Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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
And you will note I have thus far refrained from calling anyone Madame Mao. So there.
You know, I was going to let this go, but really: Do you have a problem with someone in particular? And do you want to share who it is? Because snidely oblique comments like this really don't help any.
Huh. Apparently, I post more frequently and am more verbose with my new posting name.
But a LOT of other people have weighed in as well, which I think is more important.
Agreed. I was pleasantly surprised that 80 people had participated.
You know, I was going to let this go, but really: Do you have a problem with someone in particular? And do you want to share who it is? Because snidely oblique comments like this really don't help any.
No, and it wasn't a snidely oblique comment, nor intended as one. Unless you take John's OBVIOUSLY DIRECTED AT ME comment seriously. Which I didn't.
Next time, I shall endevour to insert a :P when sticking my tongue out at someone.
See, people mock the emoticons, but I think they have their uses.
Edit: Can someone come up with an emoticon that says "You need a serial comma there"?
See, people mock the emoticons, but I think they have their uses.
True, dat.
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Hmmm... Maybe not.
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voting being first mooted by Jesse
Um, what's that mean?
Sorry Jesse, I realise now that looks a bit weird.
What I mean to say was that I took my starting point from a more or less arbitrary point, but it was the point at which you said "I don't mind appearing authoritarian myself: I propose such-and-such".
That wasn't the point voting came up, of course, but it was the point voting started to be discussed in detail and here as opposed to WX.
Update: my arbitrary starting point for the above stats was Jesse "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Feb 24, 2003 9:54:26 am EST -- and my equally abitrary end point was DavidS "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Mar 6, 2003 12:10:47 pm EST -- I hope that makes sense to people.
But I read the whole thing, all 1908 posts, twice over.
More stats, I hear you cry?
Total words: 137,114
Gangs of Arbitrary Number:
Someone should be asking "did you screen out taglines?" I did. Then I noticed that Sophia and some others didn't have taglines. Freaks. So I'd been ignoring the first lines of their posts, so I had to do it again.
Percentages and breakpoints derived from putting the above into Excel.