Angel: How're you feeling? Faith: Like I did mushrooms and got eaten by a bear.

'A Hole in the World'


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


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?


§ ita § - Jan 19, 2003 10:35:45 am PST #3104 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Almost 700 registered, and two boots, for the record.


Jon B. - Jan 19, 2003 10:37:08 am PST #3105 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

even a little disturbing

No more disturbing than the fact that I can enjoy watching a TV character get blown away, but IRL I'm adamently opposed to the death penalty.

Fiction. Reality. Fiction. Reality. t /makes-hands-out-palms-up-scales-motion


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 19, 2003 10:53:23 am PST #3106 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

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?

... Schmoker, is that a chip I see on your shoulder?

IJS. I find the death, for example, of a loved one occasionally quite interesting and useful as a fictional device for tension. That doesn't mean I'm going to go off my sister because my life's too boring.


Anathema - Jan 19, 2003 11:32:09 am PST #3107 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero

That doesn't mean I'm going to go off my sister because my life's too boring.

Well you are obviously just no fun then.


Anathema - Jan 19, 2003 11:41:43 am PST #3108 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero

And you don't think that equating killing your sister with having your feelings easily bruised might be a tad apples and oranges?

Not a chip. Not a fight. I'm just curious what people think. I'll act appropriately to stay on the site, but I do think that in our society their is a tendency now to let the minority rule, which kind of scares me. One person sues McDonalds for being a fat ass, so now McDonald's fries suck. That type of thing.

One person out of 600 gets offended, so speech is limited to accomodate the one over the many. That type of thing.