You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone.

Giles ,'Touched'


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 28, 2002 3:19:10 pm PST #641 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

FYI: Out of 339 users that signed up, 215 have posted, and 14 never managed to validate.


bon bon - Oct 28, 2002 3:21:48 pm PST #642 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

How do you know who hasn't posted? (unless it's just yer general celestial omniscience)


§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 3:23:00 pm PST #643 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Every post has a user-id associated, so I ran a list of the unique ids.

That and sheer heavenly knowledge.


Dana - Oct 28, 2002 3:26:44 pm PST #644 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

339? Wow.


Rob - Oct 28, 2002 3:29:59 pm PST #645 of 10001

Having 63% of registered users posting is impressive, too.


DXMachina - Oct 28, 2002 4:37:49 pm PST #646 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

339? Wow.

There are some duplicates among those 339. We don't have 339 unique users, although we probably have more than 300.


§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 4:44:26 pm PST #647 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You think as many as 39 are dupes? I can spot a few (a certain Lt stands out), but I think that's on the high side.

Oh, and it's 13 unvalidated -- one deactivated for abuse.

And 1 admin, natch.


DXMachina - Oct 28, 2002 5:00:55 pm PST #648 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

No, I don't think it's as high as 39, but there are some obvious duplicates, and there are also some that you wonder about, where the only difference is the addition of an initial.

How many of the failed registrations are AOL or Hotmail?


§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 5:02:51 pm PST #649 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

5 Hotmail, 1 AOL. It's hard to say if they just ceased to care, since everyone who contacted admins had their status cleared up. I do recognize a few names there.


DXMachina - Oct 28, 2002 5:14:13 pm PST #650 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Another question. I saw this message in the admin box,

"NameDisguised is having problems becoming a Buffista"

but it wasn't very informative to me. What should I do if I see more of these? Leave them for you?