I vote for a cute pictures thread!

edit: but we don't need two of them

I think new threads go up for a vote because we have limited bandwidth and that means not all proposed threads could ever be instituted.

There was a guy named Z Man in Worst Possible Thread Names on Table Talk who showed how this could get out of hand:

Z Man - 02:54 pm PDT - Mar 1, 2001 - #2041 of 3532
The Thread

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Z Man - 02:54 pm PDT - Mar 1, 2001 - #2042 of 3532
That's Spread Over

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Z Man - 02:55 pm PDT - Mar 1, 2001 - #2043 of 3532
3 Threads, Thread

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also proposed...

Think I'll Start A Thread For The Hell Of It. La La Laaa

How About Another One

Thread Creation As A Sport

Thread Creation As A Hobby

Thread Creation As A Plea For Attention

Thread Creation As A Desperate Cry For Help

TT also used to have real threads called things like, "I'm bored, is anyone here?" and about 16 variations on "The Insomniac Thread." So I can kind of see the value of using community consensus to decide when a thread starts, especially when our bandwidth is limited.

By board, I mean straight up Buffistas.org. I'd always seen who posts here, and how, and which threads exist for posting in, yadda, yadda to be in the voting purview.

T-shirts, face to faces, charitable donations ... those don't actually involve right *here*. Not about this code, these threads ... does that make sense?

This would be how I would divide it, too. Also, didn't the F2F people have a vote (or possibly several votes) to set the date and place?

Also, didn't the F2F people have a vote (or possibly several votes) to set the date and place?

That raises for me, the main difference between stuff like F2F, charity stuff, etc., and Official Phoenix Business -- the first group of stuff doesn't affect everyone, just a subgroup who opt in. There will be, what? 50 people at the F2F? I don't need to participate in the decision-making process around that. Procedural issues, new threads, and the like, even if I don't actively participate, affect the board which I use, so they do affect me. I think that's the difference.

Jesse's hit the nail on the head, I think. Because if the F2F had an impact on me I wouldn't be all envious and bitter - hey, does that count as an impact?

I agree totally with ita - there's a difference between stuff that affects buffistas.org (the board, the servers, the design) and stuff that affects someor all Buffistas. I also think that's such an obvious distinction - between a social group and a physical entity - that it doesn't need debating. It's like if we all shared ownership of a car. We'd have to vote on what tyres to use, and who got to drive it wehn, but if you wanna have a barbeque for your fellow car-co-owners, then that's your business.

I think that there's a hanging tag in "Quotable" - - because there is white fontedness that doesn't need to be there.

I may want a thread called "Please Search the Net for Photos of Guys I Think Are Cute and Post Them Here For Me." but that would be of interest to, well, me, and use a lot of community resources.

Scrappy is brilliant. After we vote in the Minear thread (not to reveal my biases or anything) I am so proposing a Drool Streaks thread. Just you wait. It'll be oh so popular and the summer will just fly on by.

Yeah, Burrell. I can hear it now.

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