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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


Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 12:51:10 pm PST #4721 of 10001
Up with the sun

Do you want no white font at all then?

I want no white font for anything except major plot details, and I want those things whitefonted until a film comes out on video.

And I want a diet coke.


Laura - Feb 18, 2003 12:52:18 pm PST #4722 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

How about, whitefont until two weeks after wide release for all comments, and until two weeks after video release for major spoilers?

I like that plan quite a lot. It is the major spoilers that concern me. Also, count me as one who feels that whitefont is just not a big deal.


Burrell - Feb 18, 2003 12:57:01 pm PST #4723 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

How about, whitefont until two weeks after wide release for all comments, and until two weeks after video release for major spoilers?

What do you mean by "all comments"? Does, "Joe Blow's performance blew me away" need to be whitefonted? That seems unnecessary to me. I do agree major spoilers should be white fonted until video.

Question: where does quotation of individual lines fall?


Jessica - Feb 18, 2003 1:00:29 pm PST #4724 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

at do you mean by "all comments"? Does, "Joe Blow's performance blew me away" need to be whitefonted?

Just plot-related comments, I think. So saying "Wow, Brad Pitt can actually act in this!" would be okay, but "Brad Pitt was amazing in Paul Newman's death scene" would need whitefont.


Burrell - Feb 18, 2003 1:01:30 pm PST #4725 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Thanks for the clarification.


Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 1:03:00 pm PST #4726 of 10001
Up with the sun

Jessica, it really sounds like we're on the same page with this, because I completely agree with you now that you've clarified.


Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 1:03:03 pm PST #4727 of 10001
Up with the sun

jengod - Feb 18, 2003 1:11:54 pm PST #4728 of 10001

Here's a wacky proposition: Let's not write the rules for a thread we don't have yet. Let's open Movies. And when we hit post 1000 or some other designated number or date, let's pull together our collected gribes and see where we stand.

In fact, I say we open the Movies thread soonish, and bureaucratize it after the Oscars.


Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 1:12:56 pm PST #4729 of 10001
Up with the sun

I would be all for that, Jen. And don't you have the power to Make It So?

t steels self for lecture about how Stompies Are Not Moderators, just posters with extra toys.


jengod - Feb 18, 2003 1:15:34 pm PST #4730 of 10001

<blinks, and wonders if the mention of extra toys as an invitation to tell everybody that BF bought self fur-lined handcuffs for Valentine's Day>