remember?

Really?! Aww, you're just yankin' my ch... Really?!

The OED agrees, remember?

Seriously? My find is for nought then. It is correct as is. My MW doesn't make the distinction. Stoopid MW.

Really?! Aww, you're just yankin' my ch... Really?!

Skimmer!

Yeah. It does. I mentioned it in one of the threads a couple days ago, either Natter or Minearverse.

Q. Where did it all begin? A. In the beginning there was Salon Table Talk, and the Buffistas met one another on Salon Table Talk, and it was a free Web-posting board provided by online magazine Salon, and it was good. In August 2001 Table Talk moved from being free to being a for-pay service, which was not so good. And lo, the Buffistas were sent out into the desert, and came unto an oasis, and rested there, and it was called WorldCrossing, which had pictures, and it was good too. But finally the Buffistas caught sight of the promised land, and it was called The Phoenix Board. It was ad-free. It was Buffista-built. In short, it was perfect. So the weary Buffistas laid down their loads and decided they would wander no more.

Should there be something in there about how Table Talk encouraged people to use their real names, and that there’s a tendency to do that here? …. Lo! Salon encourages people to use their real names, and most/many people did, and also use their real names here. In August 2001 ….

Q. How do I register at this here Phoenix Board? A. First, go to the registration page (duh!). Fill out the online form with your user name and a valid email address, and then click the "OK" Button. An email will be sent to you with confirmation of registration and instructions on how to activate your account.

Adding: … Button. Many people here use their real names. An email ….

Q. What is the Phoenix board? And what's with the name? A. After the evacuation of TT, we decided to create our own forums rather than relying on other organizations to sponsor discussion boards. We camped out at WX while the Phoenix board was developed by a truly extraordinary group of Buffistas. And the name? Suggested by another extraordinary Buffista (Betsy Hanes Perry). We're rising from the ashes and all. The Phoenix Board opened on September 17, 2002. We have an annual F2F (face to face) that moves from left coast to right coast to middle America (perhaps Canada one day!), mini F2Fs during the year, and almost all the regular post-ers have met in person; many know each other well & hang out in real life.

OR, maybe

How are you different from any other Internet board?

The ways are too vast to count, but among them: Salon encouraged people to use their real names, and most/many people did, with the result that many of us use real names here. We tend to know each other not just in cyberspace. Many Buffistas have become good friends in real life and hang out regularly in their geographic meatspace. The vast majority of regular posting Buffistas have met each other at least once. We have an annual F2F (face to face) that moves from left coast to right coast to middle America (perhaps Canada one day!), and any good news is an occasion to get together, from celebrating an engagement, commiserating over a contract lost, or getting together for dinner and drinks to meet an out of town Buffistas who’s traveling through for business or pleasure. .

Q. What's with all those cool cartoon versions of the cast? A. Those are StorTroopers. You can build your own Stor at [link] . Several talented people played around with creating Stors to represent the cast, and before we knew it, we had a gallery.

Delete this? Put it in a history section?

Acronyms, saved from my newbie days:

TAR=The Amazing Race.

HoYay=Homoeroticism, Yay! It was originally a MBTV thread started by our own jengod, who subsequently got kicked off TwoP.

Thing is it doesn't feel to me like most people use their real names here, it feels much more like a 50/50 split. Certainly less folks use nicknames here than other places, but I don't think I'd say most.

What about this in the context of a FAQ?

Kat - Mar 15, 2004 7:09:33 pm PST #5758 of 8523 Mark

Random aside:

I just finished this great book called Join Me about an accidental collective that got started and perpetuated by this guy in England (and yes, for the record, I've joined and now am an official joinee).

Anyway, he keeps trying to say "It's not a cult! It's a collective." And I think I have to start using that to explain the Buffistas. We aren't weird internet people with an almost cult-like fannish tendency. We're a collective.

Isn't the Borg a collective?

I wrote this really long post about newbie-acclimation while thinking about this topic, and now the conversation has moved on. Is it worth posting, or do you all feel that you've come to enough of a consensus to move on and finalize the FAQ? I am not fishing for an excuse to Tolstoy-post; it is an honest request for what the b.org preference is. Thanks!

I'd say post it, Kristin.