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.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
RobertH - Mar 13, 2004 7:43:05 pm PST #7362 of 10005
Disaffected college student
Susan W. - Mar 13, 2004 8:35:03 pm PST #7363 of 10005
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
FWIW, I've always had the same experience as Dana--hitting Read New brings up new posts in the oldest threads first.
Connie Neil - Mar 13, 2004 8:45:54 pm PST #7364 of 10005
brillig
My Read News goes through the subscription list too.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2004 8:49:02 pm PST #7365 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I guess that piece of code never made it into production.
Lyra Jane - Mar 14, 2004 5:02:42 am PST #7366 of 10005
Up with the sun
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.
Lyra Jane - Mar 14, 2004 5:02:45 am PST #7367 of 10005
Up with the sun
Double-post, sorry.
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2004 5:23:41 am PST #7368 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Lyra Jane - Mar 14, 2004 6:43:12 am PST #7369 of 10005
Up with the sun
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.
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2004 6:47:47 am PST #7370 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't imagine opening a non-MEish show thread when there are no new episodes coming for months.
I love the OC, but it generates maybe 20 posts a week. Long, dry summer.
Lyra Jane - Mar 14, 2004 6:59:41 am PST #7371 of 10005
Up with the sun
I think any TV show would generate more posts if it had its own thread. That's a given.
I agree summer isn't the most exciting time -- what would be your preference?