Okay, we are going to do away with them permanently?
That really kind of sucks.
I just like them.
Why not put the link above the "Message Center" title.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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!
Okay, we are going to do away with them permanently?
That really kind of sucks.
I just like them.
Why not put the link above the "Message Center" title.
I admit, my CSS styling of the site has no quotes in it, so I'm more used to not seeing them, but I think the pointedness is quite apropos.
Okay, we are going to do away with them permanently?
The only thing I've seen suggested is Quotes Will Return When Writers Are Back To Work. Totally different vibe.
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sumi, I'm a moron. I read your "We need them" as somehow meaning that the board doesn't function without them. Like, in a technical sense.
Sorry -- that was a total negative IQ moment.
(I like them, too.)
Okay, we are going to do away with them permanently?
I thought it was meant that it would be temporary, just for the strike?
"give the writers their money or the quotes get it."
Which is, strictly speaking, true.
I hate the feeling of the writers getting this outpouring of support while so many of the other folks being hit by this situation are either a last paragraph mention or not mentioned at all.
FWIW, ND. When I emailed my Mom and told her of my intentions to bring fruit to striking writers, she wrote back, "you know it's the below-the-line employees who are really being hurt by this strike." So she must have heard that somewhere.
That really kind of sucks.
I just like them.
So do I. But I like the symbolism that the board is giving up something that the writers created as a show of our support.
I know that there are a lot of people swept up in this, I don't mean to ignore that.
But what we are considering officially supporting is not really "the writers" - it's "the strike". It's implicit, but I don't think it should be forgotten or elided. We're not voting over whether writers are deserving of respect or adulation or whatnot - we're voting over whether to cast our support behind a specific labor action. That's why I think we need to vote on it. To me, that's also why the focus is and should be on that group, and not everyone getting a raw deal in Hollywood.
Edited to avoid totally derailing the converstation.
So do I. But I like the symbolism that the board is giving up something that the writers created as a show of our support.
Yeah, me too.