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
Plei has a secret wish?
For the record, the queue of Things To Vote On is nil, since the Minear Fluffy Bunny thread got voted in. There are some things about thread retirement and/or consolidation we haven't dealt with, but we created a ladies' and jellyspoons' agreement not to deal with that stuff till closer to fall, when the TV schedule comes out, and the end of Buffy is no longer a spoiler anywhere, etc. etc.
So if Plei has a secret wish, I think she should make it unsecret now or at her earliest convenience.
Oh, Candy, just give it all away why don't you?!
Oh, Candy, just give it all away why don't you?!
Even when you know about the surprise party, there's still cake and presents waiting.
A vote is a great idea, since the spoiler in question will necessarily color ALL speculation on Angel in all three AtS threads pretty soon. However, I would have no problem with asking people to delay the revelation until a chosen date, like one month before the premiere or something.
We might also want to make sure what the criteria for "being aired" is--a promo? A Joss interview? An actor interview? I'm still confused on that one.
I'm sure I don't know what you mean. {whistles and walks away}
I'd vote for that change. In fact, I'd propose it:
"That major casting spoilers which are being advertised by Fow, the WB or ME on TV, press or their official website are no longer spoilers, and should be discussed in the show threads."
if that's the official proposal, seconded.
When is the Minear thread being made?
And Jim, I like Candy's suggestion of limiting it to only major characters.
Sorry to interrupt this spoiler thing, but I have a question about procedure.
I'm unclear on the steps of warning someone whose behavior is a disturbance to several people.
I did, in fact, issue an in-thread warning to Caroma, here: Steph L. "Natter 14: What number are we on?" Jul 24, 2003 7:25:19 am PDT
She thinks, based on a past experience of hers, that I should suck it up or take it backchannel, as she said here: Caroma "Natter 14: What number are we on?" Jul 24, 2003 7:39:49 am PDT
I'm NOT asking for someone to intervene or mediate; I want to know if, based on what I said in my warning, I was proceding according to our established policy, or if I missed a step.
JIm, I think that proposal is overbroad; I like the principle but not that instantiation. I think we could hash it out in a little more detail -- here, not in Spoilers -- so that everyone's on the same page, before we get all official-proposally.
