River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.

'Objects In Space'


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


candyb - Jul 24, 2003 5:27:48 am PDT #3276 of 10005

I'm sure I don't know what you mean. {whistles and walks away}


Jim - Jul 24, 2003 5:37:58 am PDT #3277 of 10005
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

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."


Lyra Jane - Jul 24, 2003 5:42:56 am PDT #3278 of 10005
Up with the sun

if that's the official proposal, seconded.


esse - Jul 24, 2003 5:43:10 am PDT #3279 of 10005
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

When is the Minear thread being made?

And Jim, I like Candy's suggestion of limiting it to only major characters.


Steph L. - Jul 24, 2003 5:45:11 am PDT #3280 of 10005
I look more rad than Lutheranism

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.


Nutty - Jul 24, 2003 5:46:39 am PDT #3281 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

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.


Lyra Jane - Jul 24, 2003 5:49:58 am PDT #3282 of 10005
Up with the sun

Isn't the policy propose, second, *then* hash out specifics in Lightbulb? I seconded it with that understanding.


amych - Jul 24, 2003 5:54:24 am PDT #3283 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Isn't the policy propose, second, *then* hash out specifics in Lightbulb? I seconded it with that understanding.

The proposer is in charge of the proposal wording.

If you want to propose something, get seconds, and run with the proposal as originally worded, great. If you want to propose, get seconds, and revise, that works too. If you want to go for bullshit consensus on the original proposal before officially asking for seconds, you can do that too.


Nutty - Jul 24, 2003 5:54:59 am PDT #3284 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Well, but I like to do more of the general hashing out in advance, because that makes the initial proposal not very different from the one that goes to vote -- most of its kinks have been worked out already.

Because, like I said, I can already see kinks in the text of what Jim is proposing.


Jon B. - Jul 24, 2003 5:55:50 am PDT #3285 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

What's "Fow"?