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
With frequent use, there's not time to read all that into every use of what Victor said. Even emphasizing "What. Victor. Said." barely comes across stronger than just plain wrod.
I never agree with anything, so of course ways of saying "I agree" aren't me-appropriate content. That's OK. They're short. Other hand, I don't think this is the kind of stuff that gets old on its own calendar. People will always be saying "I agree," unless Angus can change the culture. (I see a lot of bold in COMM lately -- he has influence.)
This is a meta discussion. It can be in Bureaucracy, though it could be elsewhere.
Yahoo! Instant Messenger makes web mail beep. But I turned the beep off.
I've been thinking that the "Site etiquette" link on the left should go to the short-but-to-the-point version, with a link to the filky version.
I can't read the filk. I have no idea what the tune of Officer Krupke is, and I can't STAND trying to get the etiquette guidelines out of what looks like a big page of dialogue.
That's just me. As a filk, it's great. If I were a newbie, I'd go away.
Perhaps that's the point.
But the link to the plain version is
right there!
It's not like you have to read the filk to find it, or know some secret code. It's very readily available.
Although I'd be happy to see it described as for the "filk-challenged" rather than the "attention-span challenged."
I agree wholeheartedly with Jon's original suggestion -- the filk is cute, but there's no reason to make it in any way difficult, confusing, or off-putting for people to learn the rules, which should be the basic groundline of community participation. Jesse's point that the link to the plain version is "right there" works if you reverse the links as well -- that way, people who enjoy filk can read the filk version, and people who just want to know the rules can just read the rules.
I like the filk.
But I'm not actually here.
(Natter in Press needs Stomping.)
I've stomped the press natter. And will stomp my natter warning in five.
I like the filk too, (and I think it's terribly sad that Steph's never heard "Officer Krupke", or presumably, seen "West Side Story") but I would support reversing the two pages. Straight one with a link to filk rather than filk with a link to straight.
