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
Thanks, Wolfram. I've appreciated your posts, and the difficult position you put yourself in.
I wonder if it's time for another go-round of What Are We Here For, Anyway? at least as it applies to the creation of new threads. My position is that we are a Jossverse-oriented place. We have some side interests, true, mostly around fanfiction and some other favorite TV shows. Anything else (and even those, I could argue) is off-message. We don't want to be a general-purpose discussion website, and we don't have the capacity, really. This is why I would argue that all the miscellaneous topics, even the really important ones, belong in Natter. I know Natter is hard to keep up with, but threadsuck (which is SO AWESOME) really does let a person scan over what's been discussed. There's no problem with conversations streching out over days, with long breaks, if that's what people are worried about.
I'm sure I could say more about this, but won't for the moment.
Once we get the search function back things will ease a bit as well.
I would really rather not have that discussion right now, Jesse. Honestly, I think that'll be a discussion well suited to the downtime after the end of the season and the F2F, and I'm not sure I can handle a big meta meaning-of-life conversation right now. Even relatively minor things are getting bogged down right now, and my hunch is that the world situation is bleeding into a lot of other areas for many people. I don't think major subjects should be decided on at a time when we're so on edge.
Oh yeah, I'm sure you're right, brenda. Now is probably Not The Time. I just couldn't help myself.
Further, it seems that Natter is one of the places where the subject separation is most wanted/needed.
Don't make me break out my "thread drift is the lifeblood of Natter" rant.
t /thread proliferation is WRONG WRONG WRONG
That was me, not Wolfie.
Yep, never used the word. :) So how about moving voting discussion closer to this thread? They do go hand in hand.
So how about moving voting discussion closer to this thread?
From a coding point of view, it's aesthetically sloppy. Right now, they appear in the order of creation. They could appear alphabetical or in most-recently-posted-in order -- basically anything that's sortable. Forcing threads to appear in a specific order means you have to hardcode in the thread id's which is badbadbad.
Don't make me break out my "thread drift is the lifeblood of Natter" rant.
Unless you're like me and can't post in Natter because constantly coming in late and not being able to keep up with a conversation makes you completely nuts.
(And yes, this is my issue. I take full ownership. Please do not tell me how wrong I am again.)
That was me, not Wolfie.
Bwah! See, there I was wracking my brains to think of anything that had sounded controversial, and the only thing I could remember (which had then been re-presented in a way that made me realise it wasn't intended combatively) wasn't even you. Shows how much attention
I'm
paying.
Gandalfe, Wolfie - I abase myself at your collective feet.
And yes, this is my issue. I take full ownership
Mine too, fwiw. It's a thing. I'm cool with it.
t /Natterishness
Gandalfe, Wolfie - I abase myself at your collective feet.
t Sigh
It looks like this nickname's gonna stick.
And no abasement necessary, at least not for my share of the collective feet.
t /Natter
