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Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.
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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
Allyson - Apr 09, 2004 9:56:10 am PDT #9797 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
§ ita § - Apr 09, 2004 9:56:25 am PDT #9798 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Barring a technical problem, I don't want to close anything down.
I want to post in the Minearverse, and don't want to be punished for it. I want new people to be able to sign up.
It's weird, and it's scary, and in three months it'll probably not even be a big deal.
Seven million people showed up. It's gone pretty smoothly.
Wolfram - Apr 09, 2004 9:58:18 am PDT #9799 of 10005
Visilurking
Well if it ain't broke....
Michele T. - Apr 09, 2004 9:59:07 am PDT #9800 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
What ita said. The stats to me suggest that the wave of new people has already broken, so it'd be a horse-barndoor situation.
Plus, we had this same discussion at the death of Firefly, and the world didn't end then, either.
Consuela - Apr 09, 2004 10:10:37 am PDT #9801 of 10005
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I also think it's unfair to close "inactive" registrations. Just because someone's not posting doesn't mean they're not using the board. They're lurking, but they're reading. Unless we're saying we want to inactivate registrations that no longer read OR post. Is there a way to tell that?
§ ita § - Apr 09, 2004 10:12:07 am PDT #9802 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If they read, their "last read" post numbers will be updated, but I really don't want to write that table-spanning query.
DXMachina - Apr 09, 2004 10:14:06 am PDT #9803 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The other thing is that a lot of threads have been archived, most recently in December, so you can't really even write that table spanning query and have it get a correct count.
Nutty - Apr 09, 2004 10:15:31 am PDT #9804 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Concur with Michele that thus far, the Wonderfalls impact has been similar to that of Firefly, except inasmuch as I am staying out of the thread that is attracting most of the new users, so I am only meeting the new users who are smart and interested enough to visit other threads (and, one presumes, read them). This being on purpose, for the sake of my blood pressure.
I know! We should require Tim to change his name. If he went by Wonder Monkey and posted the way he does, nobody would happen along and desperately need to talk personally to him right now at length!!
Only sorta kidding. It would actually probably change the dynamic a lot.
Jon B. - Apr 09, 2004 10:29:27 am PDT #9805 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
nobody would happen along and desperately need to talk personally to him right now at length!!
I haven't seen many posts of this nature (though a few emails to the admins have been amusing). Most of the newbies just want to vent their frustration at the cancellation.
brenda m - Apr 09, 2004 10:30:15 am PDT #9806 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
Didn't we have this discussion a few months after we moved in here when something of Joss's got liked all around the 'verse?
(That's not meant as "why the hell are we discussing this again." Just that it might be useful to go back and look at our conclusions at that time.)