Secret FB group - yes. It's an extension of the board and should be invite-only.

I agree with what seems to be the general consensus. FB group should be Secret and continue to be used as an annex to the main Board. I'm not comfortable with our FB group being visible to all of FB, nor with taking in new members randomly through FB.

I don't want to miss out on cool new people, either, though, so as long as our New Users function is borked, I'd support a brief questionnaire or some other screening tool for potential new members through FB, if that's what others want also.

With it marked Secret no one will see it unless one of us invites them in. It won't be a suggested group for people anymore.

I haven't had a Facebook account for a few years.

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).

I think amyth is right.

Not to mention, most people use some iteration of their real-life names on FB (including most Buffistas). While Buffistas aren't really a group where you see a lot of usernames of the Elmo_Pelt79 ilk, most people are less identifiable here, than over there.

I don't really know where I was going with that, except if I still had FB, I'd be fine with people who got to know me as Topic!Cindy over here, figuring out that in actuality, I'm really international supermodel Cindy Crawford.

But I wouldn't necessarily want everyone who follows me, international supermodel Cindy Crawford, to track me to B.org.

To "yes and" that thought, FB is a less-public forum than here, so I might (and have) put stuff up there that I wouldn't want to be findable in the way that posts on a public forum (like here) are.

Oh! We need to name a new Goodbye and Good Riddance thread! Bring on the good names!

I'll get the ball rolling.

Goodbye and Good Riddance 2018: Time to regenerate

This will be the 14th regeneration of the thread.

That's all I've got.

2018 has felt like the kind of year where you never know what will happen next, and not in a good way -- kind of like how 1968 must have felt to grown-ups.

So I offer: Goodbye and Good Riddance 2018: Good Lord, NOW What?

I like both of those suggestions.