I have serious concerns about what the addition of a new thread is going to do to our resource usage.
If this is even remotely an issue, I think we should nix the new thread, as much as I would like a TV thread.
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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!
Sean K - Aug 18, 2003 9:05:31 pm PDT #2826 of 10289
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Consuela - Aug 18, 2003 9:07:10 pm PDT #2827 of 10289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm more concerned about the technical issues right now than anything else. If adding a new thread is actually going to cause problems for board functionality, then I think that we should look seriously at thread consolidation and so forth.
Which, yes, does get us back to "who are we and where are we going" as well. Sigh.
Aims - Aug 18, 2003 9:09:16 pm PDT #2828 of 10289
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I thought that if there was a new thread, it would be after the Buffy ones were consolidated.
I'm probably wrong.
But, if that were the case, would that help as far as technical issues and not be an additional drain?
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2003 9:11:50 pm PDT #2829 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
would that help as far as technical issues and not be an additional drain?
Probably not, since it's increased posting and reading (resulting from the new thread) that'll be the drain, not the number of threads that exist.
Allyson - Aug 18, 2003 9:12:25 pm PDT #2830 of 10289
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Because I'm all about the doomsday, do we need to do a fundraising drive to in case we need to go dedicated come the Fall teevee season?
Should we prepare ourselves for the Worst Case Scenario?
Allyson - Aug 18, 2003 9:17:18 pm PDT #2831 of 10289
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
not the number of threads that exist.
If the number of people who sign on to lurk and participate in Buffistadom increases due to new threads for discussion, that could cause board fuckage. But that's just theory. I have no proof that there will suddenly be a big jump in people participating due to a general teevee thread, and am just talking out of my ass.
Kristen - Aug 18, 2003 9:18:31 pm PDT #2832 of 10289
Will thread consolidation help? i.e., withdraw thread proposals in favor of board health, do the tightening up of threads, check our pulse with frequency, and then discuss threads we may want, someday in the future?
From where I stand? Yes.
My personal preference would be that we not discuss adding any new threads until, at least, mid to late October. That would give us time to resolve the technical issues, see what happens when Angel premieres and figure out what threads we're closing and what impact those closures will have. Then, if people really feel that a TV thread is needed, we discuss at that time, having a better grasp of the situation.
My fear is that the TV thread will quickly develop into its own subcommunity, much like what I'm told movies and music did. So then we've closed a few threads that weren't getting that much traffic to begin with, Natter doesn't slow down [because I think we can all agree it's unslowable] and an entirely new thread takes off. This concerns me.
Aims - Aug 18, 2003 9:39:11 pm PDT #2833 of 10289
Shit's all sorts of different now.
So then we've closed a few threads that weren't getting that much traffic to begin with, Natter doesn't slow down [because I think we can all agree it's unslowable] and an entirely new thread takes off.
Ah. Got it.
Noumenon - Aug 18, 2003 9:56:54 pm PDT #2834 of 10289
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I'm concerned that we might end up with a 6-month moratorium on a TV thread because of technical thread-creation issues. How about having an option for, "Create a TV thread, but on probation. This means that the thread will be closed if it causes us to exceed our limits on bandwidth or SQL connections, and re-opened if we find a solution to these problems."
Noumenon - Aug 18, 2003 10:08:41 pm PDT #2835 of 10289
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I've always been interested in talking about other shows. Which is why I do it elsewhere, because I don't need to do it here,
I was impressed by the number of conversations you participate in here. Of course, I would be, since it took me eight minutes to compose this post, but wow. It's like the way Emeril can cook three courses in the time it takes me to cook from "A Man, A Plan, A Can."