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
Thirdly? The rules are unclear on the point of coming back under other names, coming back after banning and so on.
They say
If you don't listen to the warning, you will be suspended for two months. And if you come back unreformed, you will be banned. Banning is rare and very much a last resort.
That says that if we suspend Mieskie, he waits out the suspension, comes back and is still unpleasant, we ban him. It's clearly intended to deal only with the situation of a poster who complies with a ban, but doesn't learn the lesson. It has no reference to people who come back as another username immediately after suspension to get their last word in.
We don't have a policy on that.
Fair point, brenda. I'd assumed that offenders would be asked to Doblerize or otherwise informally warned (preferably more than once) first.
The Dead Horse title makes me sad. Even though I voted against the new thread, I want to believe that it's going to be useful and productive discussion.
The Dead Horse title makes me sad.
It really was just a joke.
Yeah, but there are people who like it more than Whip Appeal, and that makes me sad.
I think it should be called "Imagery of Cranial Trauma" myself... NB: This was a joke.
The Dead Horse title makes me sad.
That's why I withdrew When Buffistas Attack. Gives the wrong image.
I still think When Buffistas Attack needs to be used as a thread title somewhere, where it's not implying divisiveness.
The image of Buffistas attacking en masse, or a Fox special about Buffistas getting medieval on people, just gives me giggle fits.
Whip Appeal makes me think Cool Whip. Er, actually, and has nothing that I can see to do with voting or voting discussion. Some joke about highschool debates or caucuses or those funny gigantic-voting machines with curtains that move via lever, and you might woo me.
Away from the One True Threadname: No Big Whoop. It's all about the discussion.
Well, there's the part where bitterchick is going to be the Whip, in the Congressional Sense, and the part where people will be appealing to posters to vote their way.
