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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.

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Cindy - Sep 05, 2003 6:41:04 am PDT #5082 of 10005
Nobody

I think it was the other way around. The reason some people mentioned for changing it was so as not to explicitly encourage thread drift because of the concern over the server connection problem.

I don't think it was a matter of encouraging (or not) thread drift, just not advertising what drift there already is. I can't Nilly the posts from Kristen and possibly Kat when this first started, but I know they were there, and the general (bullshit? maybe, I don't know) consensus was that the name should specify the three shows, and that's pretty much it. Why is this an issue that is causing such resistance?


Jessica - Sep 05, 2003 6:43:44 am PDT #5083 of 10005
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I am SO confused. Are we arguing over whether or not the thread title should have "et al" in it?


§ ita § - Sep 05, 2003 6:45:04 am PDT #5084 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Are we arguing over whether or not the thread title should have "et al" in it?

I'm not. I'm all I can speak for.


Katie M - Sep 05, 2003 6:48:46 am PDT #5085 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

For the record, I don't care. (Though I do now have this creepy feeling that I may be quoting Spike there.)


Kat - Sep 05, 2003 7:25:45 am PDT #5086 of 10005
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm good with

Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape

I don't think that the et al is really going to make or break us, nor do I think it will foster nor infringe on the usual drift. I just think leaving it out makes it clear that the drift, while sometimes necessary, is not the intended purpose of the thread.


§ ita § - Sep 05, 2003 7:42:00 am PDT #5087 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kat makes sense.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 05, 2003 7:49:57 am PDT #5088 of 10005
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I like Kat's suggestion, too. Count that as a vote for the title from a Farscape poster.


tina f. - Sep 05, 2003 7:52:48 am PDT #5089 of 10005

Smallville lovah' and general appreciator of the HoYay here. Also good with

Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape


Glamcookie - Sep 05, 2003 9:34:35 am PDT #5090 of 10005
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Count me among those disappointed in the Angel Spoilers Lite thread being closed. I don't usually vote because I'm not a super active Buffista so I didn't even know ASL was on the chopping block. I think it's a bummer to close a thread that deals with an active (as in uncancelled) ME series. I post in Music and Movies but it makes more sense to me to lose those rather than actual Buffista topics if space/bandwidth is an issue. I'm a sad panda.


Wolfram - Sep 05, 2003 10:58:13 am PDT #5091 of 10005
Visilurking

t makes room in the sad-but-not-dwelling-on-it corner for gloomcookie