Gee, just when I was needing a new tag, too...
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'Lessons'
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
Liese S. - Sep 02, 2003 7:23:54 pm PDT #5018 of 10005
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Jon B. - Sep 02, 2003 7:24:41 pm PDT #5019 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Wait... Is the motion whether Liese is a snickerdoodle of love, or whether Hec should tell Liese that she's a snickerdoodle of love?
Jon B. - Sep 02, 2003 7:29:47 pm PDT #5020 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Could we manually change the quote of the day? Maybe to "death is your art" since it won the first deathmatch. No biggie, just curious.
I just checked the code and it's ridiculously easy to change the quote manually, but I ain't going to do it without ita's blessing. I've heard that her death-pinky has transcontinental range.
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2003 7:31:58 pm PDT #5021 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know, if we start changing it on request, chaos will ensue.
I'm back at work tomorrow, so I'll code the QotD then.
Cindy - Sep 03, 2003 12:46:34 am PDT #5022 of 10005
Nobody
Wait... Is the motion whether Liese is a snickerdoodle of love, or whether Hec should tell Liese that she's a snickerdoodle of love?
Agitator!
Liese, I need to tell you that you are a snickerdoodle of love.
And that's not natter because I want everybody to take a vote on it.
Seconded!
(Can we throw the Bobita thing on this ballot, too?)
Thirded on the snickerdoodle and the bobita things. Let's enact the will of the people, people.
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2003 4:25:19 am PDT #5023 of 10005
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Wait... Is the motion whether Liese is a snickerdoodle of love, or whether Hec should tell Liese that she's a snickerdoodle of love?
Well, he already told her, which is a clear end run around procedure.
Cindy - Sep 03, 2003 4:31:56 am PDT #5024 of 10005
Nobody
So we should warn him or ban him? I'm always forgetting...
amych - Sep 03, 2003 4:35:41 am PDT #5025 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Spanking seems more suitable. Procedures be damned.
Trudy Booth - Sep 03, 2003 4:37:10 am PDT #5026 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
Didn't we tell him not five months ago that Lies is, in fact, a MALLOMAR of love?
Clearly that baked good is grandfathered. The question is whether one can simultaneously be a snickerdoodle and a Mallomar. I vote "no".
DXMachina - Sep 03, 2003 4:38:13 am PDT #5027 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Getting back to Nutty's post about possibly rearranging the sidebar information (FAQ pages, Etiquette pages, How-To pages), I think there are some things we can do to make things easier. There is duplication of the How-To information. As Jon notes, that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does complicate matters if we have to make a change, and we update the How-To page, but forget that it's also in the FAQ, or vice-versa. It might be better to have it only on the How-To page, and have that page referenced from the FAQ as well as having it's own link. (Or put the How-To stuff in the FAQ, and have the How-To link point to that spot in the FAQ.)
The FAQ could use a good rewrite, too. Case in point, the very first line states:
Warning: This FAQ may contain spoilers up to and including BtVS 6.22 and Angel 3.22.
There is a lot of obsolete information (TV schedules), broken links (Mr. Pointy), dialect that never caught on ("Cousin Clingon"), etc. Even some of the names are archaic: Elisabeth O., kirvin (sic), Nutty Vee, Connie H... And my name is misspelled (pout)!
I guess there are two things here. One is the organization of the information, which is what Nutty was talking about. I do think we can improve that a bit, but have no immediate ideas, other than what I mentioned about the How-To page. The other is updating the contents of the FAQ itself, and I'll be happy to start working on that.