(and yeah, what amych said...get thee to Bitches!!)
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
Aims - May 05, 2003 12:48:39 pm PDT #1049 of 10289
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Beverly - May 05, 2003 12:49:09 pm PDT #1050 of 10289
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Betsy HP - May 05, 2003 12:51:44 pm PDT #1051 of 10289
If I only had a brain...
Like "Are you going to use this board for evil? Check yes or no." on the registration.
Followup "Do you mean cool evil (the kind with leather pants) or merely annoying evil (the kind with big hair and multiple personalities)?"
amych - May 05, 2003 12:53:07 pm PDT #1052 of 10289
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
that was pretty conclusively shouted down last time it was discussed.
I thought what was shouted down was a "complain to the stompies and get a ban" procedure that left out any public discussion or attempts to resolve things on-board. However, I could be misremembering.
I'm speaking only for myself here, but I can't really see the problem with someone writing to the stompies to say, "I don't feel safe bringing this up, but..." at which point, assuming that there have been attempts to resolve things in-thread, we could post in bureau on that person's behalf to get things rolling officially.
DXMachina - May 05, 2003 12:53:57 pm PDT #1053 of 10289
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Java, what amy said, which I'm saying a lot today. The proposal is not about problems with posters, it's about people who haven't registered at all.
Again, I did not propose that any specific threads be locked. The proposal is whether or not we should even have the ability to do it. I probably shouldn't have mentioned examples of threads that one might propose be locked. Even if we have the ability, we would still have to propose, discuss, and vote to lock a thread.
Lyra Jane - May 05, 2003 12:56:41 pm PDT #1054 of 10289
Up with the sun
I can't really see the problem with someone writing to the stompies to say, "I don't feel safe bringing this up, but..." at which point, assuming that there have been attempts to resolve things in-thread, we could post in bureau on that person's behalf to get things rolling officially.
From what I remember, there was a feeling that the problem with that was that the poster who was being discussed should know who they had offended.
Beverly - May 05, 2003 12:57:54 pm PDT #1055 of 10289
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Rather than locking an existing thread, what if we established a new reporting procedure? Cindy said:
I think we either need some sort of private thread to discuss our suspensions and bannings, or some other method.
What about an email account off-site?
Connie Neil - May 05, 2003 1:03:31 pm PDT #1056 of 10289
brillig
I just want to mention that Bitches is not really all full of the secrets that non-Bitches think it is
I don't know, the things I've learned about people moisturizing habits has been rather shocking.
But seriously, I'll be voting no. Anything to avoid the air of exclusivity. And if paying for access were ever proposed, even if I were to be grandfathered in, I'd be gone.
DXMachina - May 05, 2003 1:04:01 pm PDT #1057 of 10289
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
What about an email account off-site?
That really only applies to Cindy's situation. My concern is more with discussing things like what our response is to be when our hosting service screws us over, or we have to devise a response to two lurkers who are threatening the community.
Beverly - May 05, 2003 1:08:53 pm PDT #1058 of 10289
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
But--why wouldn't an off-site account or "thread," if you like, serve those purposes? Login password could be changed when a concensus was reached, and given only to registered Phoenix users who are interested in a given discussion. It sounds very neat and sequestered to me--
--and is that the problem? That, and I suspect it might be an admin nightmare.
Still, I'd prefer it to locking an onsite thread to all but a select few registered members.