Thanks, jengod!
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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
Jesse - Sep 16, 2003 11:00:42 am PDT #5288 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Liese S. - Sep 16, 2003 11:53:57 am PDT #5289 of 10005
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Cool! Yay, Jesse! Yay, jengod!
Also, Cindy, I should probably clarify that I wasn't apathetically and somewhat sluggishly opposing your suggestion, I was apathetically and somewhat sluggishly opposing Victor's. (I think, Victor's.) Putting it front-page, was what I was opposing, though not very vehemently.
Anyway, I guess I should verbalize a little on why I get squeamish. There are two aspects, one valid and one quirky. The first is that I'm proud of our existence as a donation-based, advertising free board. The Amazon affiliate program, while a) free money and b) relatively unobtrusive, is still advertising. I don't want to look at Amazon's corporate name, or have reinforced its brand placement, every day. This would apply to any affiliate program, or other advertising.
The second aspect is a just-me thing, and it's very old. I personally dislike Amazon and would not buy from them if I could avoid it, because of the one-click patent mess. It's just a geek thing, but it's one I feel pretty strongly about, so the lower profile our pimping Amazon can be, the better. Would I feel better about it if it were bn.com or half.com or whatever? Probably, but then see objection the first.
Now, of course, if people are already buying from Amazon, that's great, no problem. And if those people want to give buffistas free money that's great, and we should make it easy for them. But, I feel, not at the cost of giving up our mindshare.
Victor's suggestion, of course, was just a donate-here link, which is not advertising, but not overwhelmingly needed at the moment, so back to, eh, regarding that.
Cindy - Sep 16, 2003 12:28:48 pm PDT #5290 of 10005
Nobody
I should probably clarify that I wasn't apathetically and somewhat sluggishly opposing your suggestion, I was apathetically and somewhat sluggishly opposing Victor's.
Hee! And gotcha.
Cindy - Sep 17, 2003 3:56:02 pm PDT #5291 of 10005
Nobody
We're only a little more than 100 posts away from needing a new Buffy Quotables Thread.
amych - Sep 17, 2003 4:01:42 pm PDT #5292 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
In honor of the deathmatches:
Buffy Quotables 2: Two quotes enter, one quote leaves.
Elena - Sep 17, 2003 4:05:07 pm PDT #5293 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.
Oooh, amych, I like.
But, um, we're just under 1000 posts away from needing a new thread. That'll take a couple of days.
JenP - Sep 17, 2003 6:05:16 pm PDT #5294 of 10005
Victor's suggestion, of course, was just a donate-here link, which is not advertising
And I like this idea for the sheer convenience and remindery-ness of something I might otherwise forget (Amazon/free money)
Love the title suggestion, amych!
DCJensen - Sep 17, 2003 6:14:25 pm PDT #5295 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.
For practice last week I set up a "donate" link for my paypal account on my caps site. I don't really expect any donatons, but I did wonder how easy it was.
Peasy.
The paypal site walks you through and generates the code you need and you just slap it where you want in your website.
Cindy - Sep 18, 2003 2:28:51 am PDT #5296 of 10005
Nobody
But, um, we're just under 1000 posts away from needing a new thread. That'll take a couple of days.
I'd like to buy a zero, please. (Sorry guys.)
Am-Chau Yarkona - Sep 18, 2003 3:34:56 am PDT #5297 of 10005
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Would it be evil of me to suggest deathmatching possible titles for the quotables thread?