You're nice, and you're funny and you don't smoke, and okay, werewolf, but that's not all the time. I mean, three days out of the month, I'm not much fun to be around, either.

Willow ,'Get It Done'


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


Sean K - May 11, 2003 7:53:09 pm PDT #1665 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

No Monique, you were trying to help, and I'm sorry I was snippy.

I need to doblerize.


Jon B. - May 11, 2003 8:37:00 pm PDT #1666 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Exemptions: Thread naming, disciplinary action against trolls (although the process itself could come up for a vote at some point) and tasks currently performed by Stompy Feet, including but not limited to board maintenance.

"I thought threads were exempt" etc

Thread creation does not fall under any of those exemptions. In fact, it was one of the things that we specifically said we would be voting on.


DavidS - May 11, 2003 8:39:25 pm PDT #1667 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm not at all worried that a thread for Tim's new show wouldn't pass.

Me too. I think it's a gimme, so why not go ahead and honor the process. Even in the Senate on pro forma votes they do the votes.


P.M. Marc - May 11, 2003 8:48:22 pm PDT #1668 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

So, can we get a clear definition of "board maintenance", for clarity?


Sophia Brooks - May 11, 2003 8:54:37 pm PDT #1669 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Well, when I wrote that I sort of meant things that I didn't understand about technical things that made the board happen. Like say, this CVS thing.


Sophia Brooks - May 11, 2003 8:55:19 pm PDT #1670 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Is that clear. Maybe someone who understands tech stuff should write a definition.


P.M. Marc - May 11, 2003 8:57:40 pm PDT #1671 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Huh.

That's development in my mind, but not maintenance. Maintenance (to me) is starting new threads when old ones roll over, resetting passwords, fixing slugs, whiting out shit.


Sophia Brooks - May 11, 2003 8:58:56 pm PDT #1672 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Well, I meant that, too. The technical stuff that not every needs to be in on to do.


Jon B. - May 11, 2003 8:59:41 pm PDT #1673 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Maintenance (to me) is starting new threads when old ones roll over, resetting passwords, fixing slugs, whiting out shit.

What Plei said.


brenda m - May 11, 2003 9:01:37 pm PDT #1674 of 10005
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Thread creation wasn't just one of the things we intended to vote on - it was probably the biggest impetus to go to voting at all, IIRC.

But I think the difficulty we're having is whether consolidating the Buffy threads, which originally started this discussion, falls under board maintenance. I can see that being considered maintenance, but other consolidation of threads is a stretch. To me at least.