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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
Lee - Apr 20, 2003 9:09:26 pm PDT #882 of 10005
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jessica - Apr 20, 2003 9:45:42 pm PDT #883 of 10005
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
He's suggested putting a disclaimer and re-pointer in the header -- I asked him if he could put it in each "real" thread, and also if he could remove "Buffistas" from the thread names.
I guess I see his point, but...feh. Not having that kind of control over "our" threads was why I always preferred WX.
Definitely remove "Buffistas" from the title, and also get rid of out Stors, if they're still there.
DXMachina - Apr 20, 2003 9:50:28 pm PDT #884 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I guess I see his point, but...feh. Not having that kind of control over "our" threads was why I always preferred WX.
When we first set up Diaspora Natter, Lance offered us our own folder, much as what he's given us now, but we were already pretty settled in at WX so we declined.
brenda m - Apr 20, 2003 11:20:13 pm PDT #885 of 10005
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Just ask him to drop the word "Buffista".
That seems good to me. Are there really folks out there who know where we are at PF but can't find us at WX or here? I have no problem with ceding the original space at PF (since we're set up with new threads) rather than shutting them down and forcing a conflict.
Mind, if I thought we were likely to go through this again, I might not be so conciliatory. Dropping our name from the infected threads does seem like the easiest short term solution, though.
§ ita § - Apr 21, 2003 8:17:11 am PDT #886 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are there really folks out there who know where we are at PF but can't find us at WX or here?
If we're at PF, there is no here, so people like Perkins who needed the link reposted wouldn't have easy access to the info.
Beverly - Apr 21, 2003 8:49:40 am PDT #887 of 10005
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The Buffista Yahoo! group is still functional. If both "here" and WX go down at the same time and we have to fall back on PF, the URL can be posted through the Yahoo email.
If the PF non-member blocks have teeth, then I can concede leaving pointers in each abandoned thread header. But I'd really rather not.
Just my atavism talking.
P.M. Marc - Apr 21, 2003 9:27:31 am PDT #888 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Well, considering the problem poster at issue has been reading here, she may already have the links to the new folder.
Don't know that pointers would be a problem.
§ ita § - Apr 21, 2003 9:33:45 am PDT #889 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Anywhere we put links to thenew destination is going to be pretty publically visible. Lance has stated that member folders are supposed to be access controlled, and if a PF user starts circumventing those, he will get involved.
That's good teeth.
Lee - Apr 21, 2003 10:15:39 am PDT #890 of 10005
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I also bookmarked the PF link, so I'm set.
Jon B. - Apr 21, 2003 10:10:31 pm PDT #891 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The vote is over, yes?
t edit Wow! Deena's post in press was 1 second after mine. ooooo-eeee-oooo.