Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.

'Objects In Space'


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

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Strega - Dec 05, 2008 11:46:18 pm PST #3385 of 6786

Maybe we should leave off discussing where totally non-Jossverse, extended, OM (that's not comics) discussion should go until such a creature is more than hypothetical.

Like if a webcam channel was a recurring subject in Natter for a hundred or so posts spread over 6+ weeks?

And if that doesn't meet your definition... there's a chicken/egg issue. If I read this right, you'll only figure out where such a conversation goes when it already exists, but there appears to be some agreement that it's imposible to have that kind of long-term intensive conversation in Natter, so of course there aren't any examples of that happening.

Again, I don't object to the conversation about The Guild happening wherever it happens. I guess I object to the implication that it should be easy to figure out what goes where. If we're agreed that it's confusing and Byzantine, and that's Just The Way It is... fair enough.


Wolfram - Dec 06, 2008 5:39:36 pm PST #3386 of 6786
Visilurking

Maybe we should leave off discussing where totally non-Jossverse, extended, OM (that's not comics) discussion should go until such a creature is more than hypothetical.

If I read this right, you'll only figure out where such a conversation goes when it already exists, but there appears to be some agreement that it's imposible to have that kind of long-term intensive conversation in Natter, so of course there aren't any examples of that happening.

No, I meant when the TN-JEOM(TNC) topic exists, not when the TN-JEOM(TNC) discussion exists. Assuming The Guild is JEOM. Sorry for the confusion.

If we're agreed that it's confusing and Byzantine, and that's Just The Way It is... fair enough.

I agree. It is, and it is.


Topic!Cindy - Dec 06, 2008 6:13:54 pm PST #3387 of 6786
What is even happening?

The OM thread is for other media and it's no longer confined to the Jossverse, so I'm really confused by this conversation since about Brenda's post on.


Wolfram - Dec 06, 2008 6:32:19 pm PST #3388 of 6786
Visilurking

Cindy, my impression was that it was unclear whether OM had been opened up as de facto thread for all other media, because the new, broader slug line may have been only supposed to reflect its metamorphosis from OM Jossversian thread, to OM Josversian thread plus general comics thread.

If I'm wrong and this thing needs no discussion, feel free to disregard my suggestion to not discuss it.


Ginger - Dec 06, 2008 7:47:30 pm PST #3389 of 6786
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

it's confusing and Byzantine, and that's Just The Way It is.

Sounds like a thread title to me.


Connie Neil - Dec 07, 2008 4:19:18 pm PST #3390 of 6786
brillig

Sounds like a thread title to me.

Reserve it for Bureaucracy 5


dcp - Dec 08, 2008 5:36:25 pm PST #3391 of 6786
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

For the next Music thread title, I vote for "Buffista Music IV: Excuse me! Would you mind stopping that damn noise?"


Frankenbuddha - Dec 08, 2008 5:59:10 pm PST #3392 of 6786
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I second dcp's recommend (before any of the craxy - I say that with love - other suggestions come over from the music thread).


megan walker - Dec 08, 2008 6:09:07 pm PST #3393 of 6786
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Aren't we supposed to consense in-thread?


Frankenbuddha - Dec 08, 2008 6:24:30 pm PST #3394 of 6786
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

No - the thread naming decisions usually happen here (because the stompies make the final call).