I read this, I swear I did. I even thought I was following it.
Turns out all I'm sure about is that people are pissed.
And that I'm glad I missed it in real time.
When's the thread being opened again?
(I moved it to the RH side).
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
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
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2003 6:22:14 pm PST #8417 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
P.M. Marc - Mar 20, 2003 6:22:43 pm PST #8418 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Please, everybody chill! There are people getting bombs dropped on them, and y'all are getting upset over a posting board?
Honestly, I think that's why.
And while Allyson's comment crossed the snark line, I'd ask that new people who are suddenly speaking up please keep in mind that a radical paradigm shift for an existing culture isn't an easy thing, and that's what's happening.
Given how we used to do things, and how long it worked, and how resistant some of us still are to the change (and I voted for voting!), it comes across as somewhat insulting when there's this "well, yes, but the rules have changed, so let's look at the old decisions and redo them". It may be irrational, but it smacks of someone moving into the neighbourhood and suddenly demanding that all the houses get painted a colour that you happen to approve of. Does that make sense? At all?
Please?
Sophia Brooks - Mar 20, 2003 6:23:50 pm PST #8419 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
ita, we (or Jess and I) decided that it can be opened at any time now.
Whoever opens needs to link in press with my post above or let me know.
We are still keeping the rest of the time at midnight because it is easier.
And I am not pissed. Excet for the part where I have had, like 3 glasses of wine.
Gandalfe - Mar 20, 2003 6:26:53 pm PST #8420 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Honestly, it was just a line that popped into my head, because I was going to brutally rip Allyson a new one for that comment, and thought that it might troll me, and then thought, "Well, let them ban me" and then I got goofy.
Anne W. - Mar 20, 2003 6:26:57 pm PST #8421 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
It may be irrational, but it smacks of someone moving into the neighbourhood and suddenly demanding that all the houses get painted a colour that you happen to approve of. Does that make sense? At all?
It makes perfect sense to me. I'm glad that we developed some procedures for making decisions. I don't think that means we're going to become all regimented or anything. Instead, it gives us a way of both controlling the rate of change and making sure that things don't go nutso-cuckoo.
Jesse - Mar 20, 2003 6:28:39 pm PST #8422 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, so moving on....we're ready to open the Formal Discussion on the waiting period question?
Sophia Brooks - Mar 20, 2003 6:29:14 pm PST #8423 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Yes. Jesse. yes.
Gandalfe - Mar 20, 2003 6:30:14 pm PST #8424 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Yep.
P.M. Marc - Mar 20, 2003 6:30:27 pm PST #8425 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Should be open.
Jesse - Mar 20, 2003 6:31:15 pm PST #8426 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, the thread's open. Who wants to post in Press? I'd recommend reproducing the proposal in the Discussion Thread, and linking to that from Press.