Three more people and you can take it to a vote, Sean.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
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 15, 2007 4:28:58 am PDT #978 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Nutty - Aug 15, 2007 4:35:36 am PDT #980 of 6786
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
People! People! Do you NOT remember Miracle Max?
By definition, if you answered the poll, you are not really dead a lurker. You're only
mostly
dead a lurker. We have some chocolate-covered pills to cure that condition!
Seriously. Lurkers don't matter because they never say what they're thinking. We literally can't know they exist (or figuratively can't know, if they backchannel), and on the internet, if nobody knows you're there, you're not actually there. The moment you tell people what you're thinking, even if you only do it in years with sevens in them and only because somebody asked you nicely, you stop being a lurker and become "taciturn."
The strong silent type, really. I think Clint Eastwood is here.
t pedant
Laura - Aug 15, 2007 4:57:20 am PDT #981 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.
'Cept we'd probably start posting in it and spoil the joke.
It could be the all whitefont all the time thread.
Lurkers don't matter because they never say what they're thinking.
This. In past votes the number of participants has approximated the number of active participants in right hand threads. This poll is the first time I've seen lurkers chime in with responses. I don't think the added participation changed the % in the responses. So let 'em lurk.
Cashmere - Aug 15, 2007 5:05:42 am PDT #982 of 6786
Now tagless for your comfort.
The moment you tell people what you're thinking, even if you only do it in years with sevens in them and only because somebody asked you nicely, you stop being a lurker and become "taciturn."
If it happens in Bureaucracy, I'm going to label them "stoic."
lisah - Aug 15, 2007 6:06:45 am PDT #983 of 6786
Punishingly Intricate
thanks again for the poll, poll-makin' people! it really is fascinating! My favorite comment was the one about having Certain People decide things. too funny. I wish Certain People would make all my life decisions for me sometimes.
Beverly - Aug 15, 2007 6:23:41 am PDT #984 of 6786
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
If it happens in Bureaucracy, I'm going to label them "stoic."
Or laconic.
Connie Neil - Aug 15, 2007 6:26:44 am PDT #985 of 6786
brillig
Or laconic.
Yeah.
Vortex - Aug 15, 2007 6:35:09 am PDT #986 of 6786
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Lurkers don't matter because they never say what they're thinking.
eh, I think that this is harsh. IMO, it's not that they don't matter, it's that we can't take their preferences into account because we don't know what they are. So, what they think doesn't matter, but they matter as people. In email.
Zenkitty - Aug 15, 2007 6:36:26 am PDT #987 of 6786
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I was laconic once.
I don't feel like I'm a Core Buffista. I think I hang around on the fringe of the Core - in the Black, as it were - and occasionally offer tacos and lapdances.
Also want to offer thanks to everyone who worked on the poll.
So where do we go from here? Now that we have all this information, what are we doing with it?