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The other thing is that a lot of threads have been archived, most recently in December, so you can't really even write that table spanning query and have it get a correct count.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.

Well, I do remember discussing whether famous buffistas should be marked as such -- you know, special font or colors or something -- and then deciding that was a bad idea, due to the I-who-am-no-better-than-you concept, with which I agree. I suppose asking people to go pseudy is sort of the inversion of the famous buffista marking argument, so it's probably not the best idea.

Although the funniest thing was when Joss showed up in Comics and hardly anybody noticed all day. It was like, Yep, that too is part of being a buffista -- occasionally being not-noticed.

Did I just totally overstep my bounds in Minearverse? It was making me crazy to see it get all guilty and weird. But I feel like maybe that wasn't my place.

Validate me or tell me I'm out of line. I need some feedback.