I don't think there's any win (excuse my language, I'm posting from a meeting) to outsourcing the thread. If there will be a separate one, it might as well be here.
We want to have minimal other logins required to play.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
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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
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2002 12:47:25 pm PDT #507 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Noumenon - Oct 14, 2002 12:47:57 pm PDT #508 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
One issue is there'd have to be a couple of watch-n-post threads, right? One for eastern and central, one for pacific.
Not at all. No one would read the earlier watch-n-posts, because they're ephemeral and kinda boring.
Yeah, and I think that a watch-and-post thread, that is not also used for discussion, would look really silly, like so... Sort of dadaist, but not altogether substantial.
That is exactly why watch-n-post doesn't belong in the main thread.
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2002 12:52:33 pm PDT #509 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No one would read the earlier watch-n-posts, because they're ephemeral and kinda boring.
Too blanket. I read them, and I am not bored by them.
Dunno about other folks, though.
Dana - Oct 14, 2002 1:00:29 pm PDT #510 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
That is exactly why watch-n-post doesn't belong in the main thread.
You say this as if it's obvious to everyone. I like it. And I'm someone who's on tape delay for both shows.
Nilly - Oct 14, 2002 1:01:59 pm PDT #511 of 10001
Swouncing
I read them, too. And I like them (the million-posts-in-a-row that screamed 'GILES!' last season, for example).
Then again, I'm the only-read-episodes-descriptions kind of spoiled, who gets the 'feel' of an episode from the boards, since I have to wait for a tape-fairy magic in order to actually watch anything. Obviously, I'm pretty alone in that, so I won't be surprised to find I'm in the minority in reading those posts, too.
Michele T. - Oct 14, 2002 1:03:36 pm PDT #512 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I enjoy reading them after the fact as well.
What's the problem, that West Coasters don't want to be spoiled by ongoing East Coaster discussion? Could white font work?
meara - Oct 14, 2002 1:04:35 pm PDT #513 of 10001
Yeah, I sometimes watch and post, as an East Coaster, but sometimes am tape delayed, but go back and read them anyway, cause it's interesting to see how and what people reacted to...
OTOH, I can see how I would want to watch-and-post as a west coaster, so I don't see why we couldn't have an extra thread--we have a Canadian thread, why not? Though I guess it would be two or THREE extra threads (Angel and Firefly too)? That might get excessive, hmmm....
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2002 1:06:23 pm PDT #514 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Could white font work?
I think that'd drive you Easties crazy, wouldn't it?
P.M. Marc - Oct 14, 2002 1:09:00 pm PDT #515 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
What's the problem, that West Coasters don't want to be spoiled by ongoing East Coaster discussion? Could white font work?
We're just grumpy 'cause we can't play, but I find I'm happy with watch, post, catch up.
So, you get all my unfiltered-unsorted what I thought commentary in a big lump.
I think we're fine as-is, myself.
And I love the watch n' post.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 14, 2002 1:45:35 pm PDT #516 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I usually watch and post, but I always go back and read it if I am on tape delay.
White font would drive me crazy, yes. Not so much to read, as I am in Opera, but to remember to do. Also, we might all still be talking WHILE the west coasters are watch and posting, which would be just weird.