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.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
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
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
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!
Anathema - Feb 23, 2003 8:15:59 pm PST #5003 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero
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.
jengod - Feb 23, 2003 9:56:26 pm PST #5004 of 10001
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.
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2003 10:01:38 pm PST #5005 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
brenda m - Feb 23, 2003 10:05:34 pm PST #5006 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
jengod - Feb 23, 2003 10:14:35 pm PST #5007 of 10001
IJS.
Lyra Jane - Feb 24, 2003 6:38:19 am PST #5008 of 10001
Up with the sun
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.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 24, 2003 6:46:55 am PST #5009 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
For those of you waiting with baited breath to discuss "how we make decision":
I am planning on posting my summary of the idea on WX closer to work time for the Pacific zones.
I was thinking about waiting to post the list I created from our discussion of all the different issues/changes until after we decide this, because I think that will just encourage us to talk about that rather than the matter at hand.
I also think there are things we can just strike off that list due to lack of interest, but I just don't want to do on my own. On the other hand, some of those things (whuffie) seem to generate very strong reactions, so if we aren't thinking of doing them, I'd rather not discuss.
Input or objections? (if I don't respond it is because I am on my way to work.
Also, if we want to put this off longer, I don't care personally. I just volunteered to become keeper of a logical list-- I don't want to force anyone into anything!