I did a rewrite at some point, but nothing ever went anywhere. maybe I'll dig around my hard drive this weekend and see if I can find anything.
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
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msbelle - Jan 17, 2014 6:23:47 pm PST #5571 of 6786
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Frankenbuddha - Jan 17, 2014 8:03:16 pm PST #5572 of 6786
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Err, I was joking about that. I'm so bad at Facebook I don't like a ton of things I should.
Cass - Jan 18, 2014 3:36:14 pm PST #5573 of 6786
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I wouldn't tell people they have to read the FAQ.
Agreed.
DCJensen - Jan 18, 2014 9:48:09 pm PST #5574 of 6786
All is well that ends in pizza.
At the very least until it's updated.
You could also put each sentence on its own line.
A community originally founded on discussions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.
Now tackling every subject with the same humor, intelligence, and obsessiveness.
Zenkitty - Jan 19, 2014 1:56:56 am PST #5575 of 6786
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm for an update. You could just say something like "we have a helpful FAQ". IME people who will read the FAQ will read it, and people who won't won't, regardless of whether you tell them to. So maybe just letting people know it's there is enough.
Jesse - Jan 19, 2014 4:23:37 am PST #5576 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There is no way that even a wholesale updating of that FAQ would be necessary for someone to do before posting. I have no problem with it as a document, I just don't want to tell people to read it before posting. And updating is a huge task that various people have tried to take on without success.
Beverly - Jan 19, 2014 9:53:04 am PST #5577 of 6786
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
"If you're interested in the history of the community, you might want to take a look at the FAQ."?
Jessica - Jan 19, 2014 9:56:31 am PST #5578 of 6786
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The FAQ was originally useful for letting people decode our show-based lingo - at least half of it is explaining characters' nicknames. Now that we're a general-purpose internet community, I don't feel like that sort of thing comes up as often.
That said, I love the FAQ and read the whole thing last night and then got sucked into the BRQG for like an hour when I should have been sleeping. So I don't want it to go anywhere, but I'm not sure it's a necessary prereq for understanding any of the conversations happening now.
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2014 11:06:45 am PST #5579 of 6786
brillig
How does the BRQG get updated?
aurelia - Jan 19, 2014 7:19:41 pm PST #5580 of 6786
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Perhaps it should say "Read our site etiquette" instead of FAQ.