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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.

Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura

Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina


Topic!Cindy - Dec 22, 2020 7:48:51 am PST #6627 of 6773
What is even happening?

On the old site , the lefthand sidebar had these links (if you weren't logged in):

Buffistas Home

Buffista FAQ
Board how-to
Site etiquette
Buffista Map
About this site
E-mail Admins

If you were logged in, I think you also saw Read New, Message Center, Profile, and Bookmarks links.

Wayback machine archive from October 27, 2020: [link]

We could ask Gud if this is something people could help with. It may not be complicated to create a page and populate it with content we've already written -- just time consuming.

Also, just as housekeeping: can any of the Stompies move closed threads to the closed thread folders?

I think DX used to handle that task. The Natter 76 and the 2019 Goodbye/Good Riddance threads need to move.


Dana - Dec 22, 2020 8:31:05 am PST #6628 of 6773
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I do see what looks like a way to upload pages. I can take a stab at it and hope that I don't break anything.


Topic!Cindy - Dec 22, 2020 9:24:11 am PST #6629 of 6773
What is even happening?

Beta.buffistas.me doesn't seem to be active. Is there a test/development site (or region on this site) where people can try out a thing?

I think Gud might have mentioned something about mods being able to upload files themselves?

There's probably something more recent, but I stumbled across something related in the Wayback archive from a couple of years ago. Gud said [link] :

If any admins want to edit/create static pages (FAQs, Etiquette, How-To, etc...) on the beta site, feel free to do so. I can save them off before the next database reset. It's in the 'Pages' section of the Admin Portal.

To anyone's recollection, did that ever happen?

Another housekeeping issue:

amych mentioned adding a link to GitLab in the BBaBB thread description, so it was readily available to people (to review which issues had already been reported, so we didn't duplicate; check the status known issues). Would a Stompy please add that link?

EDIT: GitLab known issues link is here and is accessible without a GitLab login: [link]

See also: move closed threads to the closed thread folders.

Per the Law-Speak document, we used to have something of a Stompy division of labor. [link]

HTML and FAQ maintenance (mainly Jon B.)
Buffista photogallery (Jon B.)
Coding, testing and webspace (ita)
Filk archive, thread archive (mainly DX)
Creating threads and editing thread titles (all)
stomp spammers without discussion (all) (See also discussion in Discipline)

Is division of labor something we can look at? Do we need to give some users some additional access to lighten the work load?

Maybe we could ask Gud for a list of tasks that [people who can't do what Gud can do] could do for him? I suspect we could knock off some of the less technical stuff.


juliana - Dec 25, 2020 5:57:06 pm PST #6630 of 6773
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Maybe we could ask Gud for a list of tasks that [people who can't do what Gud can do] could do for him? I suspect we could knock off some of the less technical stuff.

I would happily help with that. When Peanut is in school, I have about 3 hours of time where I still need to be present for her, but where I have the focus to knock out short tasks.


Jessica - Feb 11, 2021 7:10:34 am PST #6631 of 6773
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Anyone up for changing the name of the Jossverse thread?


Dana - Feb 11, 2021 7:13:37 am PST #6632 of 6773
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Yeah, I was thinking about that too.


Dana - Feb 11, 2021 7:15:03 am PST #6633 of 6773
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Though I'm not sure what we'd change it to. Maybe it just needs to be retired, and the various topics go to already existing threads? We've got Movies, we've got Streaming.


Jessica - Feb 11, 2021 7:24:42 am PST #6634 of 6773
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Maybe it just needs to be retired, and the various topics go to already existing threads? We've got Movies, we've got Streaming.

I was thinking this too. Between Movies, Streaming, Marvel, and B+A, I think we've got all possible discussion topics covered elsewhere.


Laura - Feb 11, 2021 8:06:25 am PST #6635 of 6773
Our wings are not tired.

I think retirement would be a good option. Close it. Archive it. Bye bye.

eta: should we vote - I mean we love to vote - but bs consensus is doable too


Jesse - Feb 11, 2021 8:08:14 am PST #6636 of 6773
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Totally agree. It's fair to say that we're not following his work because it's his work at this point.