OK - doing a quick threadsuck of press - just a sample to show the variety of posts:
1) Post from Victor Sept 26 2002 - a Poetry festival
3) Spidra LE BAL DES VAMPIRES
11) Lori - environmental cleanup day
23) Daniel Jensen - announces creation of spoiler sluts chatroom
30) Lori - Announces availablity of Margartet Cho tape for Cho fans
105) Sophia Brooks - announces never before seen Twin Peaks pilot
Posts 167 and 168 - recall of unsafe diving equipment
Post 177 - Jen offers a laptop for sale
Post 196 Jim donations for Glen Quinn Memorial fund
Post 246 - Punk Rock Aerobics
Post 254 - Cindy - Infant Formula recall
Post 266 Besty H.p - Newest Harry Potter book
Post 273 - Consuela - San Francisco Peace March
Followup announcements by JZ and Betsy on it.
Post 293 Java Cat 2003 National Legal Fiction Writing Competition for Lawyers
In other words Press has always been for a variety of things including politics. The common thread -
something upcoming, not past.
Something you can attend or do - buy a ticket, come to a rally, take part in a competition, submit a paper, make a phone call send a letter.
So if we are going to suddenly restrict it, this is a change in culture - and I think needs a strong argument.
Can I ask a Stompy question? How exactly do I see the "Buffista Calendar"? Someone mentioned seeing an anniversary listed there -- I'd love to know when to wish people the happy.
Nilly owns the calendar, and she's very diligent about making the announcements from it, so everyone knows when to wish.
For all I know, she keeps in that wonderful thing she calls a brain.
Thank you, ita! (I'm sorry if this is Natter -- please stomp me here if I should have put my thanks elsewhere.)
For all I know, she keeps in that wonderful thing she calls a brain.
I think it involves a code based on strategically placed knots on a piece of twine.
FYI:
23) Daniel Jenson - announces creation of spoiler sluts chatroom
1. Jensen
2. It was a web site, not a chatroom.
Not that it matters, except, you know, it is my name....
> 3) Daniel Jenson - announces creation of spoiler sluts chatroom
1. Jensen
Sorry about the name. corrected. You know. Typo boy:
2. It was a web site, not a chatroom
Just going by the announcement which said
the host of SpoilerSluts.com has creadted a chat room,
So that was the text of the announcement.
And Gar, large portions of those are what caused Jengod to pop in with her "ummm?" several months ago.
Press was ORIGINALLY created to have one place for BIG announcements that would NORMALLY have spammed each freakin' thread back at WX.
Other use, she's feature creep, and it's annoying.
But "feature creep" was there almost from the beginning. Not a new thing. And a lot of things that are being labeled feature creep are the kind of things that would otherwise spam multiple threads -so press doing its job.. New Harry Potter coming out? Literarary, Natter and bitches... Demo in San Francisco; Natter and Bitches. In point of fact Bitches is very much a natter thread; so almost any general annoucement could go in both places.
In my mind, Press is there for things that it's important for people to know right now. Things like a new Harry Potter book coming out, it could be discussed in Literary, it could be discussed in Natter, it could be discussed in Bitches, it could be discussed in UnAmerican, and it might be discussed in all of them, when it comes up in the conversation. But it's not the sort of thing that, in pre-Press days, would be posted in every thread.
On the other hand, things like a board vote, or scheduled downtime, are things that belong there. Things like someone having a party, that info needs to get to a bunch of people within a set period of time, and the "bunch of people" isn't concentrated in any one thread, so Press works. Things like, "There's a demonstration, I'm going, anyone want to go with me?" fit into that same category. Something like, "There's a demonstration, thought maybe some of you would want to go," isn't quite the same, at least in my mind:it's more advertising and less coordinating. ("Coordinating" isn't exactly the word I want, but it's late.)
