Perhaps someone will volunteer to pick up the torch for Dollhouse?
'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
River ,'Out Of Gas'
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
Jon B. - May 11, 2008 1:01:59 pm PDT #2844 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Rob - May 11, 2008 4:22:35 pm PDT #2845 of 6786
Numerous times, and it's always an unequivocal yes.
Every time someone argues against a new thread based on server resources I claim that adding a thread, unless it draws a lot more active posters, will have no measurable effect on server load.
Am I right? I don't know. You'd really have to measure load on the server per thread to know for sure.
Jesse - May 11, 2008 4:24:03 pm PDT #2846 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think at one point we were much closer to the technical limit of server load or whatever than we are now -- but I don't know if that's actually true. People who know stuff?
billytea - May 11, 2008 4:26:23 pm PDT #2847 of 6786
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
People who know stuff?
Wait, I know this one. They're the luckiest people in the world, right?
Amy - May 11, 2008 6:01:41 pm PDT #2848 of 6786
Because books.
billytea made me choke on my tea. Heh.
Kevin - May 11, 2008 9:23:13 pm PDT #2849 of 6786
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Another thread is just another bit of the database - there's very little difference between having posts in Natter compared to, say, Bitches. Unless I'm wrong.
Laura - May 12, 2008 2:14:03 am PDT #2850 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.
Every time someone argues against a new thread based on server resources I claim that adding a thread, unless it draws a lot more active posters, will have no measurable effect on server load.
The server isn't the only resource that may be taxed. Is it more effort for our beloved stompies to maintain added threads? (Yes, I know I am usually pro new shiny threads)
Jesse - May 12, 2008 2:37:23 am PDT #2851 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Another thread is just another bit of the database - there's very little difference between having posts in Natter compared to, say, Bitches. Unless I'm wrong.
The theory is that new threads inevitably create more posts.
Jessica - May 12, 2008 4:31:39 am PDT #2852 of 6786
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
childrearing thread
I decided to take the weekend to cool down about this, and it turns out I still find it pretty offensive (and would find it so even if I didn't have a child of my own). Especially following so closely on the heels of posts like this one Laga "Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job" May 10, 2008 7:37:48 pm PDT:
I do get a sense of a lot of hurt feelings and it makes me uncomfortable knowing that people feel hurt. One of the main reasons I love it here is because people are compassionate and I hate to watch that break down.
In keeping with our established policy on etiquette violations, I would like to request an apology, and preferably one that doesn't include the phrase "But I was only joking." Claiming that you love this board because of the compassion Buffistas show for one another and then posting something as deliberately rude and inflammatory as that doesn't strike me as terribly funny.
(And I'd be more than happy to take this to another thread if people don't want in Bureau - unfortunately, our "deal with it in thread before bringing it to Bureaucraxy" guidelines kind of break down when the offending post is in here!)
Steph L. - May 12, 2008 4:32:35 am PDT #2853 of 6786
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Thank you, Jess.