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
Lyra Jane, thank you for your work - it's a lovely thing.
t nitpick
- In questions 1, 2 & 6, it should be "Becoming I"
- In the second question, may I suggest phrasing things a bit differently (for making the order of slayers as clear as possible), somehting along the lines of:
Kendra, who first appeard on "What's My Line, I" (S2) was called as a result of that death. When Kendra died on "Becoming I" (S2) Faith was called.
- Faith uses the phrase five-by-five in the first episode she appears in, "Faith, Hope and Trick".
I'm not even going to try to close the nitpick HTML-ing, I know it won't work.
Yay for threadsucking! But didn't we decide that that was a not-work-friendly name for it?
The technology's there.
The replacement name isn't.
Really? Threadsuck is up and running?
Why did we decide against "download"?
The only problem I had with "Threadsucking" was
finding
it.
It's tucked under the title of the thread.
Yeah. What's wrong with "Download thread"? The interface is so sweet that clicking on it by accident isn't a disaster.
(Btw, apologies for derailing threadsuck into here. Name discussion, and rightly so, is back in BBaBB.)
Ah ha! That's where it is! Now if my dial-up connection at home doesn't crap out.
2) If we do build a user filter, can we please consider NOT naming it marcie? I am not at all comfortable with applying the connotations from the show episode to our actions here. Are we trying to painfully alienate and ignore someone to the point of invisibility? Do we want filtered users to feel like Marcie? I don't think so, I think we're talking more about our personal comfort levels. So perhaps could we find a better name? I wasn't in on the original discussion, so apologies for not hitting the topic then.
I don't care so much about the name, I just wanted to point out that there are both polite and rude ways to use such a filter. If you tell someone you've Marcied them, that's rude--I'd even say it's bating someone & likely to get some of us pissed off (including me). The point of the filter is to silently shuffle someone in there so they don't get your blood pressure roiling.
