Umm, WX is kind of back, but apparently has a new limit for threads that aren't active. Will this affect it's use as a contingency area?
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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
sumi - Jul 01, 2003 9:44:46 am PDT #2733 of 10005
Art Crawl!!!
DXMachina - Jul 01, 2003 10:52:01 am PDT #2734 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
sumi, I checked and they still allow you to mark a thread "permanent", which means it won't be automatically deleted. All of our threads are marked as permanent. The only change they made was to lower the maximum number of days for an inactive non-permanent thread to hang around before it's killed.
sumi - Jul 01, 2003 10:55:40 am PDT #2735 of 10005
Art Crawl!!!
Whew.
Consuela - Jul 01, 2003 11:59:24 am PDT #2736 of 10005
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Allyson just posted this link in Natter, but vis a vis the discussion we've sort of been having in fits and starts lately, about who we are and how we function, I think it's really interesting and relevant.
§ ita § - Jul 01, 2003 12:09:26 pm PDT #2737 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was just coming over with that 'Suela. Instead, I'll just drop some quotes that made me go "Ah."
he was driving himself crazy, in the colloquial sense of the term, trying to figure out whether or not he should be looking at the situation as: Are these individuals taking action on their own? Or is this a coordinated group?
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So there's this question "What is required to make a large, long-lived online group successful?" and I think I can now answer with some confidence: "It depends." I'm hoping to flesh that answer out a little bit in the next ten years.
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Of the things you have to accept, the first is that you cannot completely separate technical and social issues.
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The second thing you have to accept: Members are different than users. A pattern will arise in which there is some group of users that cares more than average about the integrity and success of the group as a whole. And that becomes your core group
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The third thing you need to accept: The core group has rights that trump individual rights in some situations. This pulls against the libertarian view that's quite common on the network, and it absolutely pulls against the one person/one vote notion. But you can see examples of how bad an idea voting is when citizenship is the same as ability to log in.
I do disagree, however, with his "things to design for" section.
Michele T. - Jul 01, 2003 12:16:29 pm PDT #2738 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Allyson - Jul 01, 2003 12:34:01 pm PDT #2739 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
Isn't the ID numbers a way of determining an "Old Hat" ita?
There's also backchannel. It's all so familiar. At the Bronze, people used shout out lists as a way to sort of announce how long they've been there. Status. Or announcing that they've been around forever, frequently.
Katie M - Jul 01, 2003 12:37:01 pm PDT #2740 of 10005
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I'm sorry that he doesn't talk about death-by-obsolescence as well as death-by-flameout, though.
§ ita § - Jul 01, 2003 12:41:19 pm PDT #2741 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Isn't the ID numbers a way of determining an "Old Hat" ita?
Unreliably. Is Joy an Old Hat? Margaret T? Jim Perry? They all have IDs under 50.
Allyson - Jul 01, 2003 12:45:21 pm PDT #2742 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
They all have IDs under 50.
In a year, they will be ancient. When member numbers hit 2000, they will be as the mighty redwood shading the struggling sapling. Why do we have member numbers? I think I missed out why.