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.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 18, 2003 8:23:38 am PST #4629 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
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.
PaulJ - Feb 18, 2003 8:25:52 am PST #4632 of 10001
It's complicated, living in a global community...
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 18, 2003 8:27:26 am PST #4633 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
No, we don't whitefont for UnAmericans. If they go into NAFDA threads, they know it's at their own risk.
I'm getting muddled. I mean in non-NAFDA threads, don't I? Anyway, in threads for people there is whitefonting for one reason, and in threads for another lot of people there is whitefonting for another reason and it's all very confusing.
Wolfram - Feb 18, 2003 8:29:51 am PST #4634 of 10001
Visilurking
It's past the vote deadline for the movies thread -- could a Stompy create it? The majority vote-getter is "Buffista Movies 1: Who Doesn't Love Denzel?"
Personally I was hoping for Monkey, but LJ's right.
Also, does WUTW mean Friday night, Saturday, or Sunday?
amych - Feb 18, 2003 8:30:06 am PST #4635 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm getting muddled. I mean in non-NAFDA threads, don't I? Anyway, in threads for people there is whitefonting for one reason, and in threads for another lot of people there is whitefonting for another reason and it's all very confusing.
Mebbe so. The current discussion is of the NAFDA-thread whitefonting for the tape-delayed.
There should be no spoilery discussion in the non-NAFDA threads. Period. Stuff that gets whitefonted there is traditionally things like character names said in passing, but if there's real discussion of plot points, episode analysis, and so on, it belongs somewhere else.
PaulJ - Feb 18, 2003 8:31:23 am PST #4636 of 10001
I suppose that whitefonting in non-NAFDA threads instead of banning is because it would be too much to ask people to not mention at all the current seasons of the shows, specially in a zone as freewheeling as Natter.
Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 8:32:09 am PST #4637 of 10001
Up with the sun
Personally I was hoping for Monkey, but LJ's right.
Heh. I wanted the "no romance. or men. or hobbits," cos I thought it was really funny. We were thwarted, Wolfram.
Angus G - Feb 18, 2003 8:35:00 am PST #4638 of 10001
Roguish Laird
We'll just have to fill up the thread very quickly so we get to have our preferred title for the second thread.
What about top ten lists, one post per film?