Yikes, it is soon. I can take Bitches, Natter and Previously.
Of course, more if needed.
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
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
Laura - Feb 25, 2003 9:48:43 pm PST #5549 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 25, 2003 9:49:37 pm PST #5550 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thanks Laura!
meara - Feb 25, 2003 9:51:52 pm PST #5551 of 10001
Wow, Jon's form looks great! I'll look forward to voting, soonish!
Trudy Booth - Feb 25, 2003 9:57:06 pm PST #5552 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
OK, am I the only person besidse Liese who isn't sure why consensus has been largely unacceptable? Are there specific incidents I'm unaware of? A whole bunch of them?
DavidS - Feb 25, 2003 9:57:18 pm PST #5553 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I can put the APB in Spoilers, and both spoiler light threads.
Should I do that now?
Sophia Brooks - Feb 25, 2003 9:59:45 pm PST #5554 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
That would be great David!
Trudy-- I can answer with my opinion in about 2 seconds when I am done posting!
DavidS - Feb 25, 2003 10:00:01 pm PST #5555 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Have you followed the whole discussion Trudy?
The problems with consensus have been: whoever happens to be in the thread at the time forms a consensus. The big problem was the movie thread. Two times it was raised, discussed and dismissed. On the third time, the people who raised it all happened to be in agreement and so the thread went forward. There is some sense that these consensus type decisions are really not expresssing the majority viewpoint and have become arbitrary.
Another example, is the continued raising of the issue of a Politics thread. There is no process currently in place to consider an issue, discuss it, decide on it and put aside. It got to be very wearying returning to the same issues and hashing them out again.
Those are two quick examples.
Hil R. - Feb 25, 2003 10:00:26 pm PST #5556 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, am I the only person besidse Liese who isn't sure why consensus has been largely unacceptable?
I think that people have been complaining that what looks like consensus is really just a bunch of people, but by no means everybody, agreeing on something at the same time, so that it's just whoever's on the board then who determines the "consensus." I don't know what the specific examples are, though.
DavidS - Feb 25, 2003 10:05:26 pm PST #5557 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've posted the APB in Spoilers, and Buffy and Angel Light Spoilers.
Laura - Feb 25, 2003 10:11:00 pm PST #5558 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Did post in Bitches, Natter, and Previously.
Trudy - I don't think that many of us have been unhappy with consensus; I thought it worked. The more structured discussion and voting method just makes for a more focusey way of dealing with decisions. The comfort of structure.