'Not Fade Away'
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I also bookmarked the PF link, so I'm set.
The vote is over, yes?
t edit Wow! Deena's post in press was 1 second after mine. ooooo-eeee-oooo.
Jon, you don't know how hard it was to wait that long. I wanted to give until 10 minutes after midnight in case my mail was slower than usual -- but I'd been counting as they came in, with a spreadsheet, so it wasn't hard to post as soon as it was over.