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Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


Jesse - May 09, 2003 1:55:33 pm PDT #1555 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My main concern is, where does it stop? Are we going to have a Matrix thread? An Alias thread? A mystery book thread?


Deena - May 09, 2003 1:57:26 pm PDT #1556 of 10005
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

I like the idea of an alias thread


msbelle - May 09, 2003 1:57:37 pm PDT #1557 of 10005
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Well Big Brother 4 is starting up soon.


Allyson - May 09, 2003 1:58:34 pm PDT #1558 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Where do you think limitations should be set, Jesse? I think the same thing, grateful as I am for the LotR thread.


§ ita § - May 09, 2003 2:01:03 pm PDT #1559 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't see any simple justification for, say, an Alias thread and not a TAR thread, or a Coupling thread, or whatever. They all seem out of scope to me, despite what's been grandfathered in.

Shows by ex-ME people, different, though. But how "by" is "by"? Writes for? Show runs? Created?


msbelle - May 09, 2003 2:02:58 pm PDT #1560 of 10005
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

joking aside, I think we are once again at the question of what is a critical mass. I would hate to see a ton of ballots about this, but maybe one ballot with many of the thread options.


Jesse - May 09, 2003 2:04:52 pm PDT #1561 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Where do you think limitations should be set, Jesse?

I'm not sure. I mean, I know what I'd do, but I don't know what would work best for the group.

Shows by ex-ME people, different, though. But how "by" is "by"? Writes for? Show runs? Created?

And how "ex" is "ex"? I mean, Allyson made a list of folks and their current shows that had names I didn't recognize on it.


msbelle - May 09, 2003 2:06:07 pm PDT #1562 of 10005
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I get what ita is saying, but if we get to the point where 70 people are posting about Alias and 10 are posting in one of the NonME shows that already has a thread, how does that make sense?


§ ita § - May 09, 2003 2:11:44 pm PDT #1563 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

70 people are posting about Alias

Where? In Natter?

I say we cross that bridge when we come to it. At which point, as much as I enjoy posting about Alias, I'd probably still not be pro.


Allyson - May 09, 2003 2:12:32 pm PDT #1564 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I'm not sure. I mean, I know what I'd do

Okay, so let's hear it, then! Really, toss it out and let's make salad.

maybe one ballot with many of the thread options.

I was thinking the same thing, which is why I was wondering if I could make a proposal with three parts to it: Closing down Buffy Spoilage Light, adding Wonder Falls thread (if it gets picked up?), and adding Graduates.