Also still not for music.
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
Also not for music.
I think our relative musical mileages tend to vary too much for a sustained discussion with a critical mass of people.
Calls for a music thread again, BTW.
Which I'm still against.
I have no real opinion on the matter, but should note that the big reason we were against it before was because of the already-extant threads in WXing and TT, which Fater was a big part of, IIRC.
Still, I'm inclined to think that music natter, even more than technoogy and book natter, will roam freely around the board, and that fencing it may be a self-defeating prospect.
technoogy
Heh. Some typos are too funny to fix.
I want to note that Buffistechnoogy (new name) is more of a Q&A thread than a chat thread.
It's not a thread where I'd want to discourage natter, but it ought to be a thread that anyone can go to with a question about computers or whatever, and a thread that people who can help with computers and whatever keep an eye on. I don't know what an apposite name for that kind of thread is, but it's kind of different to the other ones in my mental map.
I'm giving Victor a technoogy right now, AIFG!
Also against a music thread, for all the reasons already cited because Hayden's board (which I've forgotten the location of) is a great resource for music geeks that seemed to me in sync enough with the Buffista vibe that one could be perfectly comfortable there.
Also against a music thread, because everyone here except me has appalling taste in music and I would just get frustrated reading it.
(That was a joke. You all got that, right?)
Random thought...
Would it be in violation of our codes to autospork someone like, say Dr. Lloyd, should he have the nerve to show his face?
He's the worst. person. ever. And a bad speller, too. I don't know. I think you let someone speak, and if the speech is only (as this person is want to do) to monitor for VIP posting, then show up to attack them, then you just send 'em packing.
I hate this shit. I liked the island.