I did not realize that.
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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
Anathema - Feb 18, 2003 8:07:49 am PST #4622 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero
Anathema - Feb 18, 2003 8:11:33 am PST #4623 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero
When do people overseas get the show?
Angus G - Feb 18, 2003 8:11:34 am PST #4624 of 10001
Roguish Laird
Thanks for fixing it Schmoker.
(I personally had already been spoilt on that particular issue by an Australian newspaper! Bastards. Although apart from that and one other thing that I read in whitefont in a moment of madness, I'm amazingly unspoilt for the coming season.)
Angus G - Feb 18, 2003 8:13:28 am PST #4625 of 10001
Roguish Laird
Schmoker, Australians have just seen Episode 2 of Buffy Season 7, and we'll get Ep. 2 of Angel S4 tomorrow. The rule in threads that are not marked "NAFDA"--ie this thread, Natter, etc.--is that an episode is fair game after Australia has seen it.
Anathema - Feb 18, 2003 8:18:15 am PST #4626 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero
I see now. But I'm still a little confused. If you don't get either show until months later, how does whitefonting Angel in Buffy, and vice-versa, help? Because we aren't whitefonting Buffy in Buffy, nor Angel in Angel, so if you go in there you are spoiled anyway. So what does it matter?
PaulJ - Feb 18, 2003 8:20:17 am PST #4627 of 10001
"Buffy" and "Angel" are NAFDA threads, and are marked as such in the front page. Which means that there are North American matters being discussed in them, so non-americans who enter there do so at their own risk.
Of course, there are a number of non-americans who get the eps. through hideous copyright-infringing technologies and post there regularly.
§ ita § - Feb 18, 2003 8:21:51 am PST #4628 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
White fonting is for North Americans who may be delayed in one show but not on the others, not for UnAmericans.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 18, 2003 8:23:38 am PST #4629 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Two different groups of people. One lot of white fonting (in NAFDA threads) is for Unamericans, the other lot is for Americans on tape delay.
Edit: majorly x-posty.
Steph L. - Feb 18, 2003 8:24:37 am PST #4630 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
One lot of white fonting (in NAFDA threads) is for Unamericans
No, we don't whitefont for UnAmericans. If they go into NAFDA threads, they know it's at their own risk.
Angus G - Feb 18, 2003 8:25:23 am PST #4631 of 10001
Roguish Laird
If you don't get either show until months later, how does whitefonting Angel in Buffy, and vice-versa, help?
That specific policy is not to help Unamericans, it's to help Americans who have seen one show but not the other.
t sigh It's all a bit confusing isn't it. God knows how I'd remember it all if I was a newbie.
t edit Incidentally, "NAFDA" stands for "North American Free Discussion Area." Except even freedom has its limits, as North Americans have unfortunately been learning lately.