is it OK if I leave it at 25?
God, I hope so. Mine's at 20.
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
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
Dana - Aug 25, 2003 6:32:22 am PDT #4584 of 10005
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2003 6:36:57 am PDT #4585 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sorry -- if I said Press above, I meant Beep Me.
Brenda, for me, the difference is that nothing has yet happened in my life important enough to be posted in Beep Me. My prolific nature, however, will show that I think plenty of things have happened that I just couldn't resist sharing in Natter (or Bitches, or Buffy, or whatever).
My birthday doesn't warrant announcing, though it may warrant discussion, or response to. That's why I see a difference.
But I'm also not bothered if no one notices, so it's quite clearly a personal preference thing. I don't think it's fair to assume I'm the only one that sees a difference, so I think it's fairest to give people a heads up in case they might feel shy like I do.
From a consuming point of view, I don't think they belong in Beep Me, but that merely makes it incumbent upon me to skim them. Which is no real deal. It may, at first, also increase the number of posts that need to be deleted as people forget where they are and respond in thread, but again, not a huge thing to work around.
Mostly, I just don't see the point. But as long as I'm not up there, it's not a problem.
Katie M - Aug 25, 2003 6:37:04 am PDT #4586 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
Could we try setting auto-refresh to 7 minutes, perhaps? It's a minor enough change that it won't drive the Katie Ms of the world crazy (will it?)
Nope, not at all.
If y'all want the birthday announcements to change someone's going to have to tell Nilly - I don't think she reads Bureaucracy.
lori - Aug 25, 2003 8:30:46 am PDT #4587 of 10005
ita also speaks for me, in post 4583.
Michele T. - Aug 25, 2003 8:39:14 am PDT #4588 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
mine is at peoplesforum
Then it's not really relevant to any discussion of how to conserve bandwidth here, is it.
I would personally prefer if people didn't post about going away for less than a a week in Beep Me, but I can understand why prolific posters would want to do so.
A suggestion -- could the Buffista calendar turn into a monthly e-mail? That way, people who want to get it, can get it, and those who don't, don't have to see it. It's easy enough to set up a mailing list...
Trudy Booth - Aug 25, 2003 8:40:38 am PDT #4589 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
A suggestion -- could the Buffista calendar turn into a monthly e-mail?
Awww... I kinda like it when Nilly pops up to wish us a happy whatever. She's so cheery.
deborah grabien - Aug 25, 2003 8:51:43 am PDT #4590 of 10005
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Then it's not really relevant to any discussion of how to conserve bandwidth here, is it.
I was responding to David, who addressed it specifically to me. Thanks for the update and can we move along now, since this is wasting bandwidth? I'd have put this in email, but your profile addy doesn't seem to list one. Mine does, however, so if you really have an issue about it, why not email me instead of taking up the bandwidth here?
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2003 8:55:06 am PDT #4591 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Then it's not really relevant to any discussion of how to conserve bandwidth here, is it.
Actually, I don't see why posting habits at other boards are by definition irrelevant. Bronze posting has been brought up here too.
Now, if you want to debate each point on its own merit, that's something else. But the rest of the world can count.
Noumenon - Aug 25, 2003 9:41:11 am PDT #4592 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
I thought Deb was talking about a thread here, too, like a treehouse on Buffista Island. But this is the only community I can keep up with so I forget other people are more sociable.
deborah grabien - Aug 25, 2003 9:49:32 am PDT #4593 of 10005
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Moving right along.
OK. So, refresh is set to zero. Page posts (for me, as an indulgence) is set to 25. I'm now only using "read new" and not hitting the refresh button. Posts are portmanteau, carrying several messages at once.
Is there anything else I can do, as an individual poster, that will immediately reduce the usage load?