We don't do anything willy nilly. We're incapable.
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
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
Allyson - Aug 14, 2007 10:27:12 pm PDT #965 of 6786
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Allyson - Aug 14, 2007 10:28:41 pm PDT #966 of 6786
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
No actions, just shooting the "who we are and why I need to state my opinion for no apparent reason other than to watch myself type" shit. That's what I'm doing, anyway.
Wait, is everyone else serious?
Heh.
§ ita § - Aug 14, 2007 10:29:47 pm PDT #967 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We don't do anything willy nilly. We're incapable.
See above for extension of the discussion period for connie's vote.
I'm not judging the call--just describing it as ad hoc and not de jure.
Pix - Aug 14, 2007 10:29:47 pm PDT #968 of 6786
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I'm thinking that we'd not let something like that happen. If enough people who actually post the entertainment felt the board was starting to blow, we'd make whatever changes were necessary to keep us together and afloat.
I couldn't agree with this more.
But I stand by my point. Members are members, and the distinction between a registered poster's vote and a registered non-poster's vote should always stand.
But I agree with this too. At the risk of sounding like an utter sap, I have to quote Churchill: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
Allyson - Aug 14, 2007 10:30:54 pm PDT #969 of 6786
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
In general, lurkers are pretty nice to me in email, though none have supported my statement that they only get one third a vote, and not even the bullshit promise of 40 acres and a mule.
Allyson - Aug 14, 2007 10:31:43 pm PDT #970 of 6786
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yet.
bon bon - Aug 14, 2007 10:49:33 pm PDT #971 of 6786
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
No actions, just shooting the "who we are and why I need to state my opinion for no apparent reason other than to watch myself type" shit. That's what I'm doing, anyway.
Oh, so you've been to bureau before.
billytea - Aug 14, 2007 10:56:31 pm PDT #972 of 6786
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Oh, so you've been to bureau before.
Yup. But curiously, I've never been to me.
Sean K - Aug 14, 2007 11:12:20 pm PDT #973 of 6786
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Don't make me propose a thread discussing all ita, all the time, called, "Jamaican Me Crazy 1: A discussion of how wrong ita is."
How badly will I be harmed if I second this proposal?
Jessica - Aug 15, 2007 1:21:57 am PDT #974 of 6786
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I mean, seriously, would we create an entire thread for lurkers to stare at white space?
Ooh, can we? It could be like one of those pages in official documents that say "This page intentionally left blank."
'Cept we'd probably start posting in it and spoil the joke.
On the topic at hand, there were only two or three comments that really made me bristle, but I didn't assume any of them were from lurkers unless they were specifically signed that way. Most of them were just repeating things people have already said here.