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
Oh yeah, fourthly and fifthly (sounding more and more like whatshisname from Twelfth Night):
- Like I said before, I would rather we had no suspension/banning procedure than the one we have, or more specifically, I wish we had not used our suspension procedure in this case. Mieskie as Mieskie never bothered me at all, ironically.
- There is a way to exclude people without using IPs -- you could do it with cookies. It's not something you couldn't get around, but it would take out the less tech-minded of trolls.
Let's waste time with a lively debate.
I like this.
I dislike Big Whoop and Dead Horse because I'd rather not have a thread title that makes fun of the thread itself, if it's supposed to be a place where our big decisions as a community are made. But that may be my issues talking.
Edited: Yeah, I know the "waste time" quote is also self-depreciating, but it feels different somehow. Plus, it makes it clear what we're doing within the thread, which Big Whoop doesn't.
How about Town Hall?
BGA (like SGA), Buffista Government Association
a post in the relevant thread bearing a Stompy logo
This was discussed a while ago. It would need a change to board code so that stompies were able to post images, or that a post so tagged had a Stompy Seal on it somewhere.
I think it would have quite a visual impact, as this place is generally sparse-looking and low on images. (Which is a Good Thing, of course).
Because I just realized that people may not be familiar - sorry, parochial American moment - there is a position in the United States Congress called the "whip." I think it's the number two position in the party, and the whip is the person responsible for getting Congresscritters to line up behind the party for a vote. Which is why the pun.
I'd rather not have a thread title that makes fun of the thread itself
I don't see Big Whoop as making fun of the thread so much as saying that we don't take ourselves too seriously. I think Dead Horse, OTOH, makes fun of the thread.
This was discussed a while ago. It would need a change to board code so that stompies were able to post images, or that a post so tagged had a Stompy Seal on it somewhere.
I know -- I thought it was a cool idea then, and wasn't sure if it had been dismissed in BBaBB or what.
This was discussed a while ago. It would need a change to board code so that stompies were able to post images, or that a post so tagged had a Stompy Seal on it somewhere.
I believe the best idea from that conversation was a quickedit tag that only stompies could use that would post the specific image.
