I'll be in my bunk.

Jayne ,'War Stories'


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


§ ita § - Aug 14, 2007 7:06:07 pm PDT #932 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I read boards where I don't quite like anyone. I'm okay with people feeling that way about me, and even being vocal about it.

I loved reading the words of people I don't know, of whom I've never read. The idea that the board serves a long term purpose for people who never say anything...I am fascinated.


Liese S. - Aug 14, 2007 7:09:53 pm PDT #933 of 6786
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yup. Totally awesome. And lurkers should feel welcome, but totally not pressured into doing anything other than lurking if they like.

Also, I've had a rather nice turkey tetrazzini, and am now feeling quite sprightly, so I edited the table in order of weighted total. Liese S. "Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job" Aug 14, 2007 6:38:01 pm PDT


Consuela - Aug 14, 2007 7:33:00 pm PDT #934 of 6786
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The idea that the board serves a long term purpose for people who never say anything...I am fascinated.

Yeah. Hey, lurkers, please don't take a failure to respond right away as a dis! Sometimes nobody responds to me, either, and I have been here since before the oceans cooled. I would recommend that jumping into a thread which is not Natter or Bitches is probably your best bet for entering the conversation, though: those threads are fast-moving (rather like whitewater)...


Sean K - Aug 14, 2007 7:37:09 pm PDT #935 of 6786
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Sorry about the, err, dissertation. My opinion, let me show you it.

You were my top suspect for that long entry.


Liese S. - Aug 14, 2007 7:37:59 pm PDT #936 of 6786
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ha. I figured someone would out me sooner or later, so I might as well fess up.


Scrappy - Aug 14, 2007 7:45:10 pm PDT #937 of 6786
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I think de-lurking is hard, so I can see that working up the courage to post and then not being noticed can feel like a dis. However, so many of my favorite Buffistas have delurked and started participating since I started here, and my life would be far less fun and interesting if they hadn't stuck around.


Strega - Aug 14, 2007 7:52:39 pm PDT #938 of 6786

The idea that the board serves a long term purpose for people who never say anything...I am fascinated.

I lurked for years. I don't know if anyone's ever mentioned it, but you're extremely funny people. When Buffy was on I would email Johanna my favorite posts from TWoP & here.

I wish I still had those. Ooh, maybe they're on my work computer. Hmm.


meara - Aug 14, 2007 7:54:22 pm PDT #939 of 6786

I lurked for years. I don't know if anyone's ever mentioned it, but you're extremely funny people. When Buffy was on I would email Johanna my favorite posts from TWoP & here.

Heh. I met you once at a TWOP karaoke thing at Freddie's bar in Crystal City--I had no idea it was going on, but the friend I met there was all "OMG! It's TWOP people!". And I was so shocked you knew who we were. ;)


Connie Neil - Aug 14, 2007 7:55:38 pm PDT #940 of 6786
brillig

I mean, if you're that angry, why are you even here?

They're probably here for the one or two threads and the group of people in those threads that interest them. I was surprised myself with the degree that the TV threads are as big a draw as the social threads.

I'm disturbed by the trend of "Oh, they don't see things the way we do, they're just bitter and mean spirited" I'm seeing. It's leaning too close to "America, love it or leave it" for me. They say the things they do because they care about the board enough to point out where they think things could be better.


Laura - Aug 14, 2007 7:59:47 pm PDT #941 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.

This was my first board so I didn't know about lurking. I just jumped in and posted. Ignorance being bliss. You post something and it gets skipped over then 20 posts later someone else says the same thing and it gets attention. Like the dude in the FedEx commercial. It happens.

I'm very vocal in a number of threads. Other threads I lurk because I find the conversation interesting but don't have anything to say.

It doesn't matter to my use of the board that some people lurk and never post, as out of sight out of mind. But it pleases me at some level that the board serves these users too. And they are there to add to the numbers for Buffista World Domination.