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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 13, 2004 3:03:34 pm PDT #9948 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
bon bon - Apr 13, 2004 3:03:52 pm PDT #9949 of 10005
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm all for maintaining precedent, but this isn't really an official change, since there was never an official "limiting."
So: no change in status quo, no need to make it official, IMO.
Allyson - Apr 13, 2004 3:04:10 pm PDT #9950 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
Oh, natter. It just burst from my soul.
Hil R. - Apr 13, 2004 3:04:53 pm PDT #9951 of 10005
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think it is totally appropriate to change the title and slug to reflect the more generalized nature of the thread.
I agree. I think most of us agree. I just think we should vote on it, because I don't like the precedent it would set if we didn't.
P.M. Marc - Apr 13, 2004 3:17:44 pm PDT #9952 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I just think we should vote on it, because I don't like the precedent it would set if we didn't.
Isn't it already there? Did we vote on any of the Wonderfalls related slug changes to Tim's thread?
Topic!Cindy - Apr 13, 2004 3:19:30 pm PDT #9953 of 10005
What is even happening?
Indeed I have. I am for us having a comics thread. I just think we should go through the process, and not just slip it by.
Oh. I thought you meant sneaking with the whole idea, not voting vs. bullshitting. I don't care if we vote or not. I'm not proposing it officially, but I'll gladly second whomever does. Or I'll gladly chip in with the bullshitting. Either way, I am good.
What I (personally) am not good with, is us having a discussion so long and dragged out, that it would have been quicker to vote.
Jesse - Apr 13, 2004 3:23:13 pm PDT #9954 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The Minearverse thing was just clarification -- the thread was always to discuss all of Tim's work. Wonderfalls is Tim's work. To me, the comparison would be wanting to discuss the Joss X-Files comics in the Jossverse thread.
DXMachina - Apr 13, 2004 3:24:23 pm PDT #9955 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I would just as soon leave it as is rather than vote on whether or not to change the slug. People can already discuss non-Jossian comics in there. We do occasionally talk about RPGs and other non-comic stuff (the TotV books).
§ ita § - Apr 13, 2004 6:07:59 pm PDT #9956 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I would just as soon leave it as is rather than vote on whether or not to change the slug
Yup. The ship has so sailed on it being a Fray thread.
Jeff Mejia - Apr 14, 2004 4:08:22 am PDT #9957 of 10005
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
Just catching up with the discussion (take a night off from the internet...)
I'm all for expanding the thread purpose and changing the slug. I've been going back and forth over whether this should be something we vote on, but as I think through the arguments, I realize it won't matter what we do. With Joss writing Astonishing X-Men, volume to the thread is bound to increase no matter what, and discussion of his run will inevitably drag in discussion of other comics. Couple that with a need to find a home for the Bat-discussion, and it is obvious (to me) that nothing we do can probably change that.
I do look forward to quality comics discussion. The "discussion" one sees on comics boards is laughably bad.