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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
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
For the time being I changed it to Secret with the assumption that the change will keep FB from suggesting people join.
I still think the subject of new members is one to be discussed. Some of the pending requests look like people with shared interests.
It has been quite a long time since the new user function has worked here.
I didn't realize new users couldn't sign up here.
I agree with changing the FB to secret, at least for now. It does seem backward for someone to sign up there not having checked us out here first.
I agree with going Secret for now as a least-possible-damage quick fix until we've had a chance to discuss.
I also prefer Secret for the long term, because (a) the facebook group is an auxiliary to the board and not a general-purpose Buffy discussion group, and I can easily imagine a future where a ton of people come in that way and the fb _loses_ the usefulness it currently has for "is the board down" and "hey, if you haven't checked in for a while, please check Beep Me", and (b) facebook is a motherfucking cesspool of toxicity and actual evil, perhaps even a hellmouth, so I'd rather not see it become a primary discussion place with a whole different but overlapping crew of people (however lovely they may be).
Note that the latter is totally a just my opinion thing.
If FB is just an annex of the main board, I'm good with Secret.
I agree with going Secret for now as a least-possible-damage quick fix until we've had a chance to discuss.
I also prefer Secret for the long term, because (a) the facebook group is an auxiliary to the board and not a general-purpose Buffy discussion group, and I can easily imagine a future where a ton of people come in that way and the fb _loses_ the usefulness it currently has for "is the board down" and "hey, if you haven't checked in for a while, please check Beep Me", and (b) facebook is a motherfucking cesspool of toxicity and actual evil, perhaps even a hellmouth, so I'd rather not see it become a primary discussion place with a whole different but overlapping crew of people (however lovely they may be).
Completely agree with all of the above. The FB group is just a place where we sometimes post pictures and such to supplement our real board.
I agree with Pix and pretty much everyone else, it seems.
In other news: Delurking thread?
Looks like Delurking is actually still open from last year.
Oh, right, October! Hooray delurking!
I'm very much in favor of keeping the FB group auxiliary and "secret", so far as I understand FB's use of secret/open/closed. I'm also in favor of fixing the registration, or finding a workaround to allow for new registrations in some manner. I have no idea how to do that, of course, but if it's something that could be managed manually as a stopgap I wouldn't mind doing something to help with that.
What amych said.