2002 5:28:02 pm PST #1154 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Thing is, that post is really no different than posts we've had hyping Fury's Fanatics and the Minearketeers.


Hil R. - Dec 13, 2002 5:31:18 pm PST #1155 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'd say the difference was that the Fury's Fanatics and Minearketeers posts were usually in the treads for the shows those people write for, and usually in the context of a "trying to get to the 300th member" thing or a drawing or something like that, or just a one-sentence thing. Not a whole paragraph added onto an unrelated post.