Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.

'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


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.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 15, 2007 2:11:40 am PDT #975 of 6786
What is even happening?

I'm now really curious what people who are so bitter about the so-called "core" Buffistas get out of the board. I mean, if you're that angry, why are you even here?

I know. It made me sad to read -- especially the third comment (I think -- the one about agenda) on the last open response. I know I got a little snipey in the conversation here, leading up to the poll, but I'm pretty transparent, and b.org and I were on a break (much of the entire internet and I are on a bit of a break right now) at the time, and made sure to say so (here, at the time, not in the poll, I'll stop getting parenthetical, now).

The poll was awesome, y'all. Thank you so much for compiling and running it. I'll repeat my own comment here, without botching the wording, the way I did when I answered it on the poll.

In one section, we were asked which specific threads are important to our experience at b.org. I would have liked a similar question asking which types of threads (TV buckets, single TV show threads, Natter-y threads, etc.) are important to my experience. I guess we kind of answered that in question 3. I just felt question 5 was asking me the wrong question, because right now, we have few threads for shows I love, and TV is one of the reasons I post here. We can already tell which specific threads get the most use by looking at the board.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 15, 2007 3:57:19 am PDT #976 of 6786
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Definite thanks to everyone who had a hand in the poll. The results were quite interesting, as were the comments. I'm trying to remember if I added a comment myself - nothing pinged me when I read the comments last night. I should probably check again.


Aims - Aug 15, 2007 4:13:21 am PDT #977 of 6786
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I just want to go on record that the answer #3 to question 12 was *not* me.

However, if it was you, email me and I'll send you a dollar.

I'll probably have more to say about the actual answers after I stop laughing and thinking up what caxy threads I am going to be decreeing.


§ ita § - Aug 15, 2007 4:28:58 am PDT #978 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Three more people and you can take it to a vote, Sean.


billytea - Aug 15, 2007 4:32:24 am PDT #979 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.

How badly will I be harmed if I second this proposal?

If ita promises not to hurt you, make sure she pinky-swears.