If I'm a sock ANYTHING it's one of those monkeys.
WITH pants.
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'Conviction (1)'
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
Trudy Booth - Mar 29, 2004 4:32:25 pm PST #7863 of 10005
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
tina f. - Mar 29, 2004 4:34:52 pm PST #7864 of 10005
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
Jon B. - Mar 29, 2004 5:03:34 pm PST #7865 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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.
msbelle - Mar 29, 2004 5:11:38 pm PST #7866 of 10005
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
YAY Jon!
DavidS - Mar 29, 2004 5:14:16 pm PST #7867 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
YAY Jon!
fits msbelle for a pink cheerleader outfit
Jon B. - Mar 29, 2004 5:15:48 pm PST #7868 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Get out of the dressing room, David!
t peeks through keyhole
msbelle - Mar 29, 2004 5:22:23 pm PST #7869 of 10005
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
Java cat - Mar 29, 2004 5:22:46 pm PST #7870 of 10005
Not javachik
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.
Vortex - Mar 29, 2004 5:43:44 pm PST #7871 of 10005
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 29, 2004 5:57:01 pm PST #7872 of 10005
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Well I know when I de-lurked I got a nice welcome, as so many do. I think I made a joke about the "scary internet people" which got some attention and things were fine. Then I was just here - one of the buffistas. Noticed sometimes; ignored others - just like everyone I suspect.
Of course, then I got into a couple of bureaucracy kerfuffles that I probably should have been a bit less intense about (certainly one I didn't have that strong an opinion on, but somehow got my back all up about it anyway).
Coming on too strong is definitely not a good way to de-lurk, at least on average, IMO.