I didn't realize new users couldn't sign up here.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
sj - Oct 01, 2018 12:40:40 pm PDT #6299 of 6786
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Beverly - Oct 01, 2018 12:56:14 pm PDT #6300 of 6786
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
amych - Oct 01, 2018 2:19:44 pm PDT #6301 of 6786
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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.
Connie Neil - Oct 01, 2018 3:02:44 pm PDT #6302 of 6786
brillig
If FB is just an annex of the main board, I'm good with Secret.
Pix - Oct 01, 2018 3:52:49 pm PDT #6303 of 6786
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
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.
Kate P. - Oct 01, 2018 5:02:46 pm PDT #6304 of 6786
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I agree with Pix and pretty much everyone else, it seems.
In other news: Delurking thread?
Dana - Oct 01, 2018 5:10:05 pm PDT #6305 of 6786
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Looks like Delurking is actually still open from last year.
-t - Oct 01, 2018 5:14:45 pm PDT #6306 of 6786
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
smonster - Oct 02, 2018 2:36:41 am PDT #6307 of 6786
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
What amych said.
Gudanov - Oct 02, 2018 4:43:54 am PDT #6308 of 6786
Coding and Sleeping
Sorry about new user registration being broken. Once the new board is up, that will be fixed. Unfortunately, I'm working nearly solo on a critical project at work that's taking up the time I need to be spending on my other critical project at work.