Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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
Not at the current membership level.
Please see above re: Betsy's post. We aren't deciding how much we're willing to invest in road maintenance or the tourist advertising budget, and the gazillions of posts on policy are making my eyes bleed. If we get more hierarchal than "Hey, would a Stompy close a tag?", a lot of people are going to go elsewhere for their fun.
Because one of the one things we have consistently resisted is the idea of having "special" community members.
Okay I totally get this. What I'm trying to do is have the membership imbue a few members with special dispensation to bitch, moan, harangue, argue, scream, wail, and stomp on behalf of the rest of us. That's the limit of power. No special status, no front row seats, no pedestals, and no power to moderate, censor, ban, or otherwise effect the goings ons in the threads. These would just be the guys who hammered out the details. Which, in my opinion, really does go on now when it comes to everything else relating to the board. We could just make it official, and then stop taking everything so seriously.
Hello Wolfram. How's the wife? I haven't posted with you since you mentioned you're expecting a bundle of joy in June.
Hey Deena. Yeah, we haven't crossed paths much. The wife's doing well, thanks for asking. How's your little one?
Please.
The membership levels? Not that many more regular posters than at WX. We already had 300 or so before the mass immigration here, and most of the new regs are lurkers. Old people slide off, new people slide on.
t skipping and skimming and catching the hell up
The 'old' system had a few small flaws and some occasional disappointments.
Eventually, I became one of the people making beer runs.
This might lighten the mood a bit. Or piss people off more.
I have to say that, despite having voted for voting, I have no decided to resuccitate my inner anarchist.
As such, with all due respect to your honorable ideas wolfram, I cannot support any notion of representation. I'm already starting to think that are previous anarchy was preferable to even the tiny modicum of democracy we've started here.
But this is just my $0.02, other Buffistas agreeing with me notwithstanding.
In many of the threads I visit, people are saying "What's going on in Bureaucracy? I'm afraid to look." And people are replying "You really don't want to know."
This is a really bad sign.
I honestly think that the solution is not to find better ways to make decisions more efficiently. The solution is to stop picking at the scab for awhile.
What I'm trying to do is have the membership imbue a few members with special dispensation
See that, right there? Noooooo. We have Stompies out of necessity, because once we moved to WX, we needed an admin or two to create threads and fix things. That's it. That's all.
What I'm trying to do is have the membership imbue a few members with special dispensation to bitch, moan, harangue, argue, scream, wail, and stomp on behalf of the rest of us.
Wolfram, I know what you're asking for. I understand your proposition.
I just disagree with it. I have heard your argument and I do not find it persuasive. Saying it again is not going to persuade me.
What I'm trying to do is have the membership imbue a few members with special dispensation to bitch, moan, harangue, argue, scream, wail, and stomp on behalf of the rest of us.
We all have that power already, to an extent. Except for the screaming and wailing. It bothers us.