Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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
You're missing the message, that this point of spoiler policy, namely, summertime casting news about regular cast members, wasn't addressed in the policy. It's a no-go.
You're missing the point that the policy was the standard that was deviated from. Sometimes those deviations were objected to, sometimes they weren't.
Or: Wonder Falls 1, Body Count 0.
Yes! Although frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the count changed.
Yes! Although frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the count changed.
We could update it as it happened, and it would be really, really funny.
You're missing the point that the policy was the standard that was deviated from. Sometimes those deviations were objected to, sometimes they weren't.
That's not clear at all. It isn't clear that summertime cast announcements were considered spoilers when the slug for the thread and the FAQ for this board were written. It isn't clear, because Jon wrote them and he's stated they weren't in his mind.
Tell me, are you going to also address that the FF spoiler thread is being used against it's policy, and that it's slug was changed despite the grandfather clause prohibition on changing things always in effect? Because if there's one thing that's always been in effect, it's that people were not prohibited from talking about episodes that had already aired in the US, in a spoiler thread - and yet, the community made this adaptation most recently.
We could update it as it happened, and it would be really, really funny.
Ooh, I like that idea.
Cindy, talking a little below your knowledge does not ruin your enjoyment of the show.
Trudy, I love you. But you don't know this. As an essentially un-spoiled person, you don't know this.
And it does mar my enjoyment of this discussion board. Because there's nothing that we're allowed to discuss.
That's not clear at all. It isn't clear that summertime cast announcements were considered spoilers when the slug for the thread and the FAQ for this board were written.
At the very moment they were written? No. Prior to that? YES. It IS clear. Summer spoilers have been a concern before. Sometimes they were discussed, sometimes they weren't, but they HAVE been a concern.
Tell me, are you going to also address that the FF spoiler thread is being used against it's policy, and that it's slug was changed despite the grandfather clause prohibition on changing things always in effect?
Was there ANY objection to that change?
Besides, re-purposing one thread is not as big as changing an essential policy that has existed since the beginning of the community.
Was there ANY objection to that change?
Yes. I believe Le Nubian objected. In this thread, as a matter of fact.
Yes! Although frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the count changed.
We could update it as it happened, and it would be really, really funny.
Yes, this! And it would be even funnier if by some freak chance, it never changed, and it just stayed, and stayed...but no, wait, we're talking about Tim here. Anyway, yay for this thread title!