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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
If Jon B advocates a change, say, preferential voting (I think i can joke about this now, Jon. If I'm wrong, let me know and I'll change it)
Just so's you know -- not offended. I've joked about it here myself on several occasions. I probably spent more social capital on Prfffffl than I should have, but learned a lot.
change isn't really a popular thing around here.
This being the most important lesson.
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I probably spent more social capital on Prfffffl than I should have
Hey, look, everyone, the shock treatments worked! Jon can't even say the words anymore!!
Nah, seriously, I hope that suggestions are always welcome around here -- but tone is just so damned important. And I think that's sometimes a little less obvious around here than it is in a lot of places online, just because we are so closely knit, and so many of us know each other IRL. We do hear the tones of voices in a lot of people's posts, and when we can't "hear" someone that way, that's jarring in itself.
So, Wolf (although you're probably gone), I'm chiming in with another round of What Deena Said. I'd much rather get to know you better and learn to hear you as you intend than get annoyed that That Lawyer Guy Is Being Argumentative Again. And I'll admit I've thought the latter at times in the past.
Just FYI, our back-up boards on WorldCrossing and PeoplesForum are also Buffista Zones, and are subject to the same etiquette rules as the Phoenix.
As suggested, I added this to the short-etiquette page.
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And I'm in favor of posting the suspension/banning in Press, so everyone knows, and there the matter will rest.
Bureacracy 1 is showing up in my message center. Is this normal? I'm probably subscribed; I'll go unsub.
Edit: that did the job.
Edit 2: thank you Jon.
Is this normal?
It was moved from the sidebar to make room. Unsubbing should do it. t edit And it did!
What kat said, basically. (incidentally, you know another word for "social capital"? WHUFFIE!!!! IJS...) I've found the endless wrangling in Bureacracy recently a bore (as I my have mentioned) because this site is, from my POV, right - I share the assumptions about what this community is, where it came from - hell, even how the site should look and feel. But for someone who doesn't (to use a notional example) realise that our Message Center is a much improved version of the TT one, then it just seems like we're working from a bunch of fuzzy assumptions.
I think that there are a few posters (and fair play to them) who feel we should have a written constitution. But, probably 'cos I'm British, I think the Buffista Common Law worked perfectly well, and don't see much point in codifying it. The rules of Buffistaville are whatever we say they are. "We" being all the Buffistas, from Agnes, Dr Satan and Hellish, to Wolfram, Deena and whoevers just registered.