Xander ,'End of Days'
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
A warning is something you get from a beat cop when you are annoying another citizen. it doesn't go on your record, it's just a societal aside.
Technically, an official warning DOES go on your record.
The Nutty Asstastic Suggestion from earlier, IIRC, does not.
Roughly 200 posts ago, Nou wrote:
I wonder if victor and jengod gave up Stomping because they didn't want to have to make the decision, "I'm going to send the official warning. It's my call that enough of us agree." (I always wondered why they resigned, because the white-fonting duties of Stomping didn't seem high pressure.)
Won't speak for Jengod, but Victor resigned because he works ridiculous hours at one newspaper, writes columns for two others, writes for two Web sites and is eating what's left of his so-called personal time by working an extra 40 hours a week trying to launch a new magazine, which involves trying to secure 2.5 million dollars in funding for a project that doesn't exist outside my head, coordinating 30 people spread across the United States and Canada, all of whom are working on vague promises of a paycheck if--and only if--the whole thing doesn't go up in flames, and consistently postponing appointments with his impending nervous breakdown. Victor's a little tired these days.
Technically, an official warning DOES go on your record.
I guess an officeal write-up warning would. I was thinking of the colloquial "I'm warning you buddy," I guess.
t shrug sorry.
Wow, victor. Like some chaos with your anarchy, do you? All that and ferrets. I wouldn't have pried into your reasons, if it weren't for the simultaneity with jengod that made me curious.
which involves trying to secure 2.5 million dollars in funding for a project that doesn't exist outside my head
huh. this sounds all very interesting to the Make-Shit-Happen part of my brain.
Victor, you're officially the good twin. Other than failing to bake bread and running a stupid fan site, I ain't doing SQUAT.
Two apologies in Building A Better Mouthtrap Board from Zoe. This is the type of behavior everyone wants from her, yes? Then, those who were apologised to might want to acknowledge the apologies.
As one of the people she apologised to ... huh? She apologised to me for thinking Nora did DB work. I was telling her Nora didn't do DB work (and by that I do NOT mean Boreanaz, though I suspect she hasn't worked him either) because it was true, not because I was offended! I think she apologised to Nora too, and I see even less point to that.
My instinctive reaction to it was "Huh? Okay." And typing that? Rude. So I didn't. But here you have it. Giving thanks for a meaningless apology is furthering nonsensical communication by participating in it, and I don't see a value to it. So I'm not going to play.
We have over 800 registered members, right? And - from voter turnout - say 100 dedicated, or frequent, posters. And if everyone just posts once about a subject we get 100 posts in here. And if they respond and discuss we get multiples of 100 posts. So, really, Kafka grows by leaps and bounds, but people want to be heard.
The problem with all the "talking it out" is not that it gets repetitious, but that it gets nasty.
Yes. I don't hate when we talk long on an issue. I just hate when we start feeling hurt by each other, over someone who isn't even in the conversation, or over a voting method, or a possible thread, and also, monkeys.
ita - thank you for sending the notice.
I just noticed that the WX Contingency fora were left open the last time we left. (I haven't checked them all, but at least the main forum and NAFDA are postable-in.)