you sure this is a good idea?

i'm not too sure it is. grievances might be best handled in the confs where they begin as well as via email between the parties involved and the hosts. the hosts are really the important parts of the process.

oh. so none of you guys get into a fight in poetry. i'm not a good mediator and will end up crying in the corner. oh why did i say that...now you all will wanna see it happen!

But, as we have seen, when a grievance is with a host, it spreads across conferences...I just figured that if we had a specific place for them (yeah, I know, like we're going to limit ourselves to a topic...) then maybe the problem could be handled more appropriately because it would be a)in a centralized, neutral location and b)if it is handled in here, new people are less likely to get hit up side the head when they inadvertantly stumble across a bit of nastiness in a seemingly innocent topic... Just an idea and the topic can be killed just as easily as it was created...

no! haha. do you think i should move a couch into poetry?

dont take the one in philosophy!

besides, there's two in philosophy (even if one is frozen) and there's another perfectly good one in screwed... (The Food Fight! topic in food was intended for a fun way to get out the aggression, look at what happened in there...same thing for jihad in screwed...)

good point, PT... maybe in a nice mauve?

(btw: i never understood jihad so i never posted there). but yeah, i was thinking of ordering a couch in poetry too. so if anyone gets tired while they're in there reciting poems, you know, they could doodle on the couch.

EXACTLY!!! (ps--can you put in an espresso machine, as well?)

hmmm...gotta look at the budget. you know, with cutbacks and everything!

just wait till the end of the fiscal year then, there's always extra money that you've gotta spend or lose it out of next year's allotment...

so true, but it just so happens that i found a stash and now there's a couch in poetry. complete with crayons!

I'm heading there now! Wer, PT, will you join me?

Oh, no, Wolf sat upon it first...

That is what I thought.

who made the mess?

*looking at wer* i sat but did not mark!

I can't help the fact that Wolf slipped a crayon beneath me (and in an upright postion I might add) on my way down... and as to the stray hairs, I thought mine would get mixed in with Wolf's and no one would notice...

owie!

That line beats, " The dog ate my homework." , any day.

'The dog stained my homework." Good Lewinsky line?

Internal Server Error on trying to go to "What do you want to talk about today?"...wer...did YOU do that?

yeah...only works right if someone posts to the topic today... I really need to fix that...

But...wait a sec...how can you POST if you can't get there...?

one of the many reasons I need to fix it, huh?

*snicker* you GO, wer - you da man! :)

Ever doubted that?

Grievence: Mike, the now ghost of a host in Babes, killed Marcia's topic after genuine objections were raised... ****This is what I tried to post there before I realized it was frozen**** Mike... Those were genuine issues... what the heck are you doing??? whose gonna keep your babes topic alive since you're never around anymore if we can't play too??? ******* I don't wanna go to drool... but I wanna be able to talk about babes too... boy ones... *grump* Most importantly I'm miffed 'cause Mike said he'd freeze it unless genuine issues were raised objecting to the freeze... Well... there were objections... you never commented/addressed/validated them... you just froze us out... *grrr* (can't growl as well as wolfie but that's how I feel) couldn't we take a vote??

Hear Hear! Thanks for the comments, Stace. I tried to post there after it was frozen and went elsewhere to do so. I don't understand...!

Hail to GAL POWER!!!

I am here dear. Just put me in the mix and I think all my powers are intact. Please post away!!!

(Is there something I actually need to be doing other than posting? Please let me know if there is and I shall do it.)

Thanks, Marcia. You're a very sweet person.

I see that I have had my plate tectonics information removed from www.spring.net and a plea for Christine to return in bigger letters than I ever got has replaced me. Ok...fine...taking my toys elsewhere and you can jolly well wait till the Spring turns to dust before she ever sees it. It would not be so bad if Geo was in the options on the left table, but apparently the power that is does not think it worthy. How could he? He has never been into Geo except to create a topic and leave it there floundering. Btw, when someone with more wisdom, in this case, put the plate tectonics on www.spring.net, it attracted Mike's attention and we all discovered that he is not only a Geologist in real life, but is doing his thesis on Plate Tectonics. Have I made my point or shall I sharpen it some more?

We're going to rotate different content on to the main page. I'd like to get you co-authoring the main page. Have you gotten in to Front Page 2000 yet, Marci? I'd actually like to have an authoring team like they do with austen.com and firth.com.

I really did not have a reason to have it until this moment as I use Netscape Composer (lame, but does the job) for the Booster Club newsletter. I'll check it out. That space would be best used to showcase an otherwise unadvertised conference like SpringArk, Collecting, History, Geo or any of the other "new" conferences which might not appeal on first glance. Geo seeems to be very off-putting for many. I guess they think it is stuffy and dull and pedantic. Not the case at all. Check it out, PLEASE!!! (Sorry I was so out of joint yesterday when I posted...)

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