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?
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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
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
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.
Laura - Mar 18, 2003 12:45:55 pm PST #7822 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Laura - Mar 18, 2003 12:47:12 pm PST #7823 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
ita's explanation
ita "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Mar 14, 2003 11:13:06 pm EST
Also in the let it lie camp.
Laura - Mar 18, 2003 1:55:00 pm PST #7824 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Don't pay any attention to me; I am just testing to make sure the empty table of vote results looks like I planned. I will put the real thing up after midnight, but I am leaving town about 5AM so I don't want to be fussing with it later. Testing and deleting...
edit - Yay! It worked.
John H - Mar 18, 2003 2:03:14 pm PST #7825 of 10001
Also in the let it lie camp.
One argument for making it more public would be that, as askye posted, Mieskie has written privately to Buffistas and "assured" them that he's not Mieskie. That's a creepy situation to be in, and it's even more creepy now if he's been deactivated and you don't know about it yet.
Also, no argument based on doing something as a "courtesy to Anathema" works with me, you won't be surprised to hear. We do not owe the guy any courtesy.
Dana - Mar 18, 2003 2:05:02 pm PST #7826 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I figure if people wonder where he went, they'll post "Where'd Anathema go?" And then some kind soul can Nilly the post for them. It's not like the announcement wasn't public. It was plenty public and was discussed a whole bunch in the thread dedicated to such issues.
I say we let it be. t /Beatles