You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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 26, 2003 4:40:13 pm PDT #3482 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.

But Elena, what?? Remove your very large toenail clippings? Your very large pizza with extra mushrooms?

t shock and alarm How did you find out about the toenail clippings! t /shock and alarm

Font. Very large font.


Fay - Jul 26, 2003 5:03:54 pm PDT #3483 of 10005
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

VERY large font. Comedically large. Font that has no need to fear the mockery of other fonts in the locker room.


Consuela - Jul 26, 2003 8:23:58 pm PDT #3484 of 10005
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I gotta sit with Dana. I like to be as unspoiled as possible. On the other hand, I don't have the energy to participate in this debate, and odd as it may be I trust the Buffistas to work out something reasonable. If we come up with something that's different from now, I'll learn to live with it. This is still the safest place on the Net for spoilerphobes like me.


Burrell - Jul 27, 2003 7:23:29 am PDT #3485 of 10005
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I really do wish that more of the unspoiled would speak up in the Light Bulbs thread. It would make it easier to gauge everyone's positions.


Jon B. - Jul 27, 2003 8:21:35 am PDT #3486 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

See my post in Press: Jon B. "Sunnydale Press" Jul 27, 2003 10:20:12 am PDT

I hope this accurately reflects what was agreed upon.


Lyra Jane - Jul 27, 2003 9:13:58 am PDT #3487 of 10005
Up with the sun

It sounds like this was pretty much decided, but just in case ... I agree that the grandfather clause should not be taken as applying to the entire FAQ, especially parts that (like the spoiler policy) were discussed, written, and implemented by persons unknown at a point in time alone.


Allyson - Jul 27, 2003 9:58:31 am PDT #3488 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

I truly am very interested in whether Grandfather covers the FAQ. It's disturbing to me if it does. It's a lis of Frequently Asked Questions that cover everything from quick edit, to beagles, to where to send money to support the Phoenix, to how DavidS got his nickname.

If we can't make a change to one part of it because of Grandpappy, then we can't make changes to any of it. If Jesse no longer wants to deal with the donations, and Beth says she'd be happy to take over, well, Jesse is shit out of luck until such a date as when we are allowed to vote.


§ ita § - Jul 27, 2003 10:00:34 am PDT #3489 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Say grandfathering doesn't apply to the FAQ. Does it apply to the rule in the NAFDA thread headers?

I'm still surprised by the idea that persons unknown covertly made this decision and imposed it on the board as a whole. My reflex thought is that if there was no discussion, it was because no one voiced an objection. But it must have come up somewhere ... Buffistas never do anything without yammering, do we?


Typo Boy - Jul 27, 2003 10:07:41 am PDT #3490 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.

Don't think it is a case of covertly, so much as accidentally. That is people get asked to delete or move or whitefont a post because it is spoilery, and they do assuming the person asking knows what they are talking about. And the person asking believes they know what they are talking about, because that is how they interpert the spoiler rule.


§ ita § - Jul 27, 2003 10:10:39 am PDT #3491 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How does one accidentally change all the NAFDA thread headers, Gar? That's what I don't get.