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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


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?


Michele T. - Sep 21, 2002 12:25:30 pm PDT #153 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I think that deliberate expansion rather than organic growth is a dangerous path.

What She Said. If you push to hard to make it something other than what it is, it will become something different, but not the something different that you want it to be.

And a 'zine would not be "just a little more work." It would be a lot of work. People would have to rewrite posts as self-contained essays. Other people would have to edit them, and that's a touchy situation even when all the parties involved are getting paid for it. (porn unintentional). Publishing schedules would have to be set and met. Please note the problems folks are having with these very same issues in the Anthology thread (porn intentional). And for what purpose? It takes the site away from what it's built to do -- host discussions. If at some point we wanted to say, here's an archive of stuff people here have written about Buffy, which will be added to on an irregular basis, that's maybe something to consider, but I don't see the point of anything more complex.


Typo Boy - Sep 21, 2002 12:51:33 pm PDT #154 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.

OK, (getting read to post a politcal essay the size of the great American novel.)


DavidS - Sep 21, 2002 1:17:33 pm PDT #155 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Pull up the drawbridge?

I overstated it.

Where's the vibe you're seeing?

Just caution. Protecting This Thing Of Ours. Which is appropriate and right.


Sue - Sep 21, 2002 1:54:24 pm PDT #156 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I think jengod is on to something. We've only been here a week. We've yet to crash the server. We're still on honeymoon with this board, so let's see where moving here takes us.

Also, it is heaven on a stick. So fast, so roomy.