Look's like someone beat me to it.
t edit Hah! It wasn't intentional, but I'm leaving that apostrophe in look's in... :)
It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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
Jon B. - Mar 24, 2004 12:39:30 pm PST #7666 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2004 12:41:23 pm PST #7667 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
looks around innocently
Glamcookie - Mar 24, 2004 12:45:05 pm PST #7668 of 10005
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
BITCHES BATH BASH
If you say it long enough and loud enough, mayhaps it'll happen one day...
Steph L. - Mar 26, 2004 10:22:30 am PST #7669 of 10005
I look more rad than Lutheranism
There's an open bold tag in this post: sumi "Spike's Bitches 15: But You Treat Me Like A Man" Mar 26, 2004 12:16:44 pm PST
Burrell - Mar 27, 2004 8:54:41 am PST #7670 of 10005
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Of course, to go totally flamebaity, I'm really anti-political posts in there, period, full stop, end of story, bang. Joss or DX could be running for president, and I'd be uncomfortable with it.
Whereas I think that DX's political campaign is precisely the sort of thing Press is for. Because he's one of us, and I thought that Press was for posting the Big News. The example someone gave once was something like, the annoucement to send vibes for my book contract goes in Beep Me, the announcement that it's being published by Knopf goes in Press.
Jess M. - Mar 29, 2004 5:42:43 am PST #7671 of 10005
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Does anyone know whom I email to have my new email address added to the Buffista yahoo email list? It's still going to my old address.
Astarte - Mar 29, 2004 5:46:41 am PST #7672 of 10005
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
If it's a yahoo list you need to change it on your profile for that list. Sign in to www.yahoogroups.com with your Yahoo ID, go to the group page and designate a new email.
Jess M. - Mar 29, 2004 5:52:32 am PST #7673 of 10005
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
That seems to have worked! thanks Astarte
Astarte - Mar 29, 2004 5:54:16 am PST #7674 of 10005
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
My pleasure.
DavidS - Mar 29, 2004 7:46:51 am PST #7675 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ahh, the dreaded right-hand threads where sour stomachs are fomented.
So, after watching Beej get the smackdown in Minearverse I would like to broach (to a chorus of groans, no doubt) the issue of newbie handling and indoctrination. I know she caused bristling and, as accurately noted in the rebuttals, crossed some cultural lines which are known but invisible.
Could we be a little gentler with the newbies, though? It takes a while to get the lay of the land, and her posts were not flamebaity or purposefully offensive, but shading towards lecture-speak. Which we're all familiar with. It was her second smackdown in a short period of time, and she apologized for the first one. I realize that the surest way to rile the board is being patronizing, but I don't think she intended offense.
While I agree that it helps to get to know the culture for a while before posting, we can probably afford to swallow our ire a bit, and more gently redirect folks.
Tone is subtle and I think the tone that we cultivate here (with much work) has a great deal to do with our community's longevity. It encourages interest and engagning talk, but is respectful and civil at the same time. Plus funny.
Even in a fraught political debate, though, I think we could rise above and make the effort to suggest how things could be better worded, instead of simply saying, in effect, shut yer yap until you've earned your stripes.
Otherwise, instead of being inclusive and welcoming new blood, we run the danger of being insular.