'Shindig'
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
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!)
Monday, decide how to make decisions. Check.
and numbah!
I'm so completely against that it make me mad just thinking about it.
I just get giddy anticipating the amount of discussion it would take to actually pick who would be the Budmen, or Budpersons, and then the further discussion it would take in order to decide their duties.
We all would have carpal tunnel before we finished.
Let me guess...Cari is our newest registered user.
Something to put on the agenda, after we write the Buffistian Rules of Order, is to figure out how we feel about posts from unfamiliar posters and what our definition of unfamiliar might be.
Posts from unfamiliar posters, or announcements from unfamiliar posters?
As far as I can tell, it's well within the boundaries of a Sunnydale Press announcement, and hell, putting it there means the poster was paying attention to what goes where. Cari could have been lurking since TT, for all we know.
I did appreciate the repeated plea not to respond on-thread. And it's a reasonable enough thing to suppose we'd have interest in.
IJS.
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.
I didn't think they were chosen as being "above the rest of us" or whatever, but I did think they were basially the people who had built the site (which does make them gods and goddesses, of course). Thanks for explaining the reasoning.