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
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.
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'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.
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."
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.
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.
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?
and occasionally offer tacos and lapdances.
FTR, I've never been offered either. I'm just saying.
So where do we go from here? Now that we have all this information, what are we doing with it?
Personally I feel more open to single show threads. I do think we should change the quorum for votes - probably based on a percentage of active users or registered users or something like that.
I'd also argue for a cultural shift to drop No Preference options on thread creation votes. The idea being, "Let's go ahead and make new threads but it has to have enough votes to pass and the people that vote Yes should intend to use it."
Anyway, I took a peek at the Supernatural thread and it is
flying
along. Which I think is a good thing. I think the fandom element is still very strong glue for this community even if we don't have just one fandom to focus on anymore. It's as strong a bond as the social ones.
