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
we x-posted -- I wasn't responding to anything you said.
It was just the I wrote my post and then read yours and then realized that despite agreeing with you, it could be seen like I don't - I didn't express myself clearly, that's all.
I don't think we need to be so nervous about how we'll deal with problems. If past performance is any indication, we're really pretty damn good at it, and we should relax and enjoy what we've created.
If this was a secret thread where only certain Popular Kids came and talked behind people's backs, you'd have a point with the Big Brother thing. But you can't have a public "collective Big Brother" -- it's a contradiction in terms.
I'll just go around with the agreeing with the both of you, here. Again.
[Edit: askye, Mike_P "Firefly 2: You Can't Take the Sky From Me." Jan 1, 2003 3:42:28 pm EST]
I think the only person who tried to label the situation, or us, as Big Brother, was Mieskie, in his last post.
No, it was someone else. MikeP, I think.
Look, can we just cut to the chase, buy an island off e-Bay or something, and form our own government already? I trust Buffista governance more than the government I helped elect into power.
the only person who tried to label the situation, or us, as Big Brother, was Mieskie, in his last post
Mike_P mentioned the term too, that's all.
But nobody's giving Mike a hard time. It's a
literary
or usage point as much as anything. The term gets used much more broadly than its original incarnation in the novel and its usefulness is diluted when that happens.
1984 was a novel in which Big Brother honed in on, careened toward and then literally decimated offending citizens.
I have suggested this Buffista archipelago on several occasions.
May I say, as an unwitting Mieskie accomplice, and a newer than he was newbie, that I am really impressed, I can't stress that enough, with how this whole site is run. I've never been involved with anything online that is so open and clear and easily accessible. I don't really feel like a buffista yet, but I am happy to be able to read and post and think I will feel that way as I get to know people here. If my vote counts for anything, I wouldn't change a thing. You're fluid about things, but you know what matters. I, personally, have no problem with the idea of "we know who we are".
Okay, I missed that, my mistake.
1984 was a novel in which Big Brother honed in on, careened toward and then literally decimated offending citizens.
Shouldn't that be 'careered'? :)
(Y'all would have been proud of me the other night. I managed to get a friend of mine and his DW arguing about whether or not 'slayage' was a gerund.)
