To be honest, there's not a lot we can do about the stuff on WX (or anywhere else we don't own the software). We do have zips of the WX threads in the archives here. They aren't perfect copies (except for a couple that I went through by hand and fixed), but we do have them.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
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
DXMachina - Oct 19, 2007 8:59:18 am PDT #1757 of 6786
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
DXMachina - Oct 19, 2007 9:02:16 am PDT #1758 of 6786
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Actually, I think that WX just reset everything because all posts on that server are coming up as "new."
Yeah, now that it finally let me log in, all the BCP threads are marked "new", as is the TTOvies thread. I wonder if they managed to lose all their user history.
Dana - Oct 19, 2007 9:04:35 am PDT #1759 of 6786
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's actually been fairly stable recently. Sounds like the server went down hard, though.
Laga - Oct 21, 2007 1:28:23 pm PDT #1760 of 6786
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Well that was a short experiment. I just got terribly spoiled for Torchwood. Yup, Boxed Set is not the place for me. I just can't skim without my eyeballs picking up little details that my brain doesn't want to know.
Liese S. - Oct 24, 2007 6:57:59 pm PDT #1761 of 6786
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hello.
Well, we have hit a stage of transition in our little board identity. The Firefly thread is, at last, sadly reaching nigh upon 10,000 posts. There is currently a discussion going on over there as to whether or not we should let it expire afterwards.
Points on the pro side are: show is canceled, supplemental content such as DVDs are pretty much exhausted, not generating a huge amount of thread traffic.
Points on the con side are: we have cultural ties to the body of work in question, we still participate in various ways in its fandom, does still generate some thread traffic, more than other thread.
Thought I'd bring the conversation over here to see what people thought about it.
Burrell - Oct 24, 2007 7:20:47 pm PDT #1762 of 6786
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
eh, loved the show, but I think it's time to retire the thread.
Liese S. - Oct 24, 2007 7:24:27 pm PDT #1763 of 6786
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, I should add, probably we'll continue to have a place to discuss Firefly related stuff. Our best guess right now would be Minearverse.
DavidS - Oct 24, 2007 7:40:54 pm PDT #1764 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
On the one hand, it wouldn't hurt to have another Firefly thread.
OTOH, it would take ten years (at least) for one to reach the next 10,000 mark.
Maybe that's too much.
aurelia - Oct 24, 2007 8:11:01 pm PDT #1765 of 6786
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I know a vote is required to open a new thread. Does the same go for closing one?
DavidS - Oct 24, 2007 8:13:02 pm PDT #1766 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I know a vote is required to open a new thread. Does the same go for closing one?
I don't know that we've been to this fork before exactly. Well, I guess when Buffy and Angel ended. But we also had Previously On thread to talk about back episodes there. Plus, named "Buffistas."
I don't think it's an automatic rollover at this point.