Thank you for caring, Kristin. Otherwise I look quite insane, and we can't be having that, can we?
Giles ,'Touched'
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
Steph: I was just thinking that there are a lot more Buffista-specific words that aren't in the FAQ.
Dana: I think that's the sound of someone volunteering...
Tina: I have a list started and will add to it as people throw em out there. If they come with definitions and/or Nilly'd links to their origin - all the more helpful.
Oh - Steph - if you want to do this - please do. If not, I have no problem doing it myself.
If you already have a list going, then feel free to continue!
Also, perhaps the FAQ should acknowledge that there are groups of people who IM all the time, email all the time, journal all the time.
I don't think that's a great idea -- it just enforces the "Cool kids/cabal/b.org Illuminati" myth.
The social capital concept-- and I wasn't a big fan of the term first, either-- is not used to justify rude behavior, which is what you're suggesting, Java. I think what you're seeing is that it's often used to excuse it. In other words, yes, you've been rude, but we overlook it because so far, it's not particularly indicative of most of your experience; plus, you've proved that you're not ruining everyone's experience daily. And I'm OK with that. This is a clique. It's not a democracy.
What Shawn said, w/r/t social capital. It exists in meatspace, so why on earth wouldn't it exist in an online community that has the level of friendships (and marrying each other, now!) that we have?
I'd even go so far (and is why I'm synonym-happy on the topic) that "social capital" is used to describe a perfectly normal phenomenon. So whether I ever speak those words, there's public goodwill/understanding that carries weight AND it's something that can be gained or spent.
"Pecking order" doesn't inherently express the idea that I can move around in it. "Gazebo" might, if we work it right and start early.
It's not a democracy.
So true. The "citizen" analogy is often used, but ... so not a government here. It could never be.
I ike the slug line w/ etiquette sample.
"Pecking order" doesn't inherently express the idea that I can move around in it. "Gazebo" might, if we work it right and start early.
As in "Wow, when Lee picked up the dinner check for everyone, she added a whole new wing on her gazebo!"
My gazebo brings all the boys to the yard.
My gazebo brings all the boys to the yard.
Where they attack your gazebo with their longswords?
The social capital concept...often used to excuse rude behaviour. ...This is a clique.
If the above is accepted SOP, should it be noted in Ettiquette?
Given the above, the below proved misleading, at least to me:
The Buffistas are an inclusive, welcoming, and flame-free community. ...If you make personal attacks or offensive posts, or try to start a fight, you will be shunned.