Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.

'Bring On The Night'


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


P.M. Marc - Mar 04, 2003 2:08:29 pm PST #6702 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

And I will say there has been at least as much endless blabbing from the keep it simple crowd as from everyone else. It seems that some of this is what ita proposed as a thread title - "everybody shut up and agree with me".

Yeah. Because we've finally snapped. No, seriously. At least for me.

FOURTEEN PEOPLE. FOURTEEN.

And, FWIW, I was #15. I asked. But I hear there was a large gap between 14 and 15 in terms of numbers.


Jessica - Mar 04, 2003 2:08:49 pm PST #6703 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

See Kat's posts before, with which I heartily agreed. There are things too sensitive to mention? For who? That way lies the Tyranny of the Easily Upset.

Then maybe you need to clarify what you meant by "I don't think you want me to." Because I read it as "the examples I have are too controversial to even bring up."


Jesse - Mar 04, 2003 2:09:11 pm PST #6704 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, I can't come up with a definition of "cool kids" or whatever that only includes a group of people who all agree with each other. I mean, really.


bitterchick - Mar 04, 2003 2:09:39 pm PST #6705 of 10001

"let's all agree with what the cool kids"

Wow. I find that incredibly insulting. And now I'm walking away.


Lyra Jane - Mar 04, 2003 2:10:31 pm PST #6706 of 10001
Up with the sun

Yeah. Because we've finally snapped. No, seriously. At least for me.
FOURTEEN PEOPLE. FOURTEEN.

Fourteen people what? In this thread, or on the board, or...?

I just need some context, sorry.


Jon B. - Mar 04, 2003 2:10:39 pm PST #6707 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

"Cool kids" was a poor choice of words (sorry, Gar), but I agree with his sentiment. I believe that the original proposal made a zillion posts ago to have four more questions that would settle the issues of Votor Turnout, number of seconds, etc., and to use preferential balloting just this once before we debated it to death (too late!), was simple. It's the endless meta-debate on the subject that's made it seem complicated.


John H - Mar 04, 2003 2:10:45 pm PST #6708 of 10001

I read it as "the examples I have are too controversial to even bring up."

That's exactly what I was saying.


Anathema - Mar 04, 2003 2:11:04 pm PST #6709 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero

I'm cool. But I live in Ohio and my house heats like big barn with open windows.

Hmm...maybe that's not what you meant.


Dana - Mar 04, 2003 2:11:42 pm PST #6710 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Fourteen people what? In this thread, or on the board, or...?

I just need some context, sorry.

DX did a threadsuck and counted, and 2/3rds of the 1500 posts on this issue have been posted by 14 people.


PaulJ - Mar 04, 2003 2:11:44 pm PST #6711 of 10001

Actually, as a relative newcomer, I consider all of those who were in favor of preferential voting as "cool kids". Or at least that's how I have them categorized in my mental Buffista who-is-who.