Can we just chalk this up to misinterpretation and misunderstanding and on-edge-ness all around and continue to chill? I'm pro-chilling.
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'Chosen'
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
Jesse - Mar 12, 2003 6:07:33 pm PST #7326 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 12, 2003 6:08:24 pm PST #7327 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm for the chillin' with the Jesse.
John H - Mar 12, 2003 6:09:57 pm PST #7328 of 10001
I wish the stats hadn't been posted, because I felt we all were sort of getting over differences, but it was nice to see that more people articipated than I thought.
Again, I apologise to you and anyone else who felt that way.
I honestly never thought that it would be seen as divisive or negative. I find stats interesting, and I threadsucked the data because I've been looking through the whole episode, not just in terms of this issue, but in terms of how we actually work as a community, and how it sometimes breaks down.
Jesse - Mar 12, 2003 6:11:33 pm PST #7329 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I liked seeing it too, John. But I really don't mind being one of a very few people who is interested in spending a lot of time in this thread dealing with all this stuff.
John H - Mar 12, 2003 6:22:12 pm PST #7330 of 10001
I really don't mind being one of a very few people who is interested in spending a lot of time in this thread dealing with all this stuff.
Well exactly.
There's still a question at the back of my mind about why people's responses were so emotional. But I'll put that down to incipient autism for the moment.
brenda m - Mar 12, 2003 6:32:12 pm PST #7331 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
(Also, feeling a little pissy at being given the old talking-to when John gets a free pass.)
Somehow I missed the original post and thought it was John being called on the carpet.
FTR, I don't think anyone meant anything hurtful, nor did I take it that way. And as I said above, I thought the chart was interesting precisely because it demonstrated that there were considerably more people involving themselves in this discussion than the Gof14 remarks would suggest.
I'm glad we've finally called for a vote on most of the remaining issues, because we all really need a break.
Lee - Mar 12, 2003 6:32:20 pm PST #7332 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Going back to the thread name for Natter 10, which we may need tonight, I like Bitterchick's suggestion of X-treme natter: we are trying this at home.
Theodosia - Mar 12, 2003 6:51:58 pm PST #7333 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
From the randomosity that is my brain:
Natter: X Marks The Spork
Java cat - Mar 12, 2003 6:52:55 pm PST #7334 of 10001
Not javachik
Ooo, I like that.
Kat - Mar 12, 2003 7:01:51 pm PST #7335 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I love that Kat and I both had 22 posts, yet I had less than a 3rd of the wordiness. Go ecomony of words! Or possibly Kat's posts had actual content.
Nah. I'm just a blabber. I was so excited! It was all...Look Laura and I are matchy match! My posts are much more with the fluff than Laura, apparently.
But I really don't mind being one of a very few people who is interested in spending a lot of time in this thread dealing with all this stuff.
I liked it too. Cause this is the first time stats have come out and I'm not the biggest blabber in that area. Woo hoo.
I thought that I was in the dread Group of 14. And I, for one, am really offended by the comment. When I thought I was one of those people, it felt like the implication was, "YOU FREAKS who keep talking about X!" And it also felt really divisive as if to imply the 14 people who preceeded PMM on the previous stats were some cabal who worked as a borg mind to torture everyone else. In reality, I think the people who post a lot do so because they AREN'T in agreement. So they keep discussing until they find some places where they overlap. Which is cool, even if it is exhausting.