Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.

Jayne ,'The Message'


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


Jessica - Sep 25, 2002 2:58:41 pm PDT #255 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Perhaps "widely and officially disseminated" is more accurate.

Absolutely.


Jesse - Sep 25, 2002 3:00:28 pm PDT #256 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

What's the difference between Wanda and TVGuide?

That's a serious question.


Steph L. - Sep 25, 2002 3:01:33 pm PDT #257 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

That's probably only something a totally spoiled person could answer.


P.M. Marc - Sep 25, 2002 3:03:45 pm PDT #258 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

What's the difference between Wanda and TVGuide?

She hunts for spoilers. She's all about giving out spoilers.

TV Guide tends to, with some annoying exceptions, be more vague about things, and can be hard to avoid it you're looking up times/is it an new episode/etc.


Jessica - Sep 25, 2002 3:04:32 pm PDT #259 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

My gut feeling is that Wanda publishes spoilers and TVGuide publishes summaries. Since I don't read Wanda, I have no idea how widely their content differs.


Jesse - Sep 25, 2002 3:04:46 pm PDT #260 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I guess my question is, if the Official Word is Wanda=not OK, TVGuide=OK, how do you know where other things fall. If I saw it on E! is it OK? If I read it online at the Washington Post website?

I just don't know how to make it clear for new people, and I think that's what the policy/blurb need to be.


Jessica - Sep 25, 2002 3:05:57 pm PDT #261 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

"When in doubt, white it out" was the policy at WX.


Jesse - Sep 25, 2002 3:06:52 pm PDT #262 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Personally, I'd love to read a thread with whitefonted spoilers, each with a description of what kind of spoiler it is.


Burrell - Sep 25, 2002 3:17:23 pm PDT #263 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

See, this is why I avoid spoiler threads entirely, even though I don't necessarily avoid getting spoiled. It's just easier.

Ok so it is pretty clear that everyone but me is anti-thread drift (or at least an overwhelming majority).

I may be misunderstanding you, but I thought it was the other way around. What many of us like about Natter is the thread drift from topic to topic, and therefore we didn't want to see topic-specific Natter threads.


Anne W. - Sep 25, 2002 3:23:54 pm PDT #264 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

What many of us like about Natter is the thread drift from topic to topic, and therefore we didn't want to see topic-specific Natter threads.

Burrell speaks for me. I love going into Natter and having no clue where those 40 (or more) unread messages are going to take me.

I do like the idea of a tape fairy thread.