It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
Deathmatch Xander is quite the machine.
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billytea - Feb 25, 2004 5:21:29 am PST #6872 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Elena - Feb 25, 2004 5:23:26 am PST #6873 of 10005
Thanks for all the fish.
So, and correct me if I'm wrong, the problem is that people find the announcements tedious?
Connie Neil - Feb 25, 2004 5:25:31 am PST #6874 of 10005
brillig
No more tedious than all the "Hi, I live in a town where there are lots of Buffistas and we're getting together to do something cool that you can't get to because you live in a dull backwater" announcements.
Not that I'm bitter ;)
Jon B. - Feb 25, 2004 5:28:39 am PST #6875 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I haven't minded the announcements, but I'm not sure they're needed. The death matches are pretty much the only thing going on in Buffy Quotable right now. If there are new messages there, 9 times out of 10 it means that there's a match going on. I don't need to read a Press announcement to tell me that.
Fred Pete - Feb 25, 2004 5:33:42 am PST #6876 of 10005
Ann, that's a ferret.
Maybe limit to no more than one announcement a day?
One post a day is easy to scroll by. And, in an inference from others' comments, it's unlikely that any post in Press will interest everyone.
I looked at Press back to mid-January, and there were a few days where Elena made 2 announcements.
Steph L. - Feb 25, 2004 5:40:16 am PST #6877 of 10005
I look more rad than Lutheranism
My feeling is pretty much summed up by this:
It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
Yes. "Problem" might be too strong a word, but it does make reading the Press thread a bit tedious for non-participants.
But, whatever. I can scroll.
...and also this:
I haven't minded the announcements, but I'm not sure they're needed. The death matches are pretty much the only thing going on in Buffy Quotable right now. If there are new messages there, 9 times out of 10 it means that there's a match going on. I don't need to read a Press announcement to tell me that.
Nilly - Feb 25, 2004 5:44:31 am PST #6878 of 10005
Swouncing
I'm with Jon - I don't mind the announcements, I read Press before I go to the Quotable thread, but it's quite obvious when a deathmatch is going on based upon the rapid accumulation of posts in the Quotable thread.
Megan E. - Feb 25, 2004 5:48:31 am PST #6879 of 10005
Well, there will now be a two week break from all deathmatch announcements anyway.
Wolfram - Feb 25, 2004 6:31:43 am PST #6880 of 10005
Visilurking
Just to be clear, I'd never found the word spaz to be offensive before, and I've used it plenty. I don't think the show's use was meant offensively and I'm not adamant that it not be used if the context is verbified or whatever. Also there's a lot of (non-buffista) folks who'd find a thread named Spike's Bitches offensive. It's all about the context, baby.
I don't find the press announcements tedious or absolutely necessary. So I agree with everyone.
ION, I'd really like to see the Spoilage Lite thread recreated if there's a lot of interest. Otherwise, no biggie.
Jim - Feb 25, 2004 6:56:27 am PST #6881 of 10005
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Not that I care, but spaz is really quite incredibly offensive in the UK. As offensive as cripple, or more so.