Exactly!
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
I only wish it was practical to have a highlights thing where you could know what was being discussed and go there, but I realize that is complete not possible.
I can't be the only one who remembers the near-riot that occurred when something of this sort was suggested back in the day. (WX, I think?)
Actually, I remember, too, which is why I was careful not to say it was an actual suggestion! I really want it for threads I only visit sometimes (Boxed Set, Music, Firefly, Bitches)
I can't be the only one who remembers the near-riot that occurred when something of this sort was suggested back in the day.
I remember. Wasn't something like, whoever's post # is a multiple of 100 has to summarize the preceeding 100 posts?
Ha! I don't remember that suggestion/discussion, but from Steph's version of it, I can see as how it would cause... irritation.
Or else rampant cheating!
There was a thread on Table Talk that did that, I think. Not the forced summarization, but someone volunteered to maintain a digest version of one of the Mothers Who Think threads.
I don't remember the forcing part!
Hey, Sophia (if that is your real name!), you might want to edit out your signature in a post up there...
I'm responding here to a comment in Lightbulbs, since (my part of it anyway) doesn't have to do with the current discussion:
This happened with me and the Music thread, and also with Comedy and Procedurals. The conversations I was having in Natter and the people I was having them with are now simply missing from my board experience.
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I've been mulling over tossing this out there, and I still don't know if now is the time, but I think it would be appropriate to revisit a couple of the tv threads - Reality has exploded but the conversation in a couple of the others has been pretty sporadic, and I personally think there's a question to be raised about keeping them.
I like Technology as a separate thread because more than once I've had a tech question and popped in there. It's my very own Geek Squad where I know the credentials of the people answering the questions.
I've also used Music as a source of "I just heard this song, who is this!" It's nice having a pre-defined group with the qualifications I need.