It's just that we've never done it before. I don't think it's needed, myself.
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
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
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2002 9:15:05 pm PST #1226 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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!
Jon B. - Dec 18, 2002 9:25:19 pm PST #1231 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It's just that we've never done it before.
Errr.... I did it last week for the Secret Santa thread: Jon B "Sunnydale Press" Dec 9, 2002 3:11:03 pm EST
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2002 9:27:36 pm PST #1232 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I navigate by read new exclusively, and I care quite a bit!
But you read here, so you know when a new thread is created. I assumed that people who cared when new threads come about would read where they're created, or scan the list periodically.
Otherwise it's an inefficient sort of caring, bound for disappointment.
Jon, why don't we pretend we're having this discussion last week, then. I must have skimmed past (and, sue me, I do, sometimes, but I didn't know I'd be missing board-specific announcements by doing so. I thought those were here).
Jon B. - Dec 18, 2002 9:30:48 pm PST #1233 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jon, why don't we pretend we're having this discussion last week, then.
Sorry, that came out snottier than I intended. Like I said, I bow to consensus, but since thread creation is a rare occurence, I think announcements about them might be missed here. In Press, not so much.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 18, 2002 9:32:22 pm PST #1234 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
But you read here, so you know when a new thread is created.
But someone who comes just for, say, discussion of Buffy, and never reads administrivia threads except SP-- they might think, Hey, it's a LotR thread! I'd like to check that out, and we'd then benefit from their finding about the new thread.
Unless they're a total prat. But whatever.
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2002 9:37:58 pm PST #1235 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But someone who comes just for, say, discussion of Buffy, and never reads administrivia threads except SP
Well, yeah, and if they don't read SP? Then what do we do for them? I figured if you wanted to know what's happening with thread creation, you'd come to the thread where it happens.
I guess all I ask is that they're double posted since while they may not not belong there, they do belong here, and on a day with any busyness, I'm not going to notice them there, just here. Moving them from here bothers me more than duplication. Which does bother me, mind.