Okay, so we've not only had this conversation many times already, but we've already done the poll too?
one word: muffaletta.
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Okay, so we've not only had this conversation many times already, but we've already done the poll too?
one word: muffaletta.
We've done A poll before. it doesn't look like the one being proposed now. ANd honestly. only 2 questions on tv is what that last poll was. nothing like what at least I am suggesting.
Excuse me for interrupting here, but what were the results of our last vote?
Well, the last Lightbulbs discussion didn't come to a vote, yet. We decided we wanted to talk more. Actually I thought we were taking a rest before talking more, but I was apparently mistaken.
good grief, I read press all the time, and I missed that! I've been looking for the thread for almost 2 weeks.
Askye hits it, for me. I--and others--have been proceeding on the assumption that Natter, Bitches, possibly Music and Other Media, as well as a tv thread or two is the core Buffista experience.
What if that's not the majority experience? What if only 60-70 people--very vocal people--use the board that way, and there are a couple hundred who check in every day to monitor Minearverse or Boxed Set, mostly lurk, may occasionally post in those threads, and go nowhere else on the board? They never interact outside the threads that interest them, and have no wish to. Their experience is the discussion of a couple of narrow points of focus, not a broad range of people and subject.
I think it's premature to get worked up over that possibility. We should see what the majority says and hold the concern unless and until the results seem skewed from the prevalent opinions among the long-time community members. I feel I should point out that even the long-time community members seem to be far from consensus about what the board is and should be.
I'm fairly opposed to changing the user experience here to fit a possibly larger group of casual users (non bureaucrats and nonvoters). In fact this suggestion is making me kind of ill, but I don't want to be passive aggressive about it. Also I know this tension has been expressed uncounted times here. I find this Clay Shirky article fairly persuasive, though I'm not sure how persuasive others will: [link]
If we want to alienate the users that make this community, allowing casual users to trump is a good way to go about it.
I am compiling some of the posts about polls from 7/30 evening until now.