Hi, Frank.
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Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
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.
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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.
I'm hoping we can launch a seperate OC thread after the Angel finale, when we'll be talking about rejiggering our threads anyhow.
During the off-season?
During the off-season?
Isn't that when we did the big reorg last year?
I honestly don't care, but I thought consensus on thread proliferation was at not opening any new threads until we were able to close (or expect a drastic reduction in the number of posts in) the ones we have now, as with Angel's cancellation.