If you come back after 3 weeks dark to check up, do you care that I can't work my VCR? I'm very Beep Me pro keeping it pure.
Jayne: Here's a little concept I been workin' on. Why don't we shoot her first? Wash: It is her turn.
'Serenity'
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
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2002 11:48:59 am PDT #216 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Sep 25, 2002 12:10:35 pm PDT #217 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh, and when/if Beep Me rolls over, I'd like to see it titled: Beep Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2002 2:10:34 pm PDT #218 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I notice the header for Buffy Semi-Spoilers got changed to expand the scope of the thread to include magazine interviews -- was this done with consensus? Will Angel Semi-Spoilers be expanded the same way?
Sophia Brooks - Sep 25, 2002 2:14:36 pm PDT #219 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My understanding was it was the consensus we actually reached at WX, but didn't post, therefore leading to inadvertant spoilage of someone.
Our guiding force, I think, is "common knowledge", which is hard to regulate.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 25, 2002 2:15:01 pm PDT #220 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
And I don't know about the Angel thing, but my sense is that it should be.
Jessica - Sep 25, 2002 2:15:58 pm PDT #221 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The new header in Buffy Lite Spoilage is a clarification of thread policy, not a change, so I suppose the Angel Lite Spoilage header should be changed the same way.
P.M. Marc - Sep 25, 2002 2:15:59 pm PDT #222 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
There wasn't consensus, it can be changed back. It was in the original WX mission statement, and should have been there. Same for the Angel Thread, actually.
And it was added in response to a discussion in there. Mea culpa.
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2002 2:17:02 pm PDT #223 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. Well, we have to be both clear and consistent -- there's a lot of new faces here, both to the Buffistas in general, and to each thread in specific.
So we have to carefully but thoroughly move from hivemind to documentation -- and with Angel thread too.
Knowledge is rarely common enough.
DXMachina - Sep 25, 2002 2:24:54 pm PDT #224 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
So we have to carefully but thoroughly move from hivemind to documentation --
So, you're saying that our next step towards world domination is ISO 9001?
Typo Boy - Sep 25, 2002 2:25:42 pm PDT #225 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.
And as the board grows I think a certain amount of thread proliferation is both inevitable and desirable - especially natter spinoffs. Natter is already busy enough skimming and skipping is the only way most can keep up. Double or triple it, and that applies to everybody - which means lots of frustrated people with unanswered posts. The solution, start spinning off areas of interest; politics/social issues, makeup/haircare/skin care, clothing (including underwear and shoes)+accesories, movies, a single theread for other TV (Television shows that don't already have their own threads), etc (with there still being a "core" natter thread of course).
The point being to divide up Natter into enough threads that a person could choose a couple to keep up with, and skim or skip the rest. And yes of course this can wait until the rate of Natter doubles - say in a wekk and a half.