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
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.
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.
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.
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.)
Me too. Been 100 since we got here, almost.
I got tired of hitting "next" and waiting. I can skim more efficiently.
What's the rationale behind 7 again? I was just going to go for 10.
There was a concern voiced that some of the numbers getting thrown around were too high. So I was suggesting a compromise between 5 and 10.
I remember making a suggestion a few of months ago to have the Buffy quotes available like the BROQ, so that people can go sit at that generator and amuse themselves.
Michele has a quote generator at [link] Do you want to add it to the links page?
Sorry about my bad post in Beep me. I could have sworn I was in Natter.
