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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
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.
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.
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.
Well, there will now be a two week break from all deathmatch announcements anyway.
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.
Not that I care, but spaz is really quite incredibly offensive in the UK. As offensive as cripple, or more so.
Jim, how did the UK handle "Band Candy"? That's the ep where Snyder had the line that started it all.
I'm trying to think of a way to keep the word without upsetting UKistas (and I note that you disclaimed upset). Maybe, "Quotable 3: Summers, You Drive Like a Spaz"? Use the full original quote?
I would think that "Delicious Babies and Istanbul got Spazzed" is less-potentially-offensive than "You Drive Like a Spaz", but I don't mind either.
Willow also used the word, to Oz -- though in an ironic, teasing way -- in "New Moon Rising." He says how in Tibet the things he learned in order to not wolf out were all about keeping your inner cool. And then Willow says, "Good, because you were such a spaz before."
I would think that "Delicious Babies and Istanbul got Spazzed" is less-potentially-offensive than "You Drive Like a Spaz", but I don't mind either.
My gut says just the opposite --- You Drive reads to me very specifically as the Snyder quote. The other is divorced from that context, and so much more uncomfortable for me.
OTOH, I'm not in the thread and doubt I will be, so I'm'a butt out from the rest of the naming discussion.