Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.

'Objects In Space'


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


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?


Michele T. - Aug 25, 2003 10:17:08 am PDT #4594 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

But the rest of the world can count.

Sure, but we've been talking about other places in terms of what has worked there, and what hasn't, and what we can learn from those places. Hec was talking about reducing numberslutting *here*, so saying "I don't numberslut elsewhere" is irrelevant. Plus, as Nou points out, it wouldn't have been clear to someone not at PF that Deb was discussing PF in the first place.

ita, what about the 7-minute auto-refresh? Or can we set an attribute to the autorefresh that limits the number of times that it does it? I'm going to go research that second one right now...


Dana - Aug 25, 2003 10:20:18 am PDT #4595 of 10005
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

so saying "I don't numberslut elsewhere" is irrelevant.

I think it was really just part of a conversation. It wasn't being offered up as anything else. And if we start busting people for not having every part of their post be on topic, even in this thread, we'll be very busy.


Cindy - Aug 25, 2003 10:40:36 am PDT #4596 of 10005
Nobody

Sure, but we've been talking about other places in terms of what has worked there, and what hasn't, and what we can learn from those places. Hec was talking about reducing numberslutting *here*, so saying "I don't numberslut elsewhere" is irrelevant. Plus, as Nou points out, it wouldn't have been clear to someone not at PF that Deb was discussing PF in the first place.

I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't know deb had her own thread, and I still figured out what she was saying. What I can't figure out is why you're taking this much objection to it. I can understand the original confusion, but this is getting silly. All she was doing was telling a friend that she never numbersluts anywhere, only instead of saying "anywhere", she mentioned where her any is.