You're just trying to start a board-wide melee, aren't you?
Dude! I offered to shut up! Do you have any idea at all how incredibly rare that is?
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
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
amych - Aug 18, 2003 3:41:01 pm PDT #4160 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Volans - Aug 18, 2003 3:42:38 pm PDT #4161 of 10005
move out and draw fire
I licked all of the initial seconds, so they are MINE!!!
("first seconds?!?!")
Round 1 of the WhiteFont Wars has started with ita's point about casting spoilers. Who wants popcorn?
amych - Aug 18, 2003 3:45:58 pm PDT #4162 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Porn meets bureaucracy. Only at b.org.
Sean K - Aug 18, 2003 3:46:41 pm PDT #4163 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I licked all of the initial seconds, so they are MINE!!!
Oooh! Raquel licked me.
Now I am hers.
DXMachina - Aug 18, 2003 3:49:15 pm PDT #4164 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
You know what? You can't spell the word "popcorn" without "porn".
amych - Aug 18, 2003 3:50:54 pm PDT #4165 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
You can't spell the word "popcorn" without "porn".
Or "modigy", apparently. But that's a whole 'nother thread.
Noumenon - Aug 18, 2003 7:53:59 pm PDT #4166 of 10005
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Burrell makes a good point about general discussion threads:
I find the conversation that takes place in them disjointed, undeveloped, and basically kinda boring. I no longer bother with Literary, I never really started with Music, and I rarely try to keep up with Movies. I find there is little to no payoff for reading them. This is not the fault of those who post in the threads. It is the nature of the general discussion format. It just doesn't go very far.
The Buffistas grew out of an obsessive focus on just one show. That's where the community came from. People say that the
Smallville
and
Stargate
discussions have their own communities now. I don't see Movies and Natter building communities. They live off the community we already have. We might never share a universal, all-consuming obsession like Bureaucr Buffy again, but if we nurture new obsessions, they can regenerate us.
This is making me think I should have voted for the Minearverse thread, and maybe should not vote for the general TV thread. The Minearverse will help us keep Allyson, the way Fic attracts the Lizard, because they're obsessed. The TV thread won't help retain or attract anybody.
Lyra Jane - Aug 19, 2003 3:24:29 am PDT #4167 of 10005
Up with the sun
I've pulled a list from the main page of our active threads, so we know for sure what our options are when we discuss consolidation. These are in order of most recent use; "Previously" and everything after it is under at least two closed threads.
Natter 15: Beware the Ides of Natter
Buffista Movies 1: Go Monkey. Choose Monkey.
Spike's Bitches 9: Shiny Beads and Sweet Talk
Firefly 3: Too Damned Pretty to Die
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
The Quotable Buffy: She said that? When?
Buffista Music 1: The Music (And Who Can Blame It) Swells
Bitchy Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Buffistechnology
Firefly Spoilers
Angel 3: Big Damn Evil, Sir.
Literary Buffistas: Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books
The Jossverse in Other Media
LotR - The Two Towers: "Dude, Where's my Precious?"
Farscape 1: Fetch the Comfy Chair
Buffy and Angel SPOILERS
F2F Planning
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
Atlantic Canadian Monday Madness
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
Due South: Mountie Fetishists Anon!
PPO
The Great Write Way
The Minearverse: YExpirationDateMV
Spoilage Lite: Angel
Previously 1: The Who Whating How With Huh?
Smallville 1: Clex!
Sang Sacre 1: It's a Blood, Blood, Blood, Blood World
The Quotable Angel: Can I say it? I wanna say it.
Spike's Bitches Anthology Project
Buffista Corp
Spoilage Lite: Buffy
The Quotable Firefly: Oh, my God, I am a hack...
Cindy - Aug 19, 2003 4:46:33 am PDT #4168 of 10005
Nobody
I've tried to group the threads. If I missed something, give a shout. It was unintentional, not a nefarious plot to eliminate a thread.
Up for discussion (not proposing, not yet, just trying to focus the conversation) - which threads need to be eliminated, repurposed and/or combined.
I'm thinking (not proposing) that we eliminate Buffy Spoilers Lite, combine BtVS, Angel, and Firefly Quotables, into a Quotable ME thread, and repurpose Previously to a previously on BtVS and Angel thread, and once the thread runs its course, change the name of Buffy/Angel Spoilers into just Angel Spoilers.
Discussion Threads.
ME/ME-related fandom discussions
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
Spoilage Lite: Buffy
The Quotable Buffy: She said that? When?
Previously 1: The Who Whating How With Huh?
Buffy and Angel SPOILERS
Angel
Angel 3: Big Damn Evil, Sir.
Spoilage Lite: Angel
The Quotable Angel: Can I say it? I wanna say it.
Firefly
Firefly 3: Too Damned Pretty to Die
Firefly Spoilers
The Quotable Firefly: Oh, my God, I am a hack...
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
Atlantic Canadian Monday Madness
The Jossverse in Other Media
The Minearverse: YExpirationDateMV
Other Fandom Discussions
LotR - The Two Towers: "Dude, Where's my Precious?"
Farscape 1: Fetch the Comfy Chair
Due South: Mountie Fetishists Anon!
Smallville 1: Clex!
Fiction Workshops
The Great Write Way (original fiction)
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
Bitchy Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Spike's Bitches Anthology Project
PPO (Smallville Fan Fiction)
Unfocused Discussion
Natter 15: Beware the Ides of Natter
Spike's Bitches 9: Shiny Beads and Sweet Talk
Sang Sacre 1: It's a Blood, Blood, Blood, Blood World
Focused Discussion
Buffista Movies 1: Go Monkey. Choose Monkey.
Buffista Music 1: The Music (And Who Can Blame It) Swells
Literary Buffistas: Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books
Buffistechnology
Buffista Corp
F2F Planning
Site Administration
If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me
Sunnydale Press
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
Site Tools and Archives
Coffee On My Monitor
Mejiaville
Nillytown
When come back bring tape
Archives
Are there any other overlaps, threads that can be combined, or threads that seemed needed when we opened them, but are more or less unused?
What are we going to do about Firefly? ("Nothing," is an acceptable answer; I'm just brainstorming.)
We have - is it 13? - episodes. We have 3 threads devoted to those 13? episodes. There's a split now, because the UK has seen episodes than NAFDA folks have not seen.
Are there Buffistas still very into Firefly who haven't/won't downloaded/been-gifted-with those UK-only-aired episodes?
If so, do the above-mentioned Buffistas want protection from spoilage on those UK-only-aired episodes?
If so, do the spoilage-protection-needing NAFDA Fireflyistas still need/want a separate thread dedicated to Firefly?
Once the UK has seen all the NAFDA episodes (even though NAFDA won't see all the UK episodes) is there still a need for a spoilers thread? I mean, there are no spoilers. Instead, would it make more sense to make the current Firefly Spoilers thread, the Firefly Full Monty thread, and keep the NAFDA Firefly thread as a haven for NAFDA-types who don't want to be spoiled?
§ ita § - Aug 19, 2003 4:49:04 am PDT #4169 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are there Buffistas still very into Firefly who haven't/won't downloaded/been-gifted-with those UK-only-aired episodes?
Yes.
If so, do the above-mentioned Buffistas want protection from spoilage on those UK-only-aired episodes?
Yes, as raised earlier when discussion of those eps was placed in the spoiler thread. I'd assume that hasn't significantly shifted.
would it make more sense to make the current Firefly Spoilers thread, the Firefly Full Monty thread
What's the advantage to that?