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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


DXMachina - Dec 18, 2002 8:24:18 pm PST #1221 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I see it. Plei and ita (edit: and Jon) are around, too, so I'm pretty sure there'll be no lack of stompy power when the time comes.


Jon B. - Dec 18, 2002 8:24:23 pm PST #1222 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

And I can start the new thread if no one else is around. t edit Whoops! Hi, fellow Feet!


msbelle - Dec 18, 2002 8:33:21 pm PST #1223 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

It's like a stompfest.


§ ita § - Dec 18, 2002 9:09:28 pm PST #1224 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Why are we announcing thread creation in Press?


Jon B. - Dec 18, 2002 9:14:22 pm PST #1225 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I just figured it would be less likely to get lost there. Didn't think it was inappropriate, but I'll bow to the will of the hive.


§ ita § - Dec 18, 2002 9:15:05 pm PST #1226 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's just that we've never done it before. I don't think it's needed, myself.


Jen - Dec 18, 2002 9:16:07 pm PST #1227 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

I thought the previous thread was usually closed with a link to the new one...?


billytea - Dec 18, 2002 9:17:28 pm PST #1228 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

It's just that we've never done it before. I don't think it's needed, myself.

I kind of like it. If a person uses 'Read New' to make their way around this place, they could theoretically never know a new thread's been created. (Less of an issue with continuations, presumably, but we do occasionally get new topics.) Having the announcements in a single thread might be not such a bad idea.


§ ita § - Dec 18, 2002 9:20:23 pm PST #1229 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My reflex is that if one navigates by read new exclusively, then one doesn't care (edit: much). Continuations are linked at the ends of threads, new threads are discussed and named and announced here.


Jen - Dec 18, 2002 9:23:22 pm PST #1230 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

I navigate by read new exclusively, and I care quite a bit!