Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.

'Not Fade Away'


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.

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Jesse - Apr 14, 2003 12:53:57 pm PDT #9846 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

What about my obvious smacking around of Zoe? Shouldn't I have been warned? I was flaming her, and I meant to do it. Where be my spanking?

In general, I think we tend to let one or two things go by, in the hope that they were abberations. When you said some other offensive (to me) things around the voting, and whatnot, I brought it up in this thread, and planned to ask that you be warned if you didn't chill out. Which you did.

I do think there's a balancing act -- someone's value to the community gets weighed against their offensiveness, if you know what I mean. And I do have some internal conflict about that, but I think it's just human nature. I mean, really, you've worked your ass off for us, so you get more of a pass than someone whose best-case scenario is that her posts are mystifying.


Jesse - Apr 14, 2003 12:55:28 pm PDT #9847 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'll second msbelle's proposal.


msbelle - Apr 14, 2003 12:56:11 pm PDT #9848 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

In general, I think we tend to let one or two things go by, in the hope that they were abberations.

I'm never doing this again. Call 'em fast and call 'em early.


Kat - Apr 14, 2003 12:56:32 pm PDT #9849 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

msbelle, does it need to be the same complainant who makes the request in thread as makes the request here.

Justkim, I don't mind the zealot part. Hell. I'm a zealot about a fair number of things. But vengeful?

It did give me a new tag though.

Also, this experience is positive insofar as I'm finding all sorts of agreement with others with whom I normally have divergent opinions.


Steph L. - Apr 14, 2003 12:56:33 pm PDT #9850 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

FWIW, I took Zoe's "zealots" comment to mean that we are fanatical about Buffy/Angel

But, remember, we are the people who have a FAQ about whether or not we're a cult. We are the people who filk and recap and analyze to bits the ME universes. We can be zealous in our love for the show.

Perhaps that is all Zoe meant.

I'd like to believe that. But why "vengeful," then?


Hayden - Apr 14, 2003 12:57:22 pm PDT #9851 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

ok - since no one has answered me, I am moving forward.

What am I, chopped liver?

On edit:

Nice job delineating policies, too. I also think that we should vote on the scope & warning of the warnings, or whether the warnings should been graded for seriousness of offense and things like that.


Jesse - Apr 14, 2003 12:58:12 pm PDT #9852 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In Matt's recap, he said:

And by "love," I mean "vengeful zealots."

I can imagine she thought it would be funny and cute.


Kat - Apr 14, 2003 12:58:29 pm PDT #9853 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

hayden seconded it before msbelle proposed it! Robert would be rolling over. I also second. Do we need one more?


justkim - Apr 14, 2003 12:58:45 pm PDT #9854 of 10001
Another social casualty...

She was quoting Matt's most recent re-cap:

BIG DAMN BAD: My love will follow you wherever you go, Fred. And by "love," I mean "vengeful zealots."

(Edit: x-post)


Atropa - Apr 14, 2003 12:58:47 pm PDT #9855 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I'd like to believe that. But why "vengeful," then?

I'll believe it when she answers Steph's request for clarification.