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.
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Eh, with all the hassle of trying to go through WX, I doubt it's worth it. But, like the movies and music threads that eventually were established, it's popped up more than once.
Anyway, it's hardly an issue. People wanted to talk about it, so fine. I've pretty much decided that in my head, neither that nor the moratorium exist. I'm happier that way.
But I'm curious what besides the War thread people thought it would apply to. Because we could have just said no way no how to that one and left it at that.
So I don't mind the grandfather clause, even if it makes us impatient occasionally.
What I mind is how it gets pulled out as a death-knell, to end a discussion that some people don't like.
To be fair, maybe it only happened once. But it sure rankled to see it used like that.
Hasn't it come up and been shot down multiple times? Wasn't avoiding topics like that one of the main reasons for the gf in the first place?
You know, I remembered that it was grandfathered in after I made my anti-TV thread posts. I didn't bring it up because I decided that, after the most recent gf discussion, I didn't want to go there again.
ETA: And Steph explains why I didn't want to bring it up better than I could.
I think we agreed that the grandfather clause card can't be used unless a cite/link to the discussion/consensus is provided. Or maybe I'm just making that up.
Okay, I just didn't remember a general TV thread discussion ever getting that far before which, as I understood it, was NOT covered by the grandfather clause, as it never got serious attention.
I'm willing to accept that I'm wrong about that, but that's why I was curious.
I think we agreed that the grandfather clause card can't be used unless a cite/link to the discussion/consensus is provided. Or maybe I'm just making that up.
No, you're not making that up, Wolf.
That doesn't mean I'm not crazy.
I think brenda's right about a general tv thread fitting under the grandfather clause. But since it's a moot point right now, I think it doesn't warrant too much debate at the moment.
I think brenda's right about a general tv thread fitting under the grandfather clause. But since it's a moot point right now, I think it doesn't warrant too much debate at the moment.
I agree, but again, the TV proposal only became moot, because we were asked to stop to address a fund-raising issue, which now may not exist.
So - again, I ask - please - if someone wants to challenge an eventual TV thread proposal using grandfather, dig up Betsy's wording on how to challenge, and then dig up your cites where we consensed-out-of-commission a TV thread, and do so pre-emptively, so we don't have a bunch of people already invested in formulating the ballot. It'll make life easier for all of us.
because we were asked to stop to address a fund-raising issue, which now may not exist
Just to clarify - it was a technical issue and it still exists.
