Jon pointed me back to the cheesebutt doc, and I had some notes:

Usage

I think that's a big factor. I'll change the code to disallow refreshes [of the message center] more frequent than every five minutes.

It's now ten.

Amazing Stompy Abilities

There are several local mailing lists run through our host. Currently these are: somervillains (general Boston area); bayarea (San Francisco area), laistas (Los Angeles) and baltimoreDCistas (The DC-Baltimore corridor). Ask in Bureaucracy if you think another local list is warranted, and the Stompies will create one. To subscribe to an existing list, send email to [listname]-help @ buffistas.org for instructions.

I'm not sure how close to this we are now.

Identity and Publicness

Everything you say on Buffistas.org or its affiliate diaspora (backup) boards, WX and Peoplesforum, speaks to the other Buffistas about you. Anything you say outside of this board and its affiliates is considered backchannel, and thus not germane to the board itself. (Consensus) This includes web sites, private email, chat, journals and blogs, and so forth.

The buffistas community on LJ is a weird grey ground -- does it deserve mention?

Spoiler Policies

Currently all non-M.E. TV talk is in Natter.

Except what is in Boxed Set. Good luck with explaining that consistently. The "this is not a general TV thread" idea is repeatedly bypassed.

LotR spoiler policy is only now relevant for the extended edition of RotK, and that should be noted lest it seem it's free game.

Threads

(Similarly, although it's been discussed several times, we have never yet formally proposed the dissolution of a thread or consolidation of several threads.)

No longer ...

I skipped the voting section since my brain is too sieve like to disagree with anything.

It is possible everyone's memory doesn't suck as much as mine does, but I'll be able to ask so many fewer dumb questions when it's formatted and approved and up and stuff.

The buffistas community on LJ is a weird grey ground -- does it deserve mention?

I think the Buffistas community on LJ counts as "on-board" much as the Buffistas folder at PF does, so yes.

(That said, I can't think of any conversation that's ever been had there that didn't start "Hey, I can't get the board to load. Anyone else having problems?")

I can't think of any conversation that's ever been had there that didn't start "Hey, I can't get the board to load. Anyone else having problems?"

Every now and again someone stumbles onto it and posts a community announcement, but yeah. It's just never been mentioned officially as an offshoot of the b.org collective, and although there's a link from there to here, there's no text, you know?

We should officially embrace it.

We should officially embrace it.

Group hug!

Hmm. I dunno about that for officialness. It falls under other people's terms of service, etc., just like other backchannel.

Although, I guess, as much as pf, sure.

Yeah -- this is the only thing under our terms. All the auxiliary services (WX too) are similarly other people's.

The buffista community in LJ should definitely be included.

Except what is in Boxed Set. Good luck with explaining that consistently. The "this is not a general TV thread" idea is repeatedly bypassed.

Yeah, but we don't admit to that.

we don't admit to that.

Oh, don't think I'm not taking notes.

But seriously, that line will need to be rewritten, and Boxed Set will probably need to be explained.

My goodness, I can't believe that I ever had enough time to devote to helping with that-- let alone the voting thing.