Xander ,'End of Days'
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
I don't like to send people non-positive (not exactly *negative*, but-- oh, shut up, I know negative/positive is a binary!)
'Taint so. Zero is neither positive nor negative.
In a non-math-pedant part of this post, I'm not sure what you should do with the post. So this is really a post of very little content.
'Taint so. Zero is neither positive nor negative.
AHA!
(Btw, could a Stompie whitefont the last-ep-of-Buffy name spoiler in SP, current latest post? It's teeny, but it'll ping some people's spoiler-radar.)
could a Stompie whitefont the last-ep-of-Buffy name spoiler in SP
Done.
Will people think I'm losing it if I want to say one last thing about the m/s/a issue?
The conversation started (again) when someone suggested we should post about his expulsion in Press.
I think we should have done so.
My reasoning? I feel that Avoiding Unpleasant Feelings should take second place to Clearing The Air.
I will of course accede to the community feeling that my priorities are the reverse of most Buffistas' in that regard, but I did want to say that for posterity.
John, I don't have your email addy. can you drop me a line at my profile addy?
In, as they say, sent. I'll make my email address public again, thanks for reminding me.
The first line of my Post I Still Want To Post was
It's my opinion that we should always make a short, flat-of-tone note in Sunnydale Press when someone has been banned, so that everybody, including the people who don't read Bureaucracy, will know.
so yeah, me too.
... t evil We could vote.
My reasoning? I feel that Avoiding Unpleasant Feelings should take second place to Clearing The Air.
I will note that my personal feeling is that this will not Clear The Air, but rather muddy everything.
Bureaucracy is a public board. If you want to know what's going on with board administration you have to read it. Since mieskie wasn't banned, but chose to leave after his deceit was exposed, I don't think it's incumbent upon us to underscore that fact. If mieskie was banned I could see the argument for it. Since the whole point of his self-removal was to end the divisiveness that he had caused, I don't see the value in dragging this out any further. In fact, I think it has a negative value.
Just my opinion.
Since mieskie wasn't banned
...and this is why I feel like Spike explaining Ben/Glory over and over again.
Mieskie was banned. Three times.
A total of three accounts were deactivated. Mieskie, mmmieskie, and Michael. The last two were him coming back in direct defiance of the first one.
The last incarnation just lasted longer.
time-delay cereal:
You know?
I still really want to discuss this. Anathema/whatever is gone, but the *generalized* issues are still very alive.
And I think a substantial-enough amount of other Buffistas still want to discuss it too.
I don't want to drop the subject yet. *Not* discussing it is making *me* upset. I think this is an important thing to have discussed; and I want to feel I am able to talk about it here.
(And, if discussing it is making you upset, I say, perhaps insensitively? I skipped hundreds and hundreds of voting-discussion posts because they made my head hurt and my heart ache. I also gave up my voice in that discussion. If this bannage-discussion makes you upset... maybe you could do the same.)
t edit Or, not cereal! I still hold to it, though.