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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


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!


Nilly - Feb 24, 2003 7:02:57 am PST #5010 of 10001
Swouncing

Thanks, Sophia.

That's all the input I have for the meantime, since I'm not caught up yet.


juliana - Feb 24, 2003 7:46:22 am PST #5011 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

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.

Sophia, I would suggest keeping the things that appear to be non-issues, but put a comment next to them to the effect of "This has been discussed and seems to be a non-issue, however, since not everyone was at WX, we wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of it."

Or something that sounds less authoritarian.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 24, 2003 7:50:50 am PST #5012 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

That is a good idea, juliana, thanks!


Jesse - Feb 24, 2003 7:54:26 am PST #5013 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Me, I don't mind sounding authoritarian.

I even have the beginning of a proposal for decision-making! Let's set up votes@buffistas.org, and people can email their votes there. If we're trying to decide on Proposal A, anyone who wants can just email with their response, and someone can tally. I'd be willing to tally much of the time, but can't always promise promptness. And if People put a brief description of the proposal and their vote in the subject line, it would be pretty darn easy to tally. Give it 48 hours for voting, with an announcement in Press, and then close it.

I think this would allow anyone who wants to to vote (unlike Mr. Poll), while keeping the votes out of this thread and in one place.

Thoughts?