Actually, Angus, I'm sorry if I implied that I thought you were serious! I figured we were on the same side!
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
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
Sophia Brooks - Mar 01, 2003 6:38:47 am PST #6067 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Cindy - Mar 01, 2003 6:42:25 am PST #6068 of 10001
Nobody
I understood that Angus, I just felt convicted and explainy wanted to note that it's an internet custom of sorts, in more polite societies.
Angus G - Mar 01, 2003 6:43:52 am PST #6069 of 10001
Roguish Laird
That's cool, Sophia, I just wanted to make it extra clear that, while I certainly hope to shame and goad others into changing their behaviour, I don't want to force them. t grin
DavidS - Mar 01, 2003 8:34:07 am PST #6070 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't mind if there's a little intra-cultural pressure to cut down on numberslutting, wrod-iness, or editorial notations. I brought up the whole "can I tag" thing because I thought it was superfluous. I didn't ask for a rule on it. Just tried to bend the culture a little bit around something that was a little bothersome to me. I certainly wouldn't mind if it was determined that it was uncool to numberslut, but I don't know if I could resist to grab a 10,000 either.
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 01, 2003 8:46:59 am PST #6071 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
I'm not talking about rules! I never have been.
Another thing the not-a-formal-rule worked for was the no-backchannel-talk in Bitches. I think that's comparable. It's not completely gone; but what happened was that some people said "This backchannel talk is proliferating and it's really irritating to me. Can we please stop?" and it's mostly kept in check now.
There's no formal rule; that would be ridiculous.
Hil R. - Mar 01, 2003 9:01:45 am PST #6072 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Another thing the not-a-formal-rule worked for was the no-backchannel-talk in Bitches. I think that's comparable. It's not completely gone; but what happened was that some people said "This backchannel talk is proliferating and it's really irritating to me. Can we please stop?" and it's mostly kept in check now.
Which is also an example of my point that the time and place to talk about it is when and where it's happening. Like this example, or like Betsy did with the swearing in Natter, or like something else that I just thought of but then forgot.
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 01, 2003 9:10:48 am PST #6073 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
t sulks
Someone else said it first. (And it happens in a lot of threads!)
Burrell - Mar 01, 2003 11:40:15 am PST #6074 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The problem with backchannel talk in another thread is very different in nature than numberslutting. Numberslutting is annoying, at least to RL (me, I don't mind it). Griping in another thread about a fellow poster is, on the other hand, actually rude. If you are going to backchannel, actually go BEHIND channels to do it.
P.M. Marc - Mar 01, 2003 12:30:34 pm PST #6075 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
I'm not certain this is the appropriate thread to be having that conversation
Edit: re-pet peeves, numberslutting, etc.
That said, I am also going to point out that backchannel does not equal griping about other poster. It just means talking off board.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2003 12:33:43 pm PST #6076 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think there are two issues -- using a thread as faux-backchannel, and referring repeatedly to backchannel while inthread.