Don't mean to natter in here, but...
OtherKate, I was unreasonably excited when I got married and moved all the way up to the second letter in the alphabet.
Monty: Whaddya mean she ain't my wife? Mal: She ain't your wife... cause she's married to me.
'Trash'
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
Daisy Jane - Apr 06, 2004 6:48:18 pm PDT #9335 of 10005
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
billytea - Apr 06, 2004 7:18:51 pm PDT #9336 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I can go with OtherKate. I've never been fond of the first letter of my last name. Too many days of being last in line because of alphabetization or something. Stupid W.
t weeps for the letter W
OtherKate - Apr 06, 2004 7:34:16 pm PDT #9337 of 10005
This heart ain't gonna cut itself out
Great, now I'm picturing some Sesame Streetesque big foamy W looking all sad and droopy. I'm sorry, W!
Maria - Apr 06, 2004 7:41:57 pm PDT #9338 of 10005
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
And I'm imagining Vamp Puppet!Angel just decimating that poor W. Two V's anyone?
I do like the name change, OtherKate.
billytea - Apr 06, 2004 7:58:18 pm PDT #9339 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Great, now I'm picturing some Sesame Streetesque big foamy W looking all sad and droopy. I'm sorry, W!
Well, yeah. I mean, without it I could only eep for the letter W.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2004 8:04:55 pm PDT #9340 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's been a discussion of a list (static or otherwise) of all user names in BBaBB, starting here: Consuela "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Apr 5, 2004 6:18:20 pm PDT
I'm having trouble articulating exactly why it is, but it is.
I think you're helping me think it out.
It's just that, as a poster, my name is out there, visible to whoever. But that's a conscious and obvious decision I made at or before the first time I hit "Post message."
Lurkers have made no such choice. So the choice should be an explicit one, but then again has to be day forward which is all messy and stuff.
Can we make the decisions for lurkers that don't read here anymore? How fair is it?
(Not contentious questions -- discussion points)
bon bon - Apr 06, 2004 8:07:39 pm PDT #9341 of 10005
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
As usual, I'm against making things easier on non-participants to the cost of the participants. It's simply not worth it when, ta-da, one can just say, "hey, Ro, you get confused with Rio."
There's something ooky about "a list."
Topic!Cindy - Apr 07, 2004 1:58:54 am PDT #9342 of 10005
What is even happening?
OtherKate, I was unreasonably excited when I got married and moved all the way up to the second letter in the alphabet.
Me too, Heather.
Can we make the decisions for lurkers that don't read here anymore? How fair is it?
I would rather the name list was housed on site and only available to users who are logged on here, but like Gus's list and don't have a substantive objection.
ita, would it help your bother-level if we sent an email to all users notifying them there was going to be such a page?
amych - Apr 07, 2004 2:26:34 am PDT #9343 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I really don't like the list, although I'm having trouble articulating why. It's not a security thing -- after all, it's just a list of board names without any connection to anything. But I hatehatehatehatehate it. And it squicks. And it angers me deeply.
And it makes me want to take time away from here in a way that all the hurt feelings of last week didn't.
Last week, there was a lot of ugly, but it was ugly amongst Buffistas, and we made a lot of progress in understanding each other. This week, it feels like we're talking about remaking the whole place to suit an army of starfucker newbies who want to use our place to organize a campaign that won't work, and maybe get a VIP sighting in while they're here.
I'll probably edit this later.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 07, 2004 3:07:30 am PDT #9344 of 10005
What is even happening?
fwiw, I think being honest like that at the first is a great way toward eliminating (almost wrote "illiminating" wtf?) some of the bitter subtext around here.
Also? It helps people make up their minds. If you feel that way amych, I don't want the function.