Right. Piano. Because that's what we used to kill that big demon that one time. No, wait. That was a rocket launcher.

Xander ,'Touched'


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


Elena - Jul 25, 2003 10:13:35 pm PDT #3449 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.

Don't know, Kristen. Wasn't watching the show. But we were on TT, not our 'own' playground like WX or here. I don't know what, if any, policies were agreed upon at TT, or what we would have done had we been on our own.

I do know that there wouldn't have been a Bureaucracy thread on TT at that point, and I'm not entirely sure that there were even 'Buffistas' then.


DCJensen - Jul 25, 2003 10:16:10 pm PDT #3450 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.

Oh it was long ago and it was far away....

t /Meatloaf

S2 seems so long ago.


Kristen - Jul 25, 2003 10:17:31 pm PDT #3451 of 10005

And so much better than it is today.


Elena - Jul 25, 2003 10:18:59 pm PDT #3452 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.

It never felt so good, it never felt so right.


DCJensen - Jul 25, 2003 10:24:18 pm PDT #3453 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.

And we were glowin' like the metal on the edge of the "Scythe."


Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2003 10:24:51 pm PDT #3454 of 10005
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

What happened waaaaaay back in the day with DB getting sent to hell?

In regards to him dying or him coming back?

I didn't know about either until they happened and I was reading the boards (except spoilers) vigorously.


Lee - Jul 25, 2003 10:27:40 pm PDT #3455 of 10005
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night


DCJensen - Jul 25, 2003 10:32:56 pm PDT #3456 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.

We can see Lindsay swing by the truck's headlights....


Elena - Jul 25, 2003 11:11:09 pm PDT #3457 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.

I've made a desperate plea for compromise that I think solves nearly everything with a minimum of pain... I'll link here so people can skip the entire conversation to that point if they want.

Elena "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Jul 26, 2003 1:07:30 am PDT


Typo Boy - Jul 25, 2003 11:24:52 pm PDT #3458 of 10005
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

OK - I don't think the grandfathering vote is being interpeted right. I seriously doubt that most people voting for it thought they were grandfathering in the entire FAQ.

The grandfathering thing was to avoid revotes on stuff that had been debated. I don't think the definition of spoiler was ever debated. No it was not snuck it; it kind of grew. But there was never the kind of debate that rejected say the politics theread. I think if there was no debate, no sense we were setting a permanent policy then it is not grandfathered in.

And I would point out that voter intent should count for quite in bit in interepeting stuff like the grandfather clause. Because in spite of having lawyers on our board, we did not draft things in legal language. So taking narrow interpetations of language over original intent when it can be determined is going to lead to a lot of ill feeling. How do we determine original intent? Simple. Ask people who voted on the Grandfathering issue whether they though they were voting to grandfather (or not) the entire FAQ and etiquette.