Okay, because I didn't know that you weren't around a lot (though I also don't remember you mentioning the irritation before).

I'm not much around the other threads. Who are the old Buffistas not much around who have been irritated by it? Sincerely, because AFAIK, the people who have posted about being irritated are around a lot.

I used to be around a lot. I'm not now. I'm mainly here and in Tim's thread, except on show nights. Occasionally, I pop to the end of something if I get a moment. This is a short-term time thing, that should at some point clear up. But the last couple months have been frantic as all hell.

But the first time I remember someone popping in and mentioning the irritation with Press content (pre-Deathmatch, IIRC), it was Jengod. (And the content in question was the "so and so died" variety.)

Okay, because I didn't know that you weren't around a lot (though I also don't remember you mentioning the irritation before).

It makes sense, Elena, that you wouldn't know I'm not here a lot, because we don't frequent the same threads usually.

But I did mention my feelings about the death match announcements here: Kat "Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer" Feb 25, 2004 4:40:00 pm PST (please excuse the grammar issue of subject-verb agreement in that post! I was in the middle of working on a big project and my brain was mostly dead)

Okay, Kat. I had a bunch of posts to catch up on, and obviously blanked on who posted what and when. I was not questioning your veracity.

Also, feeling INCREDIBLY stupid and slow here, but who is Frankenbuddha?

No need for that. I'm in the process of dropping the incredibly random and arbitrary obscure Monty Python reference that was my original user name, and replace it with something resembling (or actually) my own. So the "Frank" part is the real name. I just thought a transitional name would be less of pain to deal with all around (plus, Frankenbuddha has a nice surreal quality to it, I think). I'M finding it odd to see on my posts, and am curious how long it will take to break people of calling me Ken/get people to call me Frank here/get used to people calling me Frank here.

Hi, Frank.

Hi back, Robert.

It's been something I've been debating for a while. And after meeting some of the Buffistas F2F last night, I figured "As good a time as any".

I'm overexplaining again, aren't I?

Not from where I'm sitting. I started out with the intention of having one pseudonym on the Internet six years ago, and started to phase it out a few months later when I started to get to know some people well enough to want them to call me by my first name.

FWIW, I've always had the same experience as Dana--hitting Read New brings up new posts in the oldest threads first.

My Read News goes through the subscription list too.