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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!
No Hil, that's what I meant.
ETA- actually perhaps a little deeper than characters and plot. Interpretations, meanings (in all forms) is more what I was going for.
I think I use "I like it" "Me too" as shorthand for the surface discussions that go on in there mostly.
Okay, wow.
It seems I stated it too harshly, but no -- sometimes one is just wrong. And that one certainly includes myself -- I've been wrong right here in the last hour.
The fact that you mistakenly thought most threads didn't get created means ... it means you mistakenly thought most threads didn't get created. That's ALL. It does not speak to the strength or prevalence of an anti-proliferation group.
It just means you were mistaken.
And to think my primary participation in this discussion was to comment about differences in perception, and now I'm getting the big smackdown for it?
No, you claimed that more threads had been prevented by anti-proliferationista arguments than had actually happened. The numbers don't support you, therefore, your number-based assertion was wrong.
How is that a smackdown?
I should probably know this - how long do we discuss?
how long do we discuss?
Until the propser's head explodes.
Or seven days.
I thought it was four. And then voting for three.
Or is it talking for three and voting for four?
Or maybe it's easier to just go with the head exploding thing.
Maybe it's easier to go with the head exploding thing.
Totally.
I'm a little lost on how exactly a Book Club would work, and it might be buried in here, and I skipped and so I beg forgiveness.
How does a book get assigned? What's the lead time to expect it will be read? Is a new book proposed, voted upon (misterpoll?), and then announced in Press? Will there be a list of books so that people can pick something from the list and wait for discussion to start? At some point, won't there be so many books assigned that it then becomes another literary thread?
These, and more questions, next time on the Allyson Skimmed Show.
How does a book get assigned? What's the lead time to expect it will be read? Is a new book proposed, voted upon (misterpoll?), and then announced in Press? Will there be a list of books so that people can pick something from the list and wait for discussion to start? At some point, won't there be so many books assigned that it then becomes another literary thread?
The beauty part? All that is for discussion in thread if it passes. Or, I guess in Lit if it doesn't and people are still interested in trying. Or nowhere if neither.
Seven days? Dear god. That seems long. I'm liking four.
I don't remember anyone in the Literary thread saying "Hated it, gross, overrated, THEREFORE STOP DISCUSSING IT RIGHT NOW." Ever. If people have a negative opinion, they express it. Unless we need a Literary thread where people must refrain from posting negative opinions.
No, I think it's a case of a climate being created. I think we can fairly say, and this ties into the subcommunities part of this discussion, that there are different thread cultures in different threads on this board. Bitches is different as a place to hang out in from Music. Literary is different, too.