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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


Trudy Booth - Jul 27, 2003 6:24:57 pm PDT #3585 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

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.


Kat - Jul 27, 2003 6:28:25 pm PDT #3586 of 10005
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Was there ANY objection to that change?

Yes. I believe Le Nubian objected. In this thread, as a matter of fact.


Liese S. - Jul 27, 2003 6:30:43 pm PDT #3587 of 10005
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

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!


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 27, 2003 6:33:25 pm PDT #3588 of 10005
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

We could update it as it happened, and it would be really, really funny.

Count me as a vote toward this option. While I doubt that a character-based series will allow Tim quite the free reign with violence and mayhem that Angel did, the fact that Wonderfalls' premise has been compared to Amélie puts me in mind of the quirky death the mother of the movie's title character suffered. I bet we'll have an elderly shut-in providing one last meal for his or her 53 cats or somesuch before the season is done.


brenda m - Jul 27, 2003 6:38:40 pm PDT #3589 of 10005
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh yeah, there'll be sad or poignant deaths, even if not funny ones.


Lysana - Jul 27, 2003 6:39:57 pm PDT #3590 of 10005
Hellbound Equal-Opportunity Nookie Hog

We could update it as it happened, and it would be really, really funny.

Yes. I like it, too.


Katie M - Jul 27, 2003 6:42:10 pm PDT #3591 of 10005
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Hey, by the way, thank you to everyone who went and actually found those TT and WX conversations.


Laura - Jul 27, 2003 6:44:35 pm PDT #3592 of 10005
Our wings are not tired.

Count me among those who feel the GFC does not apply here. Also, I feel that the possibility of it being applied should have been discussed prior to the Light Bulb thread being opened and hundreds of posts being made.

Lovely thread name. My memory tells me that we had several fun suggestions at the time we were voting on creating the thread. When I am more alert I will search some.


Jessica - Jul 27, 2003 6:46:06 pm PDT #3593 of 10005
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

fact that Wonderfalls' premise has been compared to Amélie

I didn't think of that while I was watching it, but it's very true!

And I like Wonderfalls 1, Body count 0, updated as necessary. (Though Touched By a Crazy Person has the appeal of being a Tim quote.)


Trudy Booth - Jul 27, 2003 6:48:23 pm PDT #3594 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

I think any ballot that officially broadens the terms of the spoiler policy should include, if passed, the creation of a virgin thread.

That way, the spoiled, the semi-spoiled, the just a little spoiled on this one thing AND the unspoiled will all have a place to talk.