Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.

'Safe'


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


Jon B. - Mar 18, 2003 8:10:44 am PST #7812 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I think the problem (which I only just realized) is that I didn't allow a "no preference" on the fill-in-the-box questions. My bad. Too late to fix it now.

t edit but, again, it says at the bottom that if you have trouble with the form, to just email your ballot.


sumi - Mar 18, 2003 8:25:02 am PST #7813 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

But, the problems I was having with the ballot were so frustrating. It made me really not want to bother. Can we do it differently next time? Am I the only person who had that problem?


Jon B. - Mar 18, 2003 8:37:27 am PST #7814 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Can we do it differently next time?

Yeah, you can email your ballot. Which is what we were expecting everyone to do until I volunteered to create a form that would make it simpler for most people.


Jon B. - Mar 18, 2003 8:38:22 am PST #7815 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Sorry -- that came out meaner than I intended.


sumi - Mar 18, 2003 9:51:02 am PST #7816 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

In future, I won't bother.


brenda m - Mar 18, 2003 10:56:00 am PST #7817 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

Sumi, I'm sorry you had trouble with the ballot. We're still sort of feeling our way through this process, and indeed, the no preference option is there so that you don't have to record an opinion on every issue. Jon, and the rest of us, didn't think about what that would mean in the instances where a number had to be input, but it was an oversight. But someone suggested when you were having trouble earlier that you just email Laura and tell her what you wanted your votes (or non-votes) to be. Wouldn't that solve the problem?


Betsy HP - Mar 18, 2003 11:07:17 am PST #7818 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Would it be appropriate to copy ita's explanation of mieskie/Anathema to Press? I've been avoiding Bureaucracy, and I wouldn't have known about it if Dana hadn't told me.


Jon B. - Mar 18, 2003 11:17:55 am PST #7819 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Would it be appropriate to copy ita's explanation of mieskie/Anathema to Press?

I'd rather we let sleeping dogs lie, but if you really think it needs to be more widely disseminated, I'd prefer a link to ita's post (and not the text of it) so that folks will see the follow up and not ask all the same questions. The situation was painful enough without having to relive it.

t edited to note that this is my opinion only.


Lyra Jane - Mar 18, 2003 11:18:09 am PST #7820 of 10001
Up with the sun

Would it be appropriate to copy ita's explanation of mieskie/Anathema to Press?

I have no official say on this, but personally?

It's over. It's done. Let's let it rest, both as a courtesy to Anathema and to avoid endless discussion that won't do anything but hurt feelings. If someone specifically asked, I would say give them the link.


Noumenon - Mar 18, 2003 12:25:11 pm PST #7821 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

I'm asking. I thought I read bureaucracy, but the only post I remember about mieskie was from askye.