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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
Just for the record, I hate IKEA. I only read Farscape and Smallville, and post very little. I don't mind it as a thread title which will change (a la South SmallScape 1: IKEA!!!!!), but not as IKEA 1: A Dog with Two Bones.
I think that the thread title should at least give some sort of idea what the thread is about.
Also-- people should realize when voting that if they don't like any part of what is proposed, they should vote no.
I'm with ita and Beverly.
For the record, in practically every question in the ballot that referred to a thread I don't post in, I voted "No Preference" (OK, other than the two that had no arguments against closing them). I didn't feel like I have the right to make desicions that won't affect me but will affect other posters.
Ikea = nonsense, to me. Let's be descriptive and specific.
Combined TV Fandom #1: SV, FS, dS, SG-1.
slug: If you can decipher the titular abbreviations, come in and chat about them.
So, specific, but obscure enough not to draw in the general TV talk; detailed, but expandable; emphasis on fandom and off general TV.
Trudy---personally I don't like Ikea, but I realize that a lot of people who participate in the threads do like it.
However, I'm just upset that people who have nothing to do with our subcommunity, no matter how small, got to decide it's fate, and now we may not even get over ruled in the name.
I have a potentially kerfuffle-inducing question: but I feel like I have to ask:
Will the FAQ spoiler policy be in place for the combined Smallville/Due South/SG-1/Farscape thread?
Because I'm all about the Smallville spoiler ho'ing and in that thread whitefonting even major spoilers (which for Smallville is so an oxymoron, but that is another conversation entirely) is OK.
Just curious, I'm fine if whitefonting is outlawed for that thread.
I'm just upset that people who have nothing to do with our subcommunity, no matter how small, got to decide it's fate, and now we may not even get over ruled in the name.
Again. I'm not best pleased with some of the vote outcomes. But surely, askye, you aren't saying, as your last three posts seem to suggest, that this one "subcommunity" should have an autonomy and self-governance that other threads don't have? Because that's a dangerous precedent to contemplate.
We've been employing the whitefront for future spoilers, but for episodes that are aired there's no whitefronting necessary, save the east coast-west coast time difference.
If I can get four seconds, I can propose tomorrow that we change our name from "The Buffistas" to "Toe Jam".
Seconded.
I believe we'd decided to go with a non-whitefonting policy, but I could be recalling incorrectly.
I like Nutty's proposal. Not too dense to be followed, and no Ikea in evidence.
For the record, I don't watch Smallville and don't intend to. I will read the combined thread and skim what doesn't interest me, just as I do with other threads here. And yes, I voted for the combined thread in the interest of conserving board resources.