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
Finally, I feel obliged to toss this out, despite the anti-proliferationist stance: Maybe we need a deathmatch thread.
I have to disagree. In that huge-ass vote we had some months back, the decision was made to keep the Buffy Quotables thread open
only until
the Buffy death matches were done. Then it would roll into the main Buffy thread. If we decide to do an Angel Quotables deathmatch, well, with Angel likely ending in a few months I'd think we could do the same thing with the Angel Quotables thread (i.e. hold death matches after the finale and then close the thread).
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I Nilly'ed the voting result:
DXMachina "Sunnydale Press" Aug 27, 2003 4:06:03 am PDT
Heh. I have to point out that the six month no reconsideration time limit on that vote ends *tomorrow*.
running , hiding, stapling fingers together.
Heh. I have to point out that the six month no reconsideration time limit on that vote ends *tomorrow*.
AHA!
But, let's consider tabling this (in the removing-it American sense) until Angel is finished. At that point I think the board should address issues about thread and board structure.
I do think this thread has been much quieter because we did work our way (painfully, but thoroughly) through some of the larger issues. And I think we had to to do that. At least what I read before on the dynamics of discussion group cultures, ultimately some kind of structure is required or longstanding frictions and disagreements or disciplinary needs tear the group apart. I think we successfully implemented a very light-handed structure that works for us, and moreover is held in common understanding. We know how things are supposed to work around here now.
FWIW, I moderate a forum equivalent to Bureaucracy on another board, and I think this one runs just fine.
Things are discussed ad infinitum, but I think that's a strength of this board. If it were run by fiat (even group fiat) it would run smoother, but we'd be trading away a lot of what makes Buffistas Buffistae.
t Running in to grab Buffistae ass during the group hug.
It would have to be an Abelian group, as most of us would need to commute.
groan
I do think this thread has been much quieter because we did work our way (painfully, but thoroughly) through some of the larger issues.
Agreed. Definitely painful at times, but I think we've gotten a much better sense of how we want things to work, and can apply that to a lot of other stuff that's come up since then, without having to go through the same types of arguments each time. (I'm trying to figure out a way to say what I mean here without using the word "isomorphic," and I'm failing. There's got to be some word that means "having the same structure" that isn't quite so math-centric, right?)
