Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
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
Okay then. I personally feel that 200 new members in a week will very likely lead to a significant change in board culture.
The only effect I'm seeing, really, is the Minearverse thread grown a'bulgent. They mostly seem to be playing over there. I expect it'll calm down and some people will stay and explore the other threads. It's not like we've had a rash of trolls and flaming.
If the board is handling the volume, does that mean we'd be shutting down registrations for personal reasons?
That's my impression.
I really, really, really don't like the idea. If the board crashed, or if we were becoming troll central, it would be one thing. I don't see either of those things happening. Right now the post volume is a bit overwhelming, but that should die down soonish.
Anybody want to open Lightbulbs? I'll make up more of a proposal.
Lightbulbs is open.
Kristen, one thing I'll note that makes me a bit more confident to let things ride is just that historically the board has been very quick to respond to not just outright flaming, but folks who rub the wrong way. People are quick to respond in-thread, first politely, and then bluntly, and if that doesn't work it gets over here pretty quick.
The maintenance and protection of board culture has been krav-quick in its responsiveness.
Board culture evolves. See: Bronze. I'd prefer slow evolution. Adopt other people into our culture, before they develop their own culture that is at odds with ours.
I don't think I'm going to get anywhere with this, as I have an admittedly pessimistic view of the newbie flood.
The maintenance and protection of board culture has been krav-quick in its responsiveness.
Err, yeah. And you kind of bitched us out for it a couple weeks ago, IIRC.
I'd prefer slow evolution. Adopt other people into our culture, before they develop their own culture that is at odds with ours.
Or, what the pixie said.
Board culture evolves. See: Bronze. I'd prefer slow evolution. Adopt other people into our culture, before they develop their own culture that is at odds with ours.
I get why you're twitchy, but we own this board in a way that original Bronzers didn't. I do respect your point and your experience on this, but I haven't seen anything that's symptomatic of a change in culture yet.
I'm wondering though if it might be useful to turn off registrations that haven't been used for a year (to be re-opened upon request). I think it's freaksome to see 1300 users, but if we knew that 800 of them were people who had never logged in for a year, then we'd have a better sense of active community folks.
I'm wondering though if it might be useful to turn off registrations that haven't been used for a year (to be re-opened upon request). I think it's freaksome to see 1300 users, but if we knew that 800 of them were people who had never logged in for a year, then we'd have a better sense of active community folks.
It'd be easy to do a query to determine the number of active users. OTOH, cancelling someone's reg. after a year is a fairly common thing.