Gloom- I haven't had a chance to parse your suggestion properly, but ultimately, I think it is a good way to go. I've just been posting so much I was wanting to tell myself to STFU.
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
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: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
Sophia Brooks - Jul 17, 2007 10:42:03 am PDT #14 of 6776
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
§ ita § - Jul 17, 2007 10:47:18 am PDT #15 of 6776
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So much of this is based on subjectiveness, though. One of the last times an SPN thread discussion started, volume was mentioned as a reason, although Eureka had topped that volume when on the air, and no one suggested spinning it off.
I don't know if anyone who'd wanted a separate thread looked at the numbers and said "Oh, I guess I don't want that anymore." I suspect it's more complex than that.
You know me--always wanting a hard and bright line so we don't have to be subjective. I just don't think that the hard and bright line is going to make anyone that much less hurt or emotional.
Glamcookie - Jul 17, 2007 10:50:52 am PDT #16 of 6776
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
But if it was a known factor going in, then it'd be more like, "Well, we've hit [number]% of posts for X show. Let's talk about a new thread." Instead of, "I'm sick of scrolling by X posts! Get out, get out, get out!"
msbelle - Jul 17, 2007 6:35:32 pm PDT #17 of 6776
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
hunh, I was excited to see posts...
But if you do care what happens, as in--something does, but don't care which of the choices happens, then what?
If I don't care what happens, I tend to stop reading the discussion. Very quickly thereafter, I stop remembering that some of the board is discussing taking some action on something I don't care about.
- following my own advice.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 18, 2007 2:55:02 am PDT #18 of 6776
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hey, did we ever consense on reopening Book Club for Deathly Hallows (if it matters, I'ma for it)? What needs to be done to get it from consense to reality?
le nubian - Jul 18, 2007 3:27:05 am PDT #19 of 6776
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
That's the question I've been asking, Franken. :-)
Here's a link to the thread again:
If it is a hassle to re-open, let us know and we will use Literary.
shrift - Jul 18, 2007 5:39:51 am PDT #20 of 6776
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am happy to consense about reopening Book Club for HP7, as my copy is arriving Saturday and the internet is already landmined with spoilers.
Pix - Jul 18, 2007 5:43:42 am PDT #21 of 6776
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I am happy to consense about reopening Book Club for HP7, as my copy is arriving Saturday and the internet is already landmined with spoilers.
Yes, please.
Also, the old B'crxy won't go away from my sidebar even when I try to unsubscribe. Am I doing something dumb, or is that just a coding thing that no one has had time to deal with yet?
brenda m - Jul 18, 2007 5:44:32 am PDT #22 of 6776
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Stompies? I think we have achieved Bull Shit.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 18, 2007 5:50:08 am PDT #23 of 6776
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Am I doing something dumb, or is that just a coding thing that no one has had time to deal with yet?
I think it's the latter. The side bars display whether you subscribe or not, I think. Bureau-blah-blah 3 needs to be archived or moved to closed threads before it goes away (I think).