Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!

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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


Typo Boy - Sep 21, 2002 10:56:10 am PDT #143 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Even without articulation, I can see the point. I don't think anyone can keep up on all the posts now.


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2002 11:04:13 am PDT #144 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Now, adding resources whose primary users are us? I'm all for that (cf episode database). But content seems like a deliberate expansion, one whose ramifications and requirements need to be carefully considered.


sumi - Sep 21, 2002 11:04:42 am PDT #145 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Here's something that I didn't know would happen: if I'm on a computer that isn't my own - - like today when I'm at the public library - - it still remembers me at this terminal. . . should that be happening?

The problem occurs when the computer kicks me off - - if I don't log-out of the Phoenix Board before hand, it's remembering me.

So does this mean I have to set my preferences for logging me out each time?


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2002 11:08:17 am PDT #146 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sumi -- yes. Remember me does just that. If you don't want to take that setting off, then you need to manually log off every time you use a shared computer, just like WX or TT or PF.


sumi - Sep 21, 2002 11:18:01 am PDT #147 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Okay. . . I'll have to be careful then.


Burrell - Sep 21, 2002 11:29:12 am PDT #148 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

One thing someone (Evil Jimi?) said in a joking tone, was that the developers might sell the code.

Some coder types (ie, my husband) are big on open source.

Sumi, my preferences are set to Remember Me, but if I deliberately log out from my work computer, it logs me out.


P.M. Marc - Sep 21, 2002 11:33:00 am PDT #149 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Now, adding resources whose primary users are us? I'm all for that (cf episode database). But content seems like a deliberate expansion, one whose ramifications and requirements need to be carefully considered.

Yes. That's it exactly, and I think that deliberate expansion rather than organic growth is a dangerous path.


DavidS - Sep 21, 2002 11:38:09 am PDT #150 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Heh, now that we're finally ensconced on Buffista Island I am definitely getting a "let's pull up the drawbridge" vibe.

I'm fine with that, I guess, but I would like to have a few breadcrumbs out there that might lure in discriminating viewers. I would still like to make up some Anyas for this current season.


jengod - Sep 21, 2002 11:58:56 am PDT #151 of 10001

I am anti-content.

We have filk. We can Anya all we want. We can write the Great American Novel. We can post it on the site and point neon signs at it.

But I don't think we need to create some whole other thing...

We've been here less than a week. It's heaven-on-a-stick. Before we start with the self-gratifying imperialistic tendencies, let's make sure the needs of everyone currently on the boards have been met, that everything works, and that we've made whatever simple improvements we can that would offer a large return on the effort expended.


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2002 12:19:43 pm PDT #152 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Pull up the drawbridge? I've handed the URL out to more people than I ever have. People I've never heard of have shown up and posted.

Where's the vibe you're seeing?