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.

I guess that piece of code never made it into production.

And this all starts to get in to the territory of "you know the O.C. posts in...every non-show-specific thread drive me batshit". Which they really, REALLY do.

Frank, I know this isn't what's on the table, but I just wanted to say it bothers me too. Not just because of the scroll-past-it-factor, but because I've seen enough of the show to know I want to catch up when it goes into reruns and there's no way I'll be able to find the posts about each episode when they're scattered throughout 10 different threads. I'm hoping we can launch a seperate OC thread after the Angel finale, when we'll be talking about rejiggering our threads anyhow.

One reason the deathmatches went more quickly the first time is simply because I posted entire brackets at a time, so you'd vote on as many as four vote pairings at once

I was surprised that Elena didn't do them that way, because they seemed to go *so* much faster and so much more smoothly -- the current method seems extremely drawn out, which I suspect is upping people's irritation.

But I'm not bothered by the announcements in press. It's one or two posts a day to scroll past, which seems negligible to me.

Double-post, sorry.