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.
You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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 19, 2003 1:43:54 pm PST #8136 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana - Mar 19, 2003 1:45:19 pm PST #8137 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The Dead Horse title makes me sad.
It really was just a joke.
Jesse - Mar 19, 2003 1:46:31 pm PST #8138 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, but there are people who like it more than Whip Appeal, and that makes me sad.
John H - Mar 19, 2003 1:47:55 pm PST #8139 of 10001
I think it should be called "Imagery of Cranial Trauma" myself... NB: This was a joke.
Sean K - Mar 19, 2003 1:48:07 pm PST #8140 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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.
Nutty - Mar 19, 2003 1:48:54 pm PST #8141 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
Jesse - Mar 19, 2003 1:50:11 pm PST #8142 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
John H - Mar 19, 2003 1:50:25 pm PST #8143 of 10001
From "Enemies":
Wesley: We must contact Giles immediately.
Xander: Good thinking. Let's waste time with a lively debate. Leave Buffy alone. See how dead she gets.
Jon B. - Mar 19, 2003 1:52:57 pm PST #8144 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
go no big whoop. choose no big whoop.
victor infante - Mar 19, 2003 1:53:46 pm PST #8145 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
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.
You're right. We don't. Obviously, there's only a couple things we cna do. We can move from suspension to banning, obviously. That doesn't preclude someone from coming back under another name. (Incidently, I don't believe this will happen again with Mieskie, at least not any time soon.) I'm not sure what options we have if it becomes an incessant problem, short of having their IP shut them down. Which I'm not above.