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
Maybe we should add to this
Please keep all discussion of current episodes in the NAFDA threads. The UnAmerican thread is obviously a safe zone, but so are Natter and Buffista Bureaucracy.
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Please keep all discussion of current episodes in the NAFDA (North American Free Discussion Area) threads. The UnAmerican thread is obviously a safe zone, but so are Natter and Buffista Bureaucracy. NAFDA threads are marked as such in the slug line. Example: [NAFDA] Discuss Current Episodes of Sarte v Go14 here.
Edited because free discussion is NOT free trade.
Or we could link the word "NAFDA" in Etiquette to the proper spot in the FAQ?
That's a very sensible suggestion, Sophie -- I hadn't thought about it, but I think you're right that newbies trip up on spoilers most often.
Delurk and be sensible some more!
Is guac really going in the FAQ? I'm touched. I've never been FAQ'd.
Or we could link the word "NAFDA" in Etiquette to the proper spot in the FAQ?
Could do that, too.
I'd like to call attention to the [NAFDA] in the slugs, because it's easy to overlook if you don't know it's important.
Oh - And Sophie - Thanks for posting!
As far as your other suggestion about making the FAQ, etc. more prominant? My concern is that everyone has certain things they'd like to see rearranged on the page. What we've got is a compromise. There aren't
that
many things to browse through over on the left-hand side. That's not to say that things can't be improved, but I'm hesitant to move anything unless there's a huge groundswell of of support for it.
Is guac really going in the FAQ?
Yes, that is the consensus.
How about putting a link to the site etiquette in the slug at the top of the main page, (along with the FAQ link) - although the FAQ is fun and should be read, I sort of think the etiquette thing should be the very first thing a newbie reads about the site.
I think this is an incredibly good idea.
There ought to be a Buffista Dictionary. Things like "Nilly," "Meara," "____ likes carrots," "HSQ," etc.
Not in the FAQ or etiquette section; just a general idea. Because we actually have a fairly dense, layered idiolect.
Jon, I can't remember: can we do bold in slugs? I know we can link.
If we can do bold in slugs, should we perhaps bold the [NAFDA] part of things?
