The key isn't what the rule is, it's whether posters know it, and if they follow it.
Since the rule is already delineated, I don't think a new rule would help -- it's just not clear or memorable enough what the current rule is.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
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 21, 2002 8:49:52 pm PST #1317 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jen - Dec 21, 2002 9:00:29 pm PST #1318 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
it's just not clear or memorable enough what the current rule is.
So instead of a new rule, can the current one be added to the FAQ? Unless I've missed it, there's just the explanation of how to make font white. Also, in this part of the FAQ it says:
Spoilers should only be posted in the spoiler thread or in white font in the main thread.
which isn't accurate anymore.
And while I'm reading the FAQ--has there been any thought to editing out the spoilers from the FAQ to provide a FAQ that's safe for UnAmericans? I'd be happy to take a shot at it if people think it's a good idea.
Sue - Dec 21, 2002 9:39:09 pm PST #1319 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Jen, Unamericans are current up to the end of Season 6. Is there anything in the FAQ that's spoilery for them? I just did a cursory look, and couldn't see anything.
Also, I noticed that there's a question about the Stor-Troopers, which are no longer around. Do we want to delete that?
Jen - Dec 21, 2002 10:06:59 pm PST #1320 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
I don't think there's any Season 7/4 stuff up there, but I wonder if it's only a matter of time.
I dunno. If people don't think it's necessary, that's fine--I don't frequent the UnAmerican thread so I don't know the opinion there.
John H - Dec 21, 2002 10:40:03 pm PST #1321 of 10001
As an Unamerican, I vote for no spoilers in the FAQ, or whitefonted spoilers only.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 21, 2002 11:04:58 pm PST #1322 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
(Hey. John. OT. Did you maybe get my emails?)
Jon B. - Dec 22, 2002 12:13:50 am PST #1323 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
As an Unamerican, I vote for no spoilers in the FAQ, or whitefonted spoilers only.
I've always assumed that's a given (and I've been doing most of the FAQ editing lately). I wouldn't even put in any white-fonted stuff in the FAQ.
§ ita § - Dec 22, 2002 12:28:46 am PST #1324 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The FAQ used to say where it was spoilery through. Once that stopped I assumed it was because it was Australian safe.
Jon -- I know you're annotating the hell out of your changes up in the revisions section of the FAQ. You and I are the only ones that can edit it, and as you may have noticed, me NSM with the updating.
Which is my segue (but not my segway, since I have not one of those) into:
Q: Was that really Joss?
Michele T. - Dec 22, 2002 12:34:42 am PST #1325 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
A: Yes. He's only visited us the once, though, and vague rumors of a Second Coming have so far been just that.
Is that too blasphemous, or just blasphemous enough?
Jon B. - Dec 22, 2002 12:37:52 am PST #1326 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Except that he was here twice.