The east coasters could continue to watch and post in the regular thread. Then the west coasters could watch and post in their thread. When they were finished watching, they would have to stop posting in that thread and move over to Buffy regular, or we would risk having completely segregated boards.
Bunnies frighten me.
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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
Sophia Brooks - Oct 14, 2002 11:53:12 am PDT #499 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Nutty - Oct 14, 2002 11:58:41 am PDT #500 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yeah, and I think that a watch-and-post thread, that is not also used for discussion, would look really silly, like so:
Guh!
BWAH!
WESLEY!!!
I cannot believe he just said that!
OMG!!
What did he say?
"Got a sweet fang, have we"? sure to be xposty.
"Got a sweet fang?"
"Got a sweet fang have we?" t edit xpost!
Cool!
...and so on. Sort of dadaist, but not altogether substantial.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 14, 2002 12:04:56 pm PDT #501 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Maybe we east coasters should give up watch and post for a week or two for the west coasters. Then, of course we wouldn't really be able to do any discussion without waiting until the middle of the night, so that would really suck.
Laura - Oct 14, 2002 12:13:40 pm PDT #502 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Left coasters should either move or subscribe to EST satellite feed. OK, so not the best idea. Or we could tape and not watch until 11 - sure, I'll promise to do that sometime. Hee.
In other words, I got nothin' in the way of good suggestions for this.
Burrell - Oct 14, 2002 12:31:19 pm PDT #503 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
As a west coast gal, I like the idea of watch & post in theory, but it seems too unweildy.
Theodosia - Oct 14, 2002 12:33:14 pm PDT #504 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"
Could the West Coasters set up a regular IRC chat that would allow them to watch & post, and then archive that into a web page?
Jesse - Oct 14, 2002 12:34:31 pm PDT #505 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Last night msbelle and I watched Angel on tape together at 10 and chatted on AIM about it. People could do that, too.
DXMachina - Oct 14, 2002 12:43:47 pm PDT #506 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Could the West Coasters set up a regular IRC chat that would allow them to watch & post, and then archive that into a web page?
Instead of this, they could go over to the NAFDA Diaspora thread over at peoples forum, or we could reopen the WX NAFDA forum for west coast post-n-watch parties.
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2002 12:47:25 pm PDT #507 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think there's any win (excuse my language, I'm posting from a meeting) to outsourcing the thread. If there will be a separate one, it might as well be here.
We want to have minimal other logins required to play.
Noumenon - Oct 14, 2002 12:47:57 pm PDT #508 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
One issue is there'd have to be a couple of watch-n-post threads, right? One for eastern and central, one for pacific.
Not at all. No one would read the earlier watch-n-posts, because they're ephemeral and kinda boring.
Yeah, and I think that a watch-and-post thread, that is not also used for discussion, would look really silly, like so... Sort of dadaist, but not altogether substantial.
That is exactly why watch-n-post doesn't belong in the main thread.