Thank you ita for once again being willing to be the stompy.
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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
Burrell - Apr 12, 2003 5:40:30 pm PDT #9484 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Burrell - Apr 12, 2003 5:41:58 pm PDT #9485 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
And I too miss your presence here, Allyson. I'd love to see you around more.
Typo Boy - Apr 12, 2003 5:42:42 pm PDT #9486 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Well - I can post my process suggestion if you like now.
First of all stompies are allowed to be proactive - to decide enough is enough and issue a warning without discussion. But I think most of them won't.
So at a certain minimum number of complaints or if they observe incidents, but are unsure if a warning is needed they ask for comments - letting possible warnee know.
As soon as they have enough comments they say "OK, we've have enough info" and ask that comments stop, possibly waiting for potential warnee to say something if enough time as not been given.
Immediately or after waiting enough time, they get together via e-mail, decide, and warn or not, announcing the decision in bureacracy. Consensus if possible, majority rule if not - among stompies only, not among buffistas as a whole.
It puts a bit on the stompies, but compared to endless decision on isssue of really extraordinary and lasting divisiveness, I hope they will accept the added responsibility.
Typo Boy - Apr 12, 2003 5:44:40 pm PDT #9487 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
And I also want to thank ita - and I really apologize for suggesting you take on added responsiblity - except I think having a little extra authority may be easier for you to take than the endless and sometimes really nasty discussion.
scrappy - Apr 12, 2003 6:16:53 pm PDT #9488 of 10001
Nobody
I am thirding the more Allyson around here posts. I am sorry the discussion makes folk crazy. It doesn't bother me at all--a LOTof Buffiistas like to put their two cents in, and then you end up with endless opinion-o-rama, but this crowd has opinions on everything, so behavior isn't treated any differently than corsets or baseball or recipes. I skim over any subject when my eyes start to glaze over or my teeth clench.
Noumenon - Apr 12, 2003 6:25:51 pm PDT #9489 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
People were suggesting possibilities re: my non-existence as a physical entity. --Deena
Warnings and suspensions look pretty mild next to that!
Steph L. - Apr 12, 2003 6:26:42 pm PDT #9490 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I am thirding
Heh. If we vote, can we get more Allyson around here?
...it was a JOKE, people! Really!
(Well, the wanting more Allyson isn't a joke; the wanting a vote IS.)
victor infante - Apr 12, 2003 6:37:28 pm PDT #9491 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I vote that I receive a Federal subsidy to have Allyson follow me around and make snarky comments to people who annoy me.
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2003 6:39:33 pm PDT #9492 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can't vote before you propose, Victor.
P.M. Marc - Apr 12, 2003 6:41:39 pm PDT #9493 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
Victor can't propose! He's already married.