I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.

River ,'Objects In Space'


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


Jon B. - Jan 19, 2003 12:48:22 am PST #3094 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Me neither. t edit except what billytea said...

I go to sleep now.


Liese S. - Jan 19, 2003 12:49:06 am PST #3095 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Hrm. But right now, wouldn't it be editable-back in by the original poster? Our edit never expires, right?


Jon B. - Jan 19, 2003 12:50:10 am PST #3096 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

We could delete the offending fake-stompy post.

(really going to sleep)


billytea - Jan 19, 2003 12:51:39 am PST #3097 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Hrm. But right now, wouldn't it be editable-back in by the original poster? Our edit never expires, right?

Well, if it's in our etiquette, then it would warrant a warning and (if they persist) suspension, at which point the edit capability would (I presume) expire. But of course, even if they couldn't edit that particular post but retained posting capacity, they could simply re-post (if they really wanted to play silly-buggers).


Michele T. - Jan 19, 2003 6:13:58 am PST #3098 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I think there are going to be some people who won't listen if it doesn't come from an admin ID. And I think, yes, the BSFs have power, however lightly worn or democratically given -- using the admin ID, or adding admin IDs for the BSFs isn't something to write off entirely.


Cindy - Jan 19, 2003 8:42:53 am PST #3099 of 10001
Nobody

In my opinion, if someone isn't willing to listen to an admin. posting under his or her regular Buffista name, one who is recognized by the community-at-large as an admin., an "admin" i.d. isn't going to make a bit of difference.


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 19, 2003 8:44:14 am PST #3100 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Yes.

It should be just as important if victor warns you as if the admin id warns you.

... I could say more about this but I don't think the grammar in that sentence is even at all correct, so I'll quit right now.


Cindy - Jan 19, 2003 8:46:40 am PST #3101 of 10001
Nobody

Heee - me, too. I had a whole second paragraph I couldn't make sense of, and realized it was just a restatement anyhow.


evil jimi - Jan 19, 2003 9:40:12 am PST #3102 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Go for the Faceless Stompy. Always better. If someone needs stompin' it's better to come from "admin" rather than the name of a person they otherwise consider a friend. Prevents resentment formenting.


Anathema - Jan 19, 2003 10:30:58 am PST #3103 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero

Schmoker, I think the principle I follow is, if anyone says they were offended by what you wrote, apologise.

Understand the policy and will follow it.

I would like to ask a question, however.

Does anyone find it ironic (or even a little disturbing) that we all worship these shows where people who care about each other can be completely ruthless towards each other, making the most snide and disparaging comments at will, yet if someone on the board were to even sneeze cross-eyed at someone else, they have to apologize six ways from Sunday?

Think Xander or Cordy would last six days before getting booted off this board?