Posted by alexandra_k on April 25, 2005, at 0:50:07
In reply to Re: my vote » alexandra_k, posted by alesta on April 24, 2005, at 23:55:28
> ok, so are you saying that these private rooms will be in *addition* to the main social board?
Yup. That is indeed my understanding. The rest of the boards would continue as normal.
>could you go in a little more detail please? your post leaves me with a lot of questions..
Hmm. I'm not too sure what your questions are. I guess nobody really knows how they are going to work exactly except Dr Bob and maybe he hasn't even worked out all the details yet. I think the idea may be first come first served or something like that. And the number of posters to the board will be restricted to a certain number (not sure how many). If people don't post for a couple of weeks or whatever then they lose their place and someone else can join up. I'm not too sure but I think the idea is to have as many of them as there are people who want them so if one is full then another may be set up. I think the idea is that some people would feel more comfortable in a smaller group.
IMO I don't think it would change the current boards much. But some people have been worried that it would change things because some of the people off social might prefer their smaller board. I don't know. I just know that in my case I would probably like to be a member of a smaller board - but I'd also keep posting to social as usual because I wouldn't want to miss out on my friends there and also all the new people who come along and all the old people who I don't know very well yet.With respect to civility...
There was some concern about people saying that small boards were exclusive and stuff like that. The concern was that posters might not feel comfortable joining up to the small boards (if they ever get underway) because posters might think that other posters think they are being exclusionary in joining.That was what that was about.
You can say you don't like them etc.
But I think you aren't really supposed to call them 'names'.
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