Hate the summaries. I almost never notice my post numbers, and furthermore don't especially relish being given assignments in a place I come for fun.
Also, I'm with ita on not really wanting to be summarized either.
Willow: It feels like we're going around in circles. Xander: Our circles are going around in circles. We got dizzy circles here.
'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
amych - Oct 11, 2002 7:52:56 am PDT #470 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2002 7:55:32 am PDT #471 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I understand where you're coming from on trying to ease this, Hec, but really, it's up to an individual to work out how and how much of any thread they can handle. There are people who are intimidated by the volume in the show threads too. What do we do then? There's a million ways to handle it, and there will be no pop quiz at the end.
So you miss stuff. It'll be okay.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2002 7:57:54 am PDT #472 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah. I hate to say it, but I'd be hopeless at summarizing. Someone asked me the other day what was going on in Natter, and my response was basically, "Uh...I dunno. Stuff?"
And I agree that when people have asked for a summary, it's been provided. We don't need a whole institutionalized thing. It's not like Natter is, you know, important.
Sue - Oct 11, 2002 7:57:54 am PDT #473 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I think that it's okay to miss stuff is inherent in Natter. That's why it's called Natter, and not Terribly Important Things You Need to Know.
billytea - Oct 11, 2002 8:01:16 am PDT #474 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I insist on large batches of grumpy East Coasters backing you up before I give up on this entertaining idea.
I'm on the East Coast, I'm grumpy thanks to lack of sleep (seriously. You have no idea.), and I'm willing to back them up. I mean, what if the Companion of the moment skipped and skimmed like a flat rock across the still waters of the Murray to get there? (...This picture doesn't make me any happier to be at work.) What if their windows of opportunity for the posting are tiny things? What if I happen to numberslut at 2 in the morning, and all the summary you get is "Phwooaargh"?
Fraught. I should definitely be putting that into a sentence about now, but again with the sleep deprivation. Still, fraught. Oh, and Phwooaargh.
Yeah.
Jess M. - Oct 11, 2002 8:10:23 am PDT #475 of 10001
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
standing in the no summary corner
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2002 8:48:30 am PDT #476 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I like it when *other* people summarize, but I can't do it well. Cause I can't remember the last 10 posts, let alone 100.
Theodosia - Oct 11, 2002 9:17:19 am PDT #477 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"
Not complaining -- just highly amused that my link to Rebecca's post of John's update report got moved to Beep Me, so that it's a relocated link to a link to a posting that contains a letter, which seems like quite a lot of layers of meta.
Michele T. - Oct 11, 2002 9:21:10 am PDT #478 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
why it's called Natter, and not Terribly Important Things You Need to Know.
Snerk. And, wrod.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2002 9:34:31 am PDT #479 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Theo, I'm trying to maintain the distinction between beep and press -- personal news goes in beep me, but I didn't want it to look like linking it was *my* idea, so credit where credit is due.