'The Killer In Me'
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
That having been said, I do not think that Beej was unduly piled on
After going back and looking (after I'd written saying otherwise) she definitely was not. I mean, like 20 posts passed before 'Suela said anything. And then another twenty before (Allyson?) and then a bunch before Deb. That's not the whole board coming down on you. And everyone made it clear that they were not irritated on behalf of anyone else.
If I'm a sock ANYTHING it's one of those monkeys.
WITH pants.
So I volunteered to combine DX and Dana's recent FAQ update into a One Big Update.
I'll have lots of questions and need input.
First thing:
Before I've even gotten to the FAQ - I noticed that two things need to be changed on the Site Etiquette bulletted list.
I'm just gonna list what is wrong (for public disclosure and double checking purposes, I will make one big list eventually).
Spoiler Policy - Third bullet: Delete the last sentence that applies to Spoiler Lite threads.
Bureau - Tenth bullet: Link goes to Bureau 1. Should go to Bureau 2. (The link is to ask admin. questions and 1 is closed.)
edit: x post with BBaBB
Spoiler Policy - Third bullet: Delete the last sentence that applies to Spoiler Lite threads.
Bureau - Tenth bullet: Link goes to Bureau 1. Should go to Bureau 2. (The link is to ask admin. questions and 1 is closed.)
Done and done.
YAY Jon!
YAY Jon!
fits msbelle for a pink cheerleader outfit
Get out of the dressing room, David!
t peeks through keyhole
use your imagination boys, I'm in Large sweats and I'm stinky from krav - reality is a bitch.
also? YAY! tina for finding the mistakes and YAY! Dana and DX for doing updates to the FAQ.
Skimmed the Nilly'ed posts from/responding to Beej, and feeling some regret about not saying to her, "Hmm, you're bouncing around like a hyperactive bunny. Chill a bit, you're a bit too much." I've done it - that being too enthusiastic about something and alienating the people who were doing it to start with. It's hard. One means well. FWIW, she did offer to help at the F2F in concrete ways, which is a nice thing to do.
I meant to post this way earlier, that my experience as a newbie was that I took the admonitions to pay attention to the FAQ very seriously, and I studied it. When I had a question about anything, I'd read it again. I clicked on links. I read that thing many times over and it still didn't answer all my Qs. When I would go somewhere to ask a Q, folks would snipe at me to read the FAQ. In another universe, I'd offer to help on the FAQ, but, not another universe.
FWIW, she did offer to help at the F2F in concrete ways, which is a nice thing to do
she did. and I'm sure that she thought that the way to get on our good side was to be as helpful as possible. I don't fault her for that. I just think that she should have realized that the gentle admonitions were clues to change her behavior. We are masters of the snark, we _mock_ nice people.