'Conviction (1)'
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
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.
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.
go no big whoop. choose no big whoop.
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.
It's all about the discussion.
How's this for a Title?
(Edit to make myself clear.)
go no big whoop. choose no big whoop.
How about No Big Whip? (also a joke)
go no big whoop. choose no big whoop.
I am big with the no big whoopage.
Yeah, but there are people who like it more than Whip Appeal, and that makes me sad.
Wow. Umm. Okay.
First, I like Dead Horse because to me it has a tone of not-taking-ourselves-too-seriously, not of futility. YDHMV, as always.
Second, well, see my last post. Whip Appeal doesn't make me froth alarmingly at the mouth or anything, it just doesn't mean anything to me.
I think I'll just shut up and leave bureaucracy now.