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
The problem with the social capital concept is, as you point out, that it's not uniform.
That's not a problem. As noted way upthread, the point is that it
isn't
uniform. Your social capital bank
with me
is different than it is with Kristin, because I've spent more time with you, and I've seen you drive people to the airport at 5:30 in the morning.
I'm bugged by the cat-shaving. Because shaved cats can be some fugly animals.
Shaved maybe, but naturally hairless I've grown to like from the Sphinx cat in the Mission bookstore.
and, really, all I know about Sean is that he eats food out of tubes. I mean, ewww.
(Robin, I was pretty upset with X myself. Not that it actually happened. Because it didn't.)
but that nobody called her on it.
I would also like to point out that this is not entirely accurate.
I'm bugged by the cat-shaving. Because shaved cats can be some fugly animals.
I once lived next to a guy who raised Mexican Hairless dogs.
Poster pups for fugly, poor things.
Shaved maybe, but naturally hairless I've grown to like from the Sphinx cat in the Mission bookstore.
David, you just made a post about a cat.
I felt you should know.
Hairless cats are soft, but creepy.
Moldy tube rice is NOT FOOD.
(Yeah, that's all I got.)
I would also like to point out that this is not entirely accurate.
Trudy, I remember this the way Sean does. In fact, I remember (or have created a memory of) telling off both sides, because I was disgusted more by the fallout in the thread from people who weren't Jen and Allyson, than by either Jen's comment, or Allyson's.
Is the warning procedure ... and what it is meant to be used for ... part of Nutty's Cheesebutt thingie (that's weird to write) along with proposal and voting procedure?
I can't remember whether it was included or separate, but I typed up the voting and prhaps the warning procedure when we were working on the cheesbut document.
And it really need to be posted clearly, so if the original can't be found, I can poke around for it.