No. And yes. It's always sudden.

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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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Sophia Brooks - Apr 30, 2015 10:41:46 am PDT #5832 of 6786
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I wish we had been able to have some more discussion about spoiler policy in general- I was just trying to go with what the most people seemed to want.

I think it would not apply to other threads, but we are not supposed to talk about MCU in other threads except comics?

I was thinking about proposing a more global discussion of spoiler policy now that everything is so different in terms of how we ingest media.


-t - Apr 30, 2015 10:45:36 am PDT #5833 of 6786
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I would like to have that discussion without the time limit maybe? Can we do that?


P.M. Marc - Apr 30, 2015 10:57:38 am PDT #5834 of 6786
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

If it wouldn't apply to other threads, what's the point of having it? I was offline for a lot of the prevote discussion, but I probably would have brought this up then. Especially when some of us are in comics fandom, so we might actually organically bring it up in conversations, because we do that a lot.

I think we do need a bigger picture spoiler discussion, because it just gets weird.


Sophia Brooks - Apr 30, 2015 11:09:52 am PDT #5835 of 6786
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I think it is moot that it doesn't apply to other threads, because there would be no MCU talk in there!

I think it is important to have a time limited discussion, but maybe we should extend the discussion time frame.

Let me think a bit and I will propose something, unless someone else wants to do it- the whole spoiler thing was makeung me crazy as you can see if you go into the thread!


-t - Apr 30, 2015 11:45:39 am PDT #5836 of 6786
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think it is moot that it doesn't apply to other threads, because there would be no MCU talk in there!

But comics could come up in any conversation. Have we had a rule or have people just been using their own judgment? I think I remember some Winter Soldier comic stuff being spoilerfonted in Movies, for example. And I appreciate that sort of thing, because while it's not really a spoiler as obviously the movies aren't necessarily gonna do what the comics did it is often more fun for me as someone who is not familiar with the comics to not have second-hand preconceptions. But does every mention of What Happened in Comics need to be spoilerfonted everywhere? Doubtful. And some places decidedly not.


Jon B. - Apr 30, 2015 11:51:10 am PDT #5837 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I would like to have that discussion without the time limit maybe? Can we do that?

We can discuss whatever we like for as long as we like. It's what we do. The four day time limit only comes up when someone makes a formal proposal with the required secondses.


-t - Apr 30, 2015 11:57:23 am PDT #5838 of 6786
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Thanks for the clarification, Jon.

Maybe hold off on that proposal a little while, Sophia?


P.M. Marc - Apr 30, 2015 12:11:52 pm PDT #5839 of 6786
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I think it is moot that it doesn't apply to other threads, because there would be no MCU talk in there!

We don't forbid talk of things outside their thread, though. Most of my MCU talk is probably still going to be in Fic, probably sometimes elsewhere if I am being general about What I Did This Week (aka, shallow movie talk)


Lee - May 01, 2015 8:55:44 am PDT #5840 of 6786
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Ok, so we need thread names, slugs, and descriptions (including spoiler policy) for the new threads.

For the streaming thread title, maybe something like

Streaming 1: There goes the weekend.


SailAweigh - May 01, 2015 11:14:45 am PDT #5841 of 6786
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Or: One bag of popcorn won't be enough.