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
I really feel very strongly that the first topic should be how we're going to make group decisions.
Concur. Let's see if we can come to agreement on voting (or not) and how that would work.
(Oh, and I agree we should agree on how we agree on things before we discuss any other issues. Or something like that.)
I think it's important that we all agree to come to some sort of decision on how these group decisions can be agreed to. If we can all agree to one method of coming to agreements we will find a lot less disagreement and a lot more mutually beneficial decision-making in the agreement process. I am happy with whatever everyone else agrees to if we can find a way to flesh that out.
Also, I have no idea what we are talking about.
You will. On Monday. When I post "the list"!
BWAH-HA-HA-HA!
I just love the logistical circularities. And I'm a smartass.
I have no idea, either, not doing the whole WX thing this weekend. However, I think that, with the possible exception of egregious things (physical threats, really) moderators are one of the worst things that can happen to a board. Look at Salon - it all started with the moderators.
What all started with the moderators? Mary Beth did a great job of a thankless position.
Yep, she did. Mary Beth was one of my favorite people there. But it was the start of them (Salon, that is) thinking of it as something to be policied rather than as a community.
Table Talk was moderated (lightly) from day one, I believe. And I never saw someone get in trouble there who wasn't asking for it -- but then, I wasn't in politics, either.
ISTM that ALL communities have moderation of some kind, either by consensus (like here) or as a formal position. The ones that don't fall apart pretty quickly.
But it was the start of them (Salon, that is) thinking of it as something to be policied rather than as a community.
I don't follow you. Salon's problems were financial, not bureaucratic.
Lyra, you may not have known that our Stompies pretty much were elected in a we-want-someone-for-each-timezone-so-new-Natters-can-always-be-created moment. They didn't volunteer as people who were in any way special or above the rest of us.
(Or something. I'm kind of mentally fuzzy right now. Right on, cold medicine!)
