I'm for taking a bit of the Bitch out, too.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
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
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2003 4:03:28 am PDT #5069 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat - Sep 05, 2003 5:21:15 am PDT #5070 of 10005
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Okay, so closing PPO/Anthology and renaming Bitchy Fic to Buffista Fic sounds good to me.
And DS/FS/SV?
Dana - Sep 05, 2003 5:24:37 am PDT #5071 of 10005
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
DS/FS/SV?
I'd try to post a last nudge in those threads and get the inhabitants to weigh in. Someone who is not currently working on the FAQ (i.e., not me) could page back and gather the most popular suggestions proposed.
Nutty - Sep 05, 2003 5:43:28 am PDT #5072 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
FS/SV/DS -- We were playing around with
Boxed Set: ______.
(2nd thread to be called Boxed Set Vol. 2: _____.) The first Boxed Set subtitle was going to be something like "Farscape, Smallville, Due South, Yay!" and then a slug involving the phrase "TV Fandom", or vice versa.
And it taught me the word "passim." (I thought Nilly said it meant bubblewrap! :)
Passim = Latin, I think. It means "and this other stuff I am too tired to point out specifically, but is right near that other stuff I already pointed out". Mostly, in the Lawspeak, I did it to reference conversations that had hashed out an idea, but the idea had not been restated by a single person.
There are links to (all but the recent) vote outcomes in the Lawspeak now. (I think they're to the Press announcement.)
DXMachina - Sep 05, 2003 5:46:36 am PDT #5073 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
From way back, here was where we were before we got side tracked by other stuff.
Boxed Set 1: Farscape, Smallville, Due South, et al.
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
There were a couple of objections to "et al." as promoting thread drift, but my feeling is that the thread is going to drift regardless, plus we're in much better shape with regards to server load than we were, so we may as well be honest about it. Besides, naming every single show we talk about in there would make the thread title very long...
x-posted with Nutty.
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2003 6:01:29 am PDT #5074 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
my feeling is that the thread is going to drift regardless, plus we're in much better shape with regards to server load than we were, so we may as well be honest about it
We're in better shape, but I'm queasing at the idea that we're perceived as in better enough shape to shrug at a de facto general TV thread.
Katie M - Sep 05, 2003 6:06:29 am PDT #5075 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
We're in better shape, but I'm queasing at the idea that we're perceived as in better enough shape to shrug at a de facto general TV thread.
Okay, so, Pros and Cons of the et al.!
Pros:
Latin is cool
People will know to look for things like Stargate discussion in Boxed Set
It's honest
Cons:
People will start things like Stargate discussion in Boxed Set (well, it's a bit late for that one)
Really that's about it, as far as I can see. I'm happy to drop it if it makes people involved in the nitty-gritty of board-running nervous. I mean, I already know that it's the de facto Fannish TV thread, so I don't need the pointer.
Cindy - Sep 05, 2003 6:12:39 am PDT #5076 of 10005
Nobody
Cons: People will start things like Stargate discussion in Boxed Set (well, it's a bit late for that one)
I think the con isn't so much that. We know, accept, understand there is already drift. We want the title/name to reflect just the three shows, so that it doesn't indicate the thread is a general genre thread.
By the way? I could care less about this. I think because I've been so argumentative in this thread lately, anything I say could be interpreted other than how I intend. But when Kat was making the proposal, she was fairly clear about not wanting the new thread to imply it was general, despite the drift we all know and accept, and Kristen and ita were riding the same train of thought. There really is no real pro to having the "et al", and although the con to having it is minor, why have a con at all, when Kristen is officially in panic mode until after the Angel premiere?
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2003 6:13:12 am PDT #5077 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not queasing about the et al, per se (double cool, yeah -- did you see how I slipped de facto in my previous post?). Just that my reluctance for a general TV thread is just as intact as it ever was, server load notwithstanding.
DXMachina - Sep 05, 2003 6:25:27 am PDT #5078 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I don't think that anyone has proposed that it be a general TV thread, though. That's certainly not my intention, because Im not in favor of one, either. If it's a concern that combining all the shows into one thread could lead to that as an unintended consequence, perhaps we should leave them in separate threads.