Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.

'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


Jon B. - Aug 15, 2007 7:13:06 am PDT #996 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I guess my point is that if you want to make it harder to create new threads, then removing NP as an option ain't the way to do it.


Zenkitty - Aug 15, 2007 7:25:22 am PDT #997 of 6786
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

FTR, I've never been offered either.

Hey, I wiggled my butt at you at the Prom!

I don't like tacos.

Well, guess what you get, then!

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.

Agree with this. There's a new season of new shows with fantasy/SF themes starting soon. Or, what Frank said.

I guess my point is that if you want to make it harder to create new threads, then removing NP as an option ain't the way to do it.

Would raising the quorum do it?


DebetEsse - Aug 15, 2007 7:30:25 am PDT #998 of 6786
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I think the Fall will help Boxed Set's momentum (although we're talking about new eps of Eureka to a decent extent.). There are just so many shows (like SG, DW, and Torchwood) that a substantial portion of the population has already seen before they air in the US, that they can't seem to get traction in discussion.

That and the consensus seems to be that FG is not, well, FG.


§ ita § - Aug 15, 2007 7:31:25 am PDT #999 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What does Heroes have to do with Boxed Set? Also, I've not yet felt the thread couldn't handle the amount of volume in it, so I had no great expectation of it breaking with Supernatural still in it.

We'll see what the fall brings.


Jon B. - Aug 15, 2007 7:33:15 am PDT #1000 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Would raising the quorum do it?

If your goal is to make it harder to create new threads, then certainly! For example, we could raise the quorum to 300 and we could be pretty sure that no new threads would be created.


Jon B. - Aug 15, 2007 7:34:10 am PDT #1001 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I had no great expectation of it breaking with Supernatural still in it.

For some of us, it had already broke. IJS.


§ ita § - Aug 15, 2007 7:44:50 am PDT #1002 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, but he was addressing *my* discontent, so that was what I was referring to.


P.M. Marc - Aug 15, 2007 7:48:02 am PDT #1003 of 6786
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It worked for some, didn't work for others. It did work for me, and now I'm not even in it, and unless something catches my eye next season that I feel hypercompelled to discuss, I won't be. Which makes me sad, even as I'm enjoying in-depth discussion of gender issues in the new thread.

No real point here, except to say that what's fixed for some is still broken for others.


Scrappy - Aug 15, 2007 7:52:15 am PDT #1004 of 6786
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Who ARE core Buffistas? I hear this term a lot but I think we may all have different definitions. Does core mean people who post a lot? People who do work like stompying? People who make noise in B'craxy? To me, the core is folks who would radically change my experience of the board if they stopped posting--posters like (off the top of my head) ita, Betsy, Hec, Teppy, Paperdol, Nilly, Erika, Aimee, KristinT, Jesse, GC, ND, JZ, MsBelle, Bon, Tommy, Frank, BillyT, Cindy, Connie, Cashmere, Flea and I know there are WAY more I am forgetting. I don't know what "Core" means to anyone else. For me, core is people who make my experience here as rich and fun as it is.


Jon B. - Aug 15, 2007 7:52:43 am PDT #1005 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Yeah, but he was addressing *my* discontent

Ahhh, got it.

what's fixed for some is still broken for others.

Sorry, Plei, didn't mean to open any old wounds.