Not from me. And DS is the first thread I go to every day.
Anya, the Shopkeepers of America called. They wanted me to tell you that 'please go' just got replaced with 'have a nice day.'
Xander ,'Selfless'
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
brenda m - Aug 27, 2003 6:37:23 am PDT #4703 of 10005
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Beverly - Aug 27, 2003 6:37:48 am PDT #4704 of 10005
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Okay, I'm way behind on the undesirability of a "general tv thread." What's bad about that? It seems the most effective way of reducing threads, to combine everything that isn't ME.
Not a facetious question. I must have missed that discussion, because it seems like an accepted undesirable outcome, and I don't remember why.
askye - Aug 27, 2003 6:38:32 am PDT #4705 of 10005
Thrive to spite them
I don't like the Ikea name. I would like it to be something that would keep the thread "our" thread and not something that would turn into a general tv thread. Because that isn't supposed to happen. We're already being asked to change our subcommunities due to the vote of people who probably didn't have anything to do with our threads, please don't do anything that will take away more of who we are.
Trudy Booth - Aug 27, 2003 6:39:48 am PDT #4706 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
I am entirely too fond of lingonberries.
DXMachina - Aug 27, 2003 6:40:41 am PDT #4707 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I'm unhappy about Farscape (which I don't watch, and therefore don't care or want to read about) merging with two threads I read daily.
I'm unhappy about Farscape, a thread I read daily, merging with two threads I have no interest in whatsoever. Let us go out, and together shake our fists at the universe.
Gandalfe - Aug 27, 2003 6:40:54 am PDT #4708 of 10005
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
The Ikeaists will likely be the heaviest users. Who's with me? Do I get secondses?
It doesn't matter to me, because I never read any of those damn threads, but I really strongly dislike the name.
askye - Aug 27, 2003 6:42:57 am PDT #4709 of 10005
Thrive to spite them
Can we let the people who use the threads decide on the title?
brenda m - Aug 27, 2003 6:43:48 am PDT #4710 of 10005
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I really, really wish the ballot question as written had left Farscape out of the mix, as was discussed in Lightbulb. Grouping it with the DS/SV stuff isn't going to make anyone happy on either side.
Beverly - Aug 27, 2003 6:44:20 am PDT #4711 of 10005
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
There was a vote. I doubt any of us is unilaterally content with the outcome of all the questions, but this is the way we hacked out of the wildness to do things.
Also? After a certain amount of shakedown time, combined threads may settle into something we can all live with. If not? I suppose we can propose changes, after--what? six months? We can deal for six months, right?
Katie M - Aug 27, 2003 6:44:52 am PDT #4712 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
Even though IKEA makes me laugh like a loon - and I was pro when kat first mentioned it - I now think it's a bad idea. I voted against on that question because we're trying to avoid a general TV thread, so I think we probably want to be really blunt in the title. I liked Anne W.'s suggestion:
"Due South/Smallville/Farscape--Why, yes, the slash is intentional"
Discussion of our favorite Mounties, Chicago cops, millionaires, aliens, astronauts. and the men who love them. Immortals, archaeologists, and Air Force types are also welcome.
...but it sounds like maybe some of the Farscape folks are uncomfortable with the slashiness of that? (And maybe that's why people keep saying that Farscape doesn't fit? I'm so used to slash by now that I'm practically blind to it, so that'd make sense out of my confusion.)
I would like to ask that people who actually post in at least one of the three topics get to make the call on the topic name, FWIW.
I am entirely too fond of lingonberries.
Ooh, I got addicted to lingonberry jam in college when apparently the club chef bought a whole bunch of the stuff - I have no idea why, but we were eating lingonberry jam all year. Yummy.
Beverly, I think we decided that a general TV thread was likely to actually increase posting volume, which would be Bad.