Or laconic.
Yeah.
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
Connie Neil - Aug 15, 2007 6:26:44 am PDT #985 of 6786
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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?
Vortex - Aug 15, 2007 6:41:31 am PDT #988 of 6786
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
and occasionally offer tacos and lapdances.
FTR, I've never been offered either. I'm just saying.
DavidS - Aug 15, 2007 6:47:39 am PDT #989 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
§ ita § - Aug 15, 2007 6:48:00 am PDT #990 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The debate about mattering is semantic. Have no impact, cannot really be considered, but I'm guessing no one here is judging lurkers as people-just separating participants from non-.
Beverly - Aug 15, 2007 6:48:10 am PDT #991 of 6786
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I don't like tacos.
§ ita § - Aug 15, 2007 6:49:19 am PDT #992 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Serial: Supernatural is flying, but Boxed Set is quieter, it feels. Not so happy with that.
DavidS - Aug 15, 2007 7:01:25 am PDT #993 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Serial: Supernatural is flying, but Boxed Set is quieter, it feels. Not so happy with that.
True dat. Especially since the poll showed that Boxed Set is Thread #3.
But I think the nature of Boxed Set is such that another show will catch fire and re-energize it. The flipside is I don't think Boxed Set could handle the volume of both Heroes and Supernatural starting new seasons.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 15, 2007 7:06:02 am PDT #994 of 6786
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
This fall season looks like it has the potential of one or two shows that might liven up Boxed Set. Plus Torchwood coming to BBCA will probably add as well.
I mean, it's pretty much just Eureka and Dr. Who at this point for anything "new" that's airing (quotes due to Dr. Who being on it's second round of newness).