The technology's there.
The replacement name isn't.
Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.
'Bushwhacked'
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 § - Jan 21, 2003 1:19:58 pm PST #3474 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Connie Neil - Jan 21, 2003 1:26:42 pm PST #3475 of 10001
brillig
Really? Threadsuck is up and running?
Lyra Jane - Jan 21, 2003 1:26:51 pm PST #3476 of 10001
Up with the sun
Why did we decide against "download"?
John H - Jan 21, 2003 1:27:55 pm PST #3477 of 10001
The only problem I had with "Threadsucking" was finding it.
It's tucked under the title of the thread.
Jesse - Jan 21, 2003 1:28:16 pm PST #3478 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah. What's wrong with "Download thread"? The interface is so sweet that clicking on it by accident isn't a disaster.
Liese S. - Jan 21, 2003 1:28:21 pm PST #3479 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
(Btw, apologies for derailing threadsuck into here. Name discussion, and rightly so, is back in BBaBB.)
Connie Neil - Jan 21, 2003 1:54:40 pm PST #3480 of 10001
brillig
Ah ha! That's where it is! Now if my dial-up connection at home doesn't crap out.
Burrell - Jan 21, 2003 2:02:40 pm PST #3481 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
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.
billytea - Jan 21, 2003 2:09:07 pm PST #3482 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.
The point of the filter is to silently shuffle someone in there so they don't get your blood pressure roiling.
Agreed. We could add 'discreet, for your protection', but for the persistent image of a woman on Prozac running along a beach somewhere.
Steph L. - Jan 21, 2003 2:11:07 pm PST #3483 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Steph, what's this extra section you said was missing?
I did? I think you have me confused with another witty and sexy Buffista.