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Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!

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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!

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erinaceous - Jan 29, 2004 1:38:45 pm PST #3477 of 10289

A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.

That's 1) or 2), erinaceous? I doubt any of my posts'd be long enough to qualify, but I am 2) and not 1).

Yep, 1 OR 2. And the corpus is supposed to cover American and North American English, both. I'm not sure if they're tagging Canadian material, or just hoping it will sort itself out ... poor Canadians, they're always caught between the Brits and the Yanks ...

Anyway, this will all be marked "online", so it's not as cut-and-dried as it would be if I were soliciting published novels ...

moonlit - Jan 29, 2004 6:38:53 pm PST #3478 of 10289

"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell

So, do UnAms vote?

Jon B. - Jan 29, 2004 6:45:05 pm PST #3479 of 10289

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I'd say yes. The board is "owned" by ALL its users. Everyone should have a say, even if not everyone's posts will be used.

erinaceous - Jan 29, 2004 7:55:01 pm PST #3480 of 10289

A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.

Yes, please, the unAms should vote! Nobody should be disenfranchised just because they put extra 'u's in things.

Trudy Booth - Jan 29, 2004 10:49:51 pm PST #3481 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

Nobody should be disenfranchised just because they put extra 'u's in things.

Well, not this time.... t sighhhhhhhhhhhh

Megan E. - Jan 30, 2004 12:52:08 am PST #3482 of 10289

Nobody should be disenfranchised just because they put extra 'u's in things.

Just make sure you don't use a butterfly ballot.

Michele T. - Jan 30, 2004 5:10:03 am PST #3483 of 10289

with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Isn't the Fan Fiction thread for *discussion* of fanfiction, rather than posting of it? You should be able to use that thread, if not either of the workshop threads then, no?

Other than that, I love this idea.

§ ita § - Jan 30, 2004 5:11:20 am PST #3484 of 10289

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Isn't the Fan Fiction thread for *discussion* of fanfiction, rather than posting of it?

Quotes would have to be stripped, since fic is quoted there (in smaller amounts than the workshop threads, natch).

Quotes are being stripped, right? I'm not sure if most of the snippets in thread are using the caret for demarcation.

erinaceous - Jan 30, 2004 6:54:01 am PST #3485 of 10289

A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.

I'm still trying to figure out how quotes would be stripped. It may not be possible.

I'll have to take a look at the Fanfic thread (I don't go in there much). It would be nice to get cites for OTP, Mary Sue, & slash ...

Dana - Jan 30, 2004 7:02:02 am PST #3486 of 10289

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It would be nice to get cites for OTP, Mary Sue, & slash ...

Of course, those are terms that originated in fandom, rather than in Buffista land, and they're used in certain contexts here which don't necessarily represent the full usage in the wide world of fandom...

This is complicated.

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