I'm totally for having a separate political thread. Because then I can avoid it.
Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
'Shells'
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
lori - Sep 18, 2002 11:59:33 am PDT #44 of 10001
Typo Boy - Sep 18, 2002 12:01:10 pm PDT #45 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yup that's the point. Those who hate poltics can avoid it. Those who find politics of interest can hang out there. And if I end up there all by myself, we can always delete the thread. *g*
§ ita § - Sep 18, 2002 12:01:43 pm PDT #46 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We need to be sure that threads are created because of sufficient interest of people who are going to participate, not because of people who don't read that content in another thread, since that way lies madness. We'd have a gazillion (cat, LotR, Hugh Dillon) threads in a heartbeat.
Jessica - Sep 18, 2002 12:02:35 pm PDT #47 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
We'd have a gazillion (cat, LotR, Hugh Dillon) threads in a heartbeat.
I've been meaning to ask -- where's the cat/LotR/Hugh Dillon-lovers thread? Huh?
Typo Boy - Sep 18, 2002 12:02:41 pm PDT #48 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Hmm point. So who would be interested in a positive way in a politics thread?
Jen - Sep 18, 2002 12:08:36 pm PDT #49 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
And if I end up there all by myself, we can always delete the thread.
You wouldn't end up there alone, on one general condition that has nothing specifically to do with you: that there's an established and enforced agree-to-disagree, we're-here-to-learn, no-one-will-be-belittled-for-believing-what-they-do policy.
I detest political missionaries as much I detest religious ones, and nothing pisses me off more than someone implying that I'm dumb, so if the thread turns into a you're-wrong-and-I'm-right-and-this-is-why-you're-a-moron-for-not-thinking-the-way-I-do, I'll be outta there faster than the IMF issues privatization orders.
Typo Boy - Sep 18, 2002 12:23:51 pm PDT #50 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Jen, I think that is an important condition, Kind of help prevents pre-flaming too. (You know borderline stuff that is not quite a flame. )
jengod - Sep 18, 2002 12:45:52 pm PDT #51 of 10001
Morning sunshiners. Should I delete the links page at BraveNet (aka go.to/buffistalinks)? I kinda want to, just because I'm a inveterate thrower-out, like my mom, and because it's not used that much so it's slightly less essential as a backup.
Burrell - Sep 18, 2002 12:48:03 pm PDT #52 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My problem with a politics thread is that it isn't going to stop politics from arising in Natter. I guess when they do, someone can say, "let's take this to politics" at which point probably 2/3rds of the participants will stop participating.
On the full disclosure front, I would be highly unlikely to subscribe to another thread, esp a politics one. But that doesn't mean that I dislike it when a political discussion arises. So in other words, I'd be one of the 2/3rds that I think would stop debating once the subject moved to a more heated atmosphere.
§ ita § - Sep 18, 2002 12:48:10 pm PDT #53 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jengod, I'd delete it. It's not like it'll be staying current with this one.