Xander ,'Selfless'
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!
as for draining interesting talk out of Natter, this might give those of us who have no hope of keeping up with Natter a chance to take part in interesting topics. And if it is divisive and flamebaity there, it'll be divisive and flamebaity anywhere. Better to have a concrete bunker for such things than an unsuspecting front parlor.
Seconds on the innocuous name/anonymity thoughts. Those of us who care will find it.
And could I use any more adverbs? Surely not.
This would remove one more substantial topic of discussion.
It would, but it would also get it out of the threads where the discussion really doesn't belong.
It would, but it would also get it out of the threads where the discussion really doesn't belong.
That would require enforcement, though. People will have to be reminded "don't talk about that here! That's why we have a politics thread!"
People will have to be reminded "don't talk about that here! That's why we have a politics thread!"
True. But I've seen posters who'll be discussing something in one thread and say, "Whups. Let's move it here."
People will have to be reminded "don't talk about that here! That's why we have a politics thread!"
To an extent, this already happens. In the show threads, people will say "take it to Natter" from time to time.
It doesn't often work, but that's another issue.
Can we reference The Cutting Edge into the thread title?
So every time another thread drifts, we can just say, "Toepick."
So every time another thread drifts, we can just say, "Toepick."
Oh. My. Yes.
BWHAHAHA! I like it.
I think this is a good idea. Things have gotten quite heated in Natter and Bitches at times over political stuff to the point that folks have run away from Natter or Bitches to avoid it.
Also, I think it might be a good idea to move some of the posting volume out of Natter. It seems in the past year that as we've grown in number of posters it has gotten more and more difficult to keep up to any degree in Natter. Many many days are 500+ posts. I don't have that kind of free time very often. I love keeping up with folks and chatting away in there, but that's so hard to do with hundreds of posts flying by in an afternoon. I don't see cutting down the number of posts in Natter as a bad thing.