What do you mean?
There are plenty of places on the net to have all kinds of conversations. Obviously people can discuss spoilers elsewhere. That's all I meant.
I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but he'd get it.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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
le nubian - Jul 18, 2007 4:14:42 pm PDT #90 of 6776
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
amych - Jul 18, 2007 4:15:35 pm PDT #91 of 6776
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I feel badly for the people who might want to discuss such things and have nowhere to do it.
If we'd said, oh, a month ago, "hey, I'll bet some crazy person is going to post photos of every page of HP and a massive kerfuffle will erupt about whether they're real or not; we can fit that into the spoilers thread, no?" I would've been all for discussing it with enough time for spoiler folk to weigh in, warning notices/jump links posted, etc. etc. etc.". At this point, I just have to say "what Jon said".
(Note: don't care one way or t'other about HP, but messing with spoiler policies on no notice is way bigger than what's covered in the previous consensus.) (And hey, nothing wrong with linking people to discussions elsewhere, as long as the links are marked as spoilery.)
brenda m - Jul 18, 2007 4:19:42 pm PDT #92 of 6776
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I think the only options are to open BC 2 right away, and probably retitle it HP SPOILERS AHOY SERIOUSLY YO (2), or to wait until midnight whichever night and just hold it until then. I don't have a dog in this fight, so I won't weigh in on which of those, but anything else is just open big ass cans of worms.
Dana - Jul 18, 2007 4:21:54 pm PDT #93 of 6776
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
This is like the prologue to the Potterdammerung.
Ginger - Jul 18, 2007 4:24:09 pm PDT #94 of 6776
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I had not thought my suggestion through and I have now joined the "no spoilers" club. I'm normally a spoiler whore, even for books, but this is a special occasion.
msbelle - Jul 18, 2007 4:27:17 pm PDT #95 of 6776
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
There have to be other places to discuss the spoilers. I kinda think we need to be ok with saying that about some things brought up.
It's two sides of the same coin to me, with the low # of yes/no voters on some recent issues.
why does this site have to house a thread for every discussion 10 people will vote yes for?
yes, hyperbole.
Vonnie K - Jul 18, 2007 4:29:59 pm PDT #96 of 6776
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
This is like the prologue to the Potterdammerung.
I have the Sigfried's Funeral Music on the stereo right now AIFG!!
Jesse - Jul 18, 2007 4:33:27 pm PDT #97 of 6776
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
POTTERDAMMERUNG!!
bon bon - Jul 18, 2007 4:33:46 pm PDT #98 of 6776
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
why does this site have to house a thread for every discussion 10 people will vote yes for?
Agree that we need to be ok saying we can't be all things to everyone, but it's hard to bring this up in practice. Everybody wants everyone else to be happy and we're getting to a tragedy of the commons here.
msbelle - Jul 18, 2007 4:35:12 pm PDT #99 of 6776
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Everybody wants everyone else to be happy
you just made me cackle out loud.