Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


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


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?


§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 5:16:27 pm PST #651 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah -- that's a troubleshooting issue for me.


DXMachina - Oct 28, 2002 5:18:02 pm PST #652 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Will do.


Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 7:40:30 pm PST #653 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

There's an admin mailbox? Should I be able to access it?


§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 8:23:22 pm PST #654 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's an admin mailbox? Should I be able to access it?

Yup. Yup. Did you not get the mailing list e-mails?


Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 8:29:41 pm PST #655 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Nope nope. I never got nothin'. Maybe because I was out of town when we went up and didn't become an admin until a week or two in.