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
Wait, so here you strongly care about spoiler rules, but for gamers who don't want to be spoiled for comics, or people who want to talk about BSG without getting spoiled for Stargate, need to just get over it?
As mentioned, these are two different issues, entirely.
One is about our standing rules for television spoilers, and one is about time-shifted viewers or delayed readers getting spoiled in a thread where talk about already-aired or already-released episodes or issues is acceptable by the pre-existing rules.
I was attempting to point out what I see as a massive inconsistency in your position.
I'm not seeing how there is a massive inconsistency, considering it's apples to oranges.
I'm going to retable DH discussion when gaming is done.
I thought tabling a discussion was when you took it
off
the table. So...wait, is "retable" supposed to be the
opposite
of "table"? And not "table again"?
Oh, ha ha. As I suspected:
Table as a verb has two contradictory meanings, one in use in the United States and the other in the remainder of the English-speaking world. In the United States, the motion to table (or "lay on the table") is a proposal to suspend consideration of a pending motion, while in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, to "table" a motion (or "place on the table") is the means to commence discussion on a proposal.
So it is the opposite of flammable/inflammable, which actually mean the same thing. Interesting.
"table" is the "aloha" of verbs.
I think "table" might be my new answer to everything.
Hah. Sorry, I had no idea it had a different meaning in the US!
Welcome to b'cacy.
"Table!"
Right up there with "Spoon!"
