Yes please.
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
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 1:58:34 pm PDT #4615 of 10005
Jessica - Aug 25, 2003 2:02:32 pm PDT #4616 of 10005
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Me three.
Current slug reads:
Birth, death, illness, new job, vacation...if it's happening to you and you want us to know about it, post it here. These threads are intended for announcements only. Want to offer sympathy or congratulations, or talk about anything? Take it to Natter. Any natter here will be deleted.
Do we need a formal proposal to change it to:
Birth, death, illness, new job, vacation...if it's happening to you and you want us to know about it, post it here. These threads are intended for major announcements only. (Definitions of "major" will vary, so use your best judgement.) Want to offer sympathy or congratulations, or talk about anything? Take it to Natter. Any natter here will be deleted.
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Astarte - Aug 25, 2003 2:14:21 pm PDT #4617 of 10005
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Why do we need a definition change for that?
I don't relish the whole argument of what constitutes "major", and then the ensuing bickering when someone posts an announcement not deemed sufficiently major for someone with their crankypants on.
Beep Me is neither a heavy traffic thread nor a mandatory one. Let's assume a little tolerance and common sense will carry us through here.
DavidS - Aug 25, 2003 2:16:04 pm PDT #4618 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Beep Me is neither a heavy traffic thread nor a mandatory one. Let's assume a little tolerance and common sense will carry us through here.
No but it's kind of drifted from its original purpose. More to the point, some folks use Beep Me as a quick way to check on the community and they're more interested in seeing Baby arrivals and new jobs than notices that somebody is going to be away from their computer for 36 hours.
Cindy - Aug 25, 2003 2:29:51 pm PDT #4619 of 10005
Nobody
I don't relish the whole argument of what constitutes "major", and then the ensuing bickering when someone posts an announcement not deemed sufficiently major for someone with their crankypants on.
Beep Me is neither a heavy traffic thread nor a mandatory one. Let's assume a little tolerance and common sense will carry us through here.
No but it's kind of drifted from its original purpose. More to the point, some folks use Beep Me as a quick way to check on the community and they're more interested in seeing Baby arrivals and new jobs than notices that somebody is going to be away from their computer for 36 hours.
I know. And I seldom post there. But I don't think we ought to over-legislate. I'm with Astarte.
Astarte - Aug 25, 2003 2:52:32 pm PDT #4620 of 10005
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
No but it's kind of drifted from its original purpose. More to the point, some folks use Beep Me as a quick way to check on the community and they're more interested in seeing Baby arrivals and new jobs than notices that somebody is going to be away from their computer for 36 hours.
Perhaps so, but even with the additional posts, there's just not that much to wade through there. It's already a pretty effectively self-regulated thread.
DXMachina - Aug 25, 2003 3:18:32 pm PDT #4621 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Perhaps so, but even with the additional posts, there's just not that much to wade through there.
Yup. Just to try to bring this all back into perspective, there are currently 948 posts in Beep Me, which averages out to about 3 posts a day since we opened. If even a third of those are "going away for the weekend" posts, cutting those out only gets us down to 2 posts a day. By comparison, Bitches and Natter are each currently averaging 300+ posts per day. In other words, the natter thread takes *three days* to produce the same number of posts as eleven months worth of Beep Me.
I tend to agree that weekend posts in Beep Me aren't especially necessary, but the posting volume in Beep Me is not the problem.
Dana - Aug 25, 2003 3:31:45 pm PDT #4622 of 10005
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
they're more interested in seeing Baby arrivals and new jobs than notices that somebody is going to be away from their computer for 36 hours.
Yeah, but that's not always the case. When Rio was looking for Hayden, for example, she could have popped over to Beep Me to see that he was gone. (Me having no actual idea if Hayden posted there or if Rio reads that thread, so please don't hurt me, FUCKO.)
Gandalfe - Aug 25, 2003 7:02:30 pm PDT #4623 of 10005
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I have my profile set to load 50 posts at a time. I'm going to change it to 75, now.
Pfaugh! I'm set at 100.
DCJensen - Aug 25, 2003 7:29:54 pm PDT #4624 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.
Me too. Been 100 since we got here, almost.
I got tired of hitting "next" and waiting. I can skim more efficiently.