The FAQ may have changed, but the spoiler policy is longstanding. It is grandfatherable. Someone show me when it wasn't the policy.

See my post above. I can't find any proof it did. Unless someone else finds it, I was wrong.

As far as anti-spoilers I relinquished them yesterday, took them off the table. So far, all the other Virgins have agreed with me. I wish people would stop bringing them up.

See my earlier post on this to you. I believe you will relinquish this. I do not believe that because you will, others will. In fact, we've been repeatedly reminded we can't guess how spoiled other people are, or what their opinions of spoilers are.

I am sorry to Trudy, brenda, Gar and whomever else my use of gerrymandering offended. I was offended to see this in Bureaucracy:

Trudy Booth "Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer" Jul 25, 2003 11:12:04 pm PDT

I need a stompie. Do I need a second and a third?

I move we close the lightbulb thread. The current topic, which proposes to change grandfathered policy, is (due to the preference of 84% of the voters) invalid for discussion until September 20th (or until such time as it's determined that this issue is not protected under the grandfather clause).

I was offended that you would make a middle of the night run to shut down a discussion. I might have been more open to the suggestion that this was done in the spirit of the grandfather clause, if it didn't come in the middle of the night after a whole day of discussion, and if it didn't come with a demand for stompy action.

Still, offending you (and anyone else) right back is no way to solve that, and I am sorry for the offense I've caused.

(edited to add a comma)

and to add...

brenda - that was a crosspost. I felt the way in which the grandfathering clause was brought to bureaucracy was dirty dealing in the middle of the night, like that.

It has been something of a shock to find that a thread full of people I am fond of has developed a culture where they sit around and rag on a group (including myself and many other long standing sorts) of Buffistas.

That means they have to find us a pre-March citation, where it was proposed that all official casting announcement that come from anywhere but TV promos are out of bounds as NAFDA acceptable sources for casting news.

I asked before, but I think it got lost in the flurry of posts. Do we have accessible archives other than at WX? Because I have vague memories of spoiler policy discussion, but I frankly don't know what all they contained. Either way, I'd like to be able to know for sure.

But in the meantime, I at least cannot get into our stuff at WX, and I think we need to if we're to get an answer to this question.

I was offended that you would make a middle of the night run to shut down a discussion.

We didn't slip in in the middle of the night to shut down a discussion. We had been discussing it for some time and it seemed to have reached a conclusion-- we'd hit the grandfather clause, it was time to close the thread.

brenda - that was a crosspost. I felt the way in which the grandfathering clause was brought to bureaucracy was dirty dealing in the middle of the night, like that.

Ah. I can see where it might have seemed that way. But honestly, the timing just reflected the fact that it was during late Friday night discussions that it came up.

It has been something of a shock to find that a thread full of people I am fond of has developed a culture where they sit around and rag on a group (including myself and many other long standing sorts) of Buffistas.

I remember saying (I think to brenda, in fact) that I love you and wouldn't want to spoil you, but that I disagreed with [the thing we're not going to bring up anymore].

I remember brenda telling me I have to take you at your word that you weren't spoiled for BCS, and me telling her you'd said earlier in the day that you'd been spoiled 3 times.

I don't remember people ragging on you. I do remember people being very venty about the spoiler squeeze, and I'm sure, if the times that people vented, you were one of the people squeezing, it must feel like a personal attack. If there were personal attacks made by me, I am sorry and ashamed. I don't think there were, but there might have been. If there were personal attacks made by others, and I was there and didn't speak up, I am sorry and ashamed for that too.

brenda and Plei's discussion about the underlying hostilities bothered me. I'm not saying they're not right. I am saying, I don't have that kind of clique identification here at b.org, personally. And any disagreement I have with you, or Elena, brenda or Jen over the spoiler policy, is based on the policy issues and how we work them in practice and in theory. Personally, you're all Buffistas I really like and admire. I couldn't say that about every random group of people, but in this case, it happens to be true, whether I agree with you on spoilers, or not.

In case I was unclear (and it seems I was) I mean the Spoilers thread.

We didn't slip in in the middle of the night to shut down a discussion. We had been discussing it for some time and it seemed to have reached a conclusion-- we'd hit the grandfather clause, it was time to close the thread.

You didn't slip in in the middle of the night, right. But you did demand a stompy in the middle of the night, instead of suggesting that you wait to continue, until people were around and could try to agree whether or not this was a grandfather issue.

Yep. I was following procedure as I saw it. And there were several stompies around.

Brenda pointed out the grandfather clause, since that point anti-spoilers, larger policy, etc. were being hashed again. The conversation, imho, needed to end and if people wanted to start a new one they could re-open the thread.

brenda and Plei's discussion about the underlying hostilities bothered me. I'm not saying they're not right. I am saying, I don't have that kind of clique identification here at b.org, personally. And any disagreement I have with you, or Elena, brenda or Jen over the spoiler policy

See, I don't THINK it's a clique identification issue. For me it's that, when I joined, and when a lot of people joined, there was a lot more wiggle room in terms of what you said and how. Things were relaxed (see Hec's drug law analogy), and now they aren't, and I'm baffled as the next person as to how that happened. I suppose I should re-read that damn article. So what's been building for me and a few other people I know of, and what I was referring to, is the gradual shift to letter-of-the-law interpretations of a number of things. Spoilers being one of them. It makes me feel uncomfortable, and I keep waiting for the next rule to tighten.