I suggest, if we are going to allow posting about one show in the other thread (I can see the arguments for either side), that we wait until the end of the week for each one, so that people who get the shows on different nights can catch up. So, no talking about that week's Buffy in the Angel thread until Sunday, and vice versa.
Eggs. The living legend needs eggs. Or maybe another milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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
Hil R. - Feb 17, 2003 10:25:49 pm PST #4577 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Kat - Feb 17, 2003 10:30:55 pm PST #4578 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Is whitefonting really that much of a pain in the ass to read or to write? I don't even mean that in a snarky way; I'm genuinely curious.
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2003 10:30:59 pm PST #4579 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat's ass is kinda cute, and speaks for me.
Thread proliferation creates more traffic, which creates larger demands both on poster attention and board resources. Selfishly, I don't want distracted posters, because people are going to choose to be in different places and overlap less. Professionally, I'm always nervous about the code. And there's the "we'll have to buy more bandwidth" issue too.
Jeff Mejia - Feb 17, 2003 10:32:02 pm PST #4580 of 10001
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
That sounds like a decent compromise, but maybe there may be some who want to reference the most recent episode of the other show in spoiler font during the grace period. How would that fit in?
Jon B. - Feb 17, 2003 10:35:21 pm PST #4581 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
can someone explain the Natter 9...Natter 9 joke to me?
"Revolution #9" by the Beatles. From the White Album. Perhaps their most experimental piece, it consists entirely of various tape loops, the most prominant being a voice repeating over and over "Number nine, number nine, number nine..."
Jeff Mejia - Feb 17, 2003 10:35:28 pm PST #4582 of 10001
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
Is whitefonting really that much of a pain in the ass to read or to write? I don't even mean that in a snarky way; I'm genuinely curious.
It's not so much that it's a pain in the ass to read or write, it's what happens when someone forgets to use spoiler font in a post, then we get other posts pointing out that spoiler font should be used, and then we get posts apologizing for the mistake, and so on and so on, so much so that the thread of conversation gets sidetracked a bit. At least IMHO.
Angus G - Feb 17, 2003 10:37:22 pm PST #4583 of 10001
Roguish Laird
I know it's a bit early, but I'd like to nominate a thread title:
"Good thinking, Natter 99."
Kat - Feb 17, 2003 10:38:50 pm PST #4584 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm pro-spoiler font because I am occasionally on tape delay as are other Buffistas.
And I guess because I also feel like we just talked about this and decided it a few weeks ago.
Theodosia - Feb 17, 2003 10:44:27 pm PST #4585 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Angus, if you can remember that long enough that when we get around to #99, I say we go for it.
Michele T. - Feb 17, 2003 10:54:17 pm PST #4586 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Kat, things have changed since a few weeks ago, in terms of what looks to be coming up ahead on the shows (speaking unspoiledly).
I'm really against a War thread, for all the reasons Jim and others have mentioned. But I'm pro-Get Smart references. And also a mailing list, which I think is the best of a bunch of bad options.