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
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.
ita any chance you can make an executive decision and delete the posts in minearverse where people are talking about selling downloads for profit? Cause that could get the board shutdown; I think the argument for doing so is as strong as that for deleting Christian Dollar Store spam. IF we want as a board to take the risk and bravely defy giant evil networks, cool. But I don't wnat some random newbie (or for that matter a long term celeb poster) to make that decision for us.
I know the mighty man with the scythe semi-endorsed it. But don't know how much pull he has with the entertainment division of W&H lawyers, if consequences come down.
tina f. (and obviously I don't think you are out of line).
Commercial solicitations are banned and should be deleted.
It was not someone trying to sell things.
He or she was trying (poorly worded) to get good copies of the aired episodes for his or her own personal viewing and offering to pay for the materials used.
See: When Come Back, Bring Tape
