You will. On Monday. When I post "the list"!
BWAH-HA-HA-HA!
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
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 - Feb 23, 2003 6:22:49 pm PST #4993 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Jesse - Feb 23, 2003 6:26:58 pm PST #4994 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Snerk, Wolfram.
Wolfram - Feb 23, 2003 6:35:47 pm PST #4995 of 10001
Visilurking
I just love the logistical circularities. And I'm a smartass.
Gandalfe - Feb 23, 2003 6:58:25 pm PST #4996 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
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.
Michele T. - Feb 23, 2003 7:11:17 pm PST #4997 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
What all started with the moderators? Mary Beth did a great job of a thankless position.
Gandalfe - Feb 23, 2003 7:17:19 pm PST #4998 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
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.
Lyra Jane - Feb 23, 2003 7:24:33 pm PST #4999 of 10001
Up with the sun
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.
Jessica - Feb 23, 2003 7:50:03 pm PST #5000 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 23, 2003 7:57:32 pm PST #5001 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
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!)
Laura - Feb 23, 2003 8:00:01 pm PST #5002 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Monday, decide how to make decisions. Check.
and numbah!