Xander ,'Get It Done'
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
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.
Well if it ain't broke....
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.
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?
If they read, their "last read" post numbers will be updated, but I really don't want to write that table-spanning query.
The other thing is that a lot of threads have been archived, most recently in December, so you can't really even write that table spanning query and have it get a correct count.
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.
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.
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.)
brenda, I think that discussion starts here.
ETA: Not much in the way of conclusions as far as I can tell, though -- we kind of got to a "oh well, we'll ride it out" place and then switched to LotR thread talk. But it is sort of funny to see us all excited about poster 400 registering.