Natter 2 Good 2 B 4 Gotten! is up.
'Harm's Way'
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
Natter 1 is down.
Admins -- you will be seeing a posting box, but no one else.
Now we just have to work out where to put it.
And how to automate what I just did.
Added the slug to Natter.
Can we say what a "meara" post or "doing a meara" is in the FAQ?
I'd write a paragraph to submit here but I am tired, tired, tired. Plus I wasn't around when the term was coined.
Hec (who coined it for usage, IIRC) defined 'meara' in WX:
To meara: do a long catchup post in Natter interspersed with quotes.
It was Fred Pete who coined the term a day or two before Hec wrote the formal definition:
"Mearaing (also known as catching up on several topics) -- "
In the last couple days I've seen both ted r and Dai Watkins in Natter 2, which is good support for the "engage them with analysis and capture them in natter" theory. But I also saw Spidra concede to the thread speed and had Tick complain to me about hours of catching up even in the show threads. I told him about Nilly.
Maybe we need a whole section in the FAQ to deal with the various Natter strategies. In addition to mearaing, we could have an explanation of the John H Natter diet (what is it? Read Beep Me and COMM and the last 50 posts of Natter, I think.)
And "Did you skim? I think you skipped and skimmed."
This may be a dumb request, but would it be possible to add "How to make a link" to the other html tricks in the how-to section?