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
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:
- 50% of the posts came from nine posters (at Hec's name above) according to my stats
- 75% came from 20 posters (see Rebecca Lizard and above)
- 90% came from 36 posters (Aimeé and above) and
- 99% came from the top 67 Bureacratistas (KevinK and above)
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.
Gee, I never came in 22nd in the porn counts. I think I need to change my ways.
You're amazing, John.
Next time, I shall endevour to insert a :P when sticking my tongue out at someone.
Or just, you know, make it clear at whom you are sticking your tongue out. Or something. OK.
Honestly, all Go14 jokes aside, by my count there were 37 people with at least 10 posts on the subject. And more than half of those who turned out to vote had at least
something
to say. That's not so bad, really.
Or just, you know, make it clear at whom you are sticking your tongue out. Or something. OK.
Honestly, I thought the "so there." was enough to mark it as tongue-in-cheek. Perhaps adding a neener.
I knew what, and who, he meant. But I'd just counted down to find out my position on the list (13) so I knew where Plei was.
(Also, feeling a little pissy at being given the old talking-to when John gets a free pass.)
(Just saying.)
(If you want honesty and a lack of obfuscation.)
I'm sorry, Plei, I just felt like you were having a lot of issues with the way things are going, and I really was afraid you were talking about someone in particular, but didn't know who it was, and didn't want it to be me, is all. And, uh, John was busting on you, so if anyone was going to tell him off about it, it could have been you, no?
Yeah, sorry, but what did I get a free pass for?
And, uh, John was busting on you, so if anyone was going to tell him off about it, it could have been you, no?
Or not. I don't know, I mean, when I've felt people have maybe gone a little past pleasant with others in the past, I've spoken up.
Honestly, I don't like that the chart was posted. It seemed a little.. I don't know, it seemed possibley divisive to me to do so, at this point, when things had mostly calmed down. And I really was trying to be okay with the snide aside about myself, but I guess I'm really not. I mean, looking at numbers tells you nothing about content. It just tells you X people have posted X time, but not the topic, which can range from (and in that span did) "white font ASAP!" or "All threads should be Monkey!" to "I'm not comfortable here, forget it to "I think that we should use system X with a subset of system y and perhaps a smidge of system D". I don't really want a breakdown of that, either, in case anyone was planning to do so.
It just seemed kind of counterproductive to even put it up.
