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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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Topic!Cindy - Oct 02, 2018 12:14:55 pm PDT #6314 of 6786
What is even happening?

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.


DebetEsse - Oct 02, 2018 1:17:51 pm PDT #6315 of 6786
Woe to the fucking wicked.

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.


Laura - Nov 19, 2018 2:39:52 pm PST #6316 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.

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


Laura - Nov 19, 2018 2:52:42 pm PST #6317 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.

I'll get the ball rolling.

Goodbye and Good Riddance 2018: Time to regenerate


DXMachina - Nov 19, 2018 4:19:32 pm PST #6318 of 6786
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

This will be the 14th regeneration of the thread.

That's all I've got.


Fred Pete - Nov 20, 2018 2:47:25 am PST #6319 of 6786
Ann, that's a ferret.

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?


Zenkitty - Nov 20, 2018 3:39:45 am PST #6320 of 6786
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I like both of those suggestions.


-t - Nov 20, 2018 4:09:59 am PST #6321 of 6786
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I get the impulse, Fred Pete, but seeing that thread name would stress me out, I'm pretty sure. Too on the nose.


Laura - Nov 20, 2018 4:24:40 am PST #6322 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.

Goodbye and Good Riddance 2018: This is the Bad Place!


Deena - Nov 20, 2018 4:54:46 am PST #6323 of 6786
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Goodbye and Good Riddance 2018: Light Showers of Terror