Oh-- I like Jess's too!
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
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
Sophia Brooks - Mar 19, 2003 2:01:50 pm PST #8159 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Jess M. - Mar 19, 2003 2:02:07 pm PST #8160 of 10001
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
BGA (like SGA), Buffista Government Association
John H - Mar 19, 2003 2:02:41 pm PST #8161 of 10001
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).
Katie M - Mar 19, 2003 2:03:15 pm PST #8162 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
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.
Jon B. - Mar 19, 2003 2:04:24 pm PST #8163 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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.
Lyra Jane - Mar 19, 2003 2:04:27 pm PST #8164 of 10001
Up with the sun
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.
Jon B. - Mar 19, 2003 2:06:14 pm PST #8165 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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.
John H - Mar 19, 2003 2:18:21 pm PST #8166 of 10001
a quickedit tag that only stompies could use that would post the specific image
We need to check though, at some point all tags get stripped -- that code would need to run last or the image would get taken straight out again.
What about one more field in the table, "official_stompy_post"? -- there would be a checkbox, only visible to stompies, next to each post.
§ ita § - Mar 19, 2003 2:37:33 pm PST #8167 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you use a special quickedit, there's no issue with tags being stripped, since you're not entering a tag.
John H - Mar 19, 2003 2:40:33 pm PST #8168 of 10001
you're not entering a tag
Silly me, sorry. I was thinking about that Pretty-Inboard-Link thing that happens once, not dynamically every time.
Pseudoephedrine is Not My Friend.
So all you need is an if-clause in the post-displaying code -- if they're an admin, replace "!STOMP" with the stompy image or whatever.
And this is probably more Building than it is Bureacracy, eh?