Continual polite reminders that he's misspelled his name?
Simon: I, uh... I never-never shot anyone before. Book: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.
'War Stories'
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
Connie Neil - Dec 26, 2002 6:41:20 pm PST #1444 of 10001
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§ ita § - Dec 26, 2002 6:42:28 pm PST #1445 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Let's make it not contingent on "posts here regularly" David Fruy should also be discouraged. Just in case.
And then the wording for the official record (and the registration page) should say that Stompy Feet reserve the rights to pooh pooh any name, but we'll explain why.
John H - Dec 26, 2002 6:43:06 pm PST #1446 of 10001
what about offensive names? Do we let folks register as "Fuckface" or something similar?
I think those things could be discussed here, case-by-case. I'd veto "fuckface" because of work and filters and whatever. People always object to thread names having those words in them.
P.M. Marc - Dec 26, 2002 6:43:49 pm PST #1447 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
And then the wording for the official record (and the registration page) should say that Stompy Feet reserve the rights to pooh pooh any name, but we'll explain why.
Good idea.
We may also want to register PTB names so that they can't be grabbed. If a PTB wants it, they can be given the password.
DXMachina - Dec 26, 2002 6:46:09 pm PST #1448 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We may also want to register PTB names so that they can't be grabbed. If a PTB wants it, they can be given the password.
I like that. We still have to kill names like Minaer or Fruy (unless they fax us a copy of their birth certificate. :) )
P.M. Marc - Dec 26, 2002 6:47:06 pm PST #1449 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
We can register as many of those as we can think of, too.
DXMachina - Dec 26, 2002 6:49:16 pm PST #1450 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We can register as many of those as we can think of, too.
We don't have to. We only have to deactivate the ones that people actually try to register.
P.M. Marc - Dec 26, 2002 6:50:20 pm PST #1451 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
We don't have to. We only have to deactivate the ones that people actually try to register.
But... but... it would be FUN!!!
But yeah, good point.
amych - Dec 26, 2002 6:50:47 pm PST #1452 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Okay, a first attempt at a reasonable PTB list:
Producers
note: Joss posts as "joss" and has proved himself capable of finding his way back; anyone trying to register "Joss Whedon" needs to be looked at as carefully as the misspellings.
Writers
Actors (maybe just regulars/recurrings, not one-offs?
Known SO's of the above?
Obvious misspellings of any of the above.
... anyone else?
billytea - Dec 26, 2002 6:56:01 pm PST #1453 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.
Ok, following on from the recent Firefly situation, and just to harp on a tricky issue, the short etiquette guide states that offensive posts will be a problem. Should we say "posts that are offensive to this community", or something like that?