What if we just retitle the thread "Lord of the Rings: Dude, Where's my Precious?" and leave the slug as is? I'm old, my memory's going, humor me--was most of the FotR natter on WX?
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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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Beverly - Dec 12, 2003 7:35:55 pm PST #6214 of 10005
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
amych - Dec 12, 2003 7:59:55 pm PST #6215 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
was most of the FotR natter on WX?
IIRC, we had the FotR thread on WX, and when we moved over here the timing just happened to be about right to start up TTT discussion. So this is the first time we've really had to think about thread closing/renaming/whatev.
Elena - Dec 12, 2003 9:11:16 pm PST #6216 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.
I don't think that we should just rename the thread (any thread, really). Was there a particular reason why we don't just let the current thread run its course?
P.M. Marc - Dec 12, 2003 9:31:05 pm PST #6217 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
There is precedent for renaming a thread. Bitchy Fic went general, and is now Buffista Fic, for example.
I think it's just to keep the subject/thread agreement.
Elena - Dec 12, 2003 10:38:12 pm PST #6218 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.
Yeah, I know. And I never thought that was particularly fair to the PPO folk.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 13, 2003 1:33:30 am PST #6219 of 10005
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Another vote for "We named the dog 'Strider'."
Although part of me would actually want to call my dog Telcontar. t /geek
Kate P. - Dec 13, 2003 1:32:37 pm PST #6220 of 10005
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I'm in favor, though I don't care too much, of starting a new thread. I am strongly in favor of "Well, I'm back" for either new title or new thread.
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2003 1:50:38 pm PST #6221 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd prefer a new thread because otherwise the current beautiful title disappears forever.
Kate P. - Dec 13, 2003 2:16:09 pm PST #6222 of 10005
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, good point.
DebetEsse - Dec 13, 2003 2:19:10 pm PST #6223 of 10005
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I think it's also a pretty safe bet that we'd be needing a new thread in pretty short order, as I'm fairly certain that we'll talk enough after the rest of us have seen it to finish off this one. If that is or could influence anyone's opinion on the new vs. renaming issue.