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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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Una - May 11, 2015 2:08:22 pm PDT #5898 of 6786
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.

Super loving the preface idea!


Steph L. - May 11, 2015 2:10:59 pm PDT #5899 of 6786
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

We kind of loosely do that in Boxed Set already. It's not codified, though.


sj - May 11, 2015 2:36:13 pm PDT #5900 of 6786
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I'm pretty sure I brought up the idea of prefacing posts in the past, but it never went anywhere. I think it would make it so much easier to skip over posts for shows you don't watch or haven't watched yet.


Sophia Brooks - May 11, 2015 2:54:48 pm PDT #5901 of 6786
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Someone should make a proposal!


DXMachina - May 11, 2015 3:24:17 pm PDT #5902 of 6786
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I think you're probably joking, but I don't think you need a formal proposal for that. It's just asking people to be polite by identifying their posts.

Prefacing sounds fine to me, and it could be mentioned in the header.


sj - May 11, 2015 3:46:44 pm PDT #5903 of 6786
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Could it be added to the header of Boxed Set as well, without a proposal?


-t - May 11, 2015 3:56:34 pm PDT #5904 of 6786
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I can pretty much guarantee that I am going to forget to label my posts when a conversation gets going.


brenda m - May 11, 2015 5:16:00 pm PDT #5905 of 6786
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Yeah, that seems extreme for general convo. Maybe if something might be spoilery, but then why not just white font?


Steph L. - May 11, 2015 5:19:19 pm PDT #5906 of 6786
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I can pretty much guarantee that I am going to forget to label my posts when a conversation gets going.

When I do it in Boxed Set, I don't do it for every post, but I try to remember to do it if one show (say, Orphan Black) is being discussed, but I'm about to interrupt that flow by posting about a different show (like Arrow). But if people are already posting about Arrow and I'm going to join in, I wouldn't preface my post with "Arrow:".


omnis_audis - May 12, 2015 6:12:22 am PDT #5907 of 6786
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

When I do it in Boxed Set, I don't do it for every post, but I try to remember to do it if one show (say, Orphan Black) is being discussed, but I'm about to interrupt that flow by posting about a different show (like Arrow). But if people are already posting about Arrow and I'm going to join in, I wouldn't preface my post with "Arrow:".

:: nods head and thinks this makes perfect sense ::