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
Whoa. I don't post or read for a day or so and this all blossoms.
Iffen it matters:
1. I'm still anti-thread proliferation.
2. I'm pro-thread combination, but I have a feeling that you will find that the people who post in the current threads won't be so thrilled at the prospect. For example, if Smallville is the only thread in which I post regularly and it gets sucked into something else, then I could see not wanting non-participants to define what happens to it for me.
3. Given #2, I think we should proceed with extreme caution in opening threads. IF we don't like to close or combine those fledgling threads with minimal posts, then if we ever start new ones, we'll face the same battle.
4. I wholeheartedly agree before we do housekeeping etc., we need a state of the Board convo on Who We Want To Be.
That is all.
One method for determining thread closure that no one has discussed is low-or-no-usage. If a thread falls into disuse, it should be pretty clear that it's no longer needed. As long as two Atlantic Canadians are left posting to each other (and I hope it never comes to that, because they're all wonderful members of this online community), their specific thread has a good use here.
Perhaps a metric should be established to say, "If a thread has less than X posts in Y time period from Z different posters it will be considered for closure" and that would eliminate some uncertainty in the general thread closure process.
I don't see how it's fair enough that Tim gets his own thread
Tim isn't merely ME, he's a Buffista.
Really, if any Buffista gets a TV show I'd think a thread would be a serious consideration. Hell, I'd even put it to a vote: Any Buffista with a TV show should get a thread, yes or no.
Really, if any Buffista gets a TV show I'd think a thread would be a serious consideration. Hell, I'd even put it to a vote: Any Buffista with a TV show should get a thread, yes or no.
t resolves to begin work on new TV show immediately
Some working episode titles:
Reindeer - Coping with light deprivation through drugs.
Naked Mole Rats - From beneath you, they devour.
Southern Right Whales - It's not the size, it's what you do with it that counts. ...Ok, it's the size.
Box Jellyfish - I always take vinegar to the beach. You're probably the same yourself.
Giraffes - Let us kiss with tongue!
Mantis Shrimp - Nice aquarium you have here. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it...
Hyenas - Forcing together parts of unequal size.
Hmmm. This could work.
Pitch it as
Survivor 6: Survivor of the Fittest.
Now there's a reality show.
(The
Survivor
series is about the only thing as heavily edited as this post.
Why
is it spelled that way?)
So it's like Survivor of the fittest?
Hee. I shamefully admit I would watch a show where contestants had to choose what they want stuffed down their trousers, naked mole rats or mantis shrimp, and watch them make the wrong choice every. Single. Week.
Tim isn't merely ME, he's a Buffista.
Really, if any Buffista gets a TV show I'd think a thread would be a serious consideration. Hell, I'd even put it to a vote: Any Buffista with a TV show should get a thread, yes or no.
Yes
(and possibly 'I second that')
I would watch a show where contestants had to choose what they want stuffed down their trousers, naked mole rats or mantis shrimp, and watch them make the wrong choice every. Single. Week.
I now want to know which billytea considers to be the right choice.
if any Buffista gets a TV show I'd think a thread would be a serious consideration. Hell, I'd even put it to a vote: Any Buffista with a TV show should get a thread, yes or no.
I like that. I'd second the proposal.
okay, so I skimmed a little, and there was some skipping (but I blame that on the fact that I've been mixing pathwork squares all afternoon and my brain now refuses to recognise three quarters of the colour spectrum) but, has the conversation really become...
A Buffista, a nekkid prawn and a pair of trousers in a treehouse get a talkshow, nobody hears them fall, how many forrest threads do we create?
A Buffista, a nekkid prawn and a pair of trousers in a treehouse get a talkshow, nobody hears them fall, how many forrest threads do we create?
It may depend on how many monkeys typing randomly it takes to agree on the slash in Shakespeare, and whether they're grammatically correct while they do it.
Edit: and all these trees bring a new, terrible, punning meaning to 'post Graduate'.
