SOMEONE NEEDS TO WHITEFONT IN 3236
(It's one thing having to stay out of Angel, but everybody needs to be able to participate in this thread)
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
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!
Trudy Booth - Aug 21, 2003 3:28:19 pm PDT #3250 of 10289
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Wolfram - Aug 21, 2003 3:34:19 pm PDT #3251 of 10289
Visilurking
Trudy, you should post that in B'cy.
Michele T. - Aug 21, 2003 3:53:17 pm PDT #3252 of 10289
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I'm in favor of thread consolidation and housekeeping: I have been in favor of combining PPO and Bitchy Fic since we moved to the Phoenix Board. I am vehemently against getting rid of Music, which is a relatively low-volume thread and fulfills a specific need. Vehemently is not even a strong enough word for how opposed I am.
Let's just do the consolidation of threads that people can agree are consolidateable and the code clean-up, and take it from there. ita, can you send the code to the same address you sent the ERD to for me, please?
Kat - Aug 21, 2003 4:07:23 pm PDT #3253 of 10289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Just to be clear of what is actually on this ballot:
Kat "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Aug 21, 2003 11:30:27 am PDT
Also we are trying to figure out what is able to be consolidated by voting on it. Currently, neither literary nor music are on it as open for consolidation.
I'm not saying music or literary are going to be on it, but if they were and the majority voted to keep them, then it seems clear they would stay open.
Also, just a note: I love the subcommunitiness of the Phoenix. But as subcommunities, they are, by name, only small pieces of the larger community.
I think that as we continue to contemplate what we do and what we want to be, that we strike a balance between looking at the community-at-large and the subcommunities. In other words, at no point should the community-at-large have all power. Nor should we as an entire community defer each time subcommunity status is claimed. We need a sort of federal system.
Or something like that.
Also we don't have a ballot counter.
Also, I'm shying away from no opinion. No opinion? Then don't vote on that item.
Jon B. - Aug 21, 2003 4:13:00 pm PDT #3254 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I whitefonted the NAFDA part of sumi's post, Trudy. Good catch.
Monique -- You and Kristen need to be consistant.
I reread Monique's post and I am a dum-dum. I was rushing out the door when I read it the first time and thought she was advocating more radical thread trimming than what Kat had proposed. In rereading, I have no idea how I came to that conclusion. Apologies.
As for the Great Previously Debate, I think Cindy & I have different definitions of "redundant." Ideally, we'd have one previously thread for Buffy and Angel, and one thread for new Angels, but since there is a sentimental desire to keep a thread named "Buffy", I think we should keep Buffy, Angel, and Previously.
Trudy Booth - Aug 21, 2003 4:17:31 pm PDT #3255 of 10289
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
How about something like: Previously, on Buffy (oh, and Angel)
Jon B. - Aug 21, 2003 4:21:43 pm PDT #3256 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That's fine, Trudy, if folks want to dump the regular Buffy thread. But I don't think people want to do that (and I tend to agree with them).
askye - Aug 21, 2003 4:25:54 pm PDT #3257 of 10289
Thrive to spite them
Trudy Booth - Aug 21, 2003 4:26:17 pm PDT #3258 of 10289
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Maybe A Buffy Forever and Always thread in lieu of the bunch we have now?
DXMachina - Aug 21, 2003 4:32:22 pm PDT #3259 of 10289
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We keep talking about redundancies and combining threads but there is no reason to have a Previously thread that's just about Buffy and a Buffy thread when there are no new Buffy episodes. That's two threads talking about the exact same topic right there.
There seems to be a lot of agreement with that. The current proposal is to either discontinue the Previously thread, or if not convert it to a Previously on Angel thread, to reflect the fact that Angel starts syndication in the fall.