Once this space is established as the World News and Events area, and I am hoping it will be.............would the administrators not listen if enough posters petitioned for a name change?
Once this space is established as the World News and Events area, and I am hoping it will be.............would the administrators not listen if enough posters petitioned for a name change?
Move It On Over
I sure hope so. The name Talk Club stunk from the beginning.
On the Peripheral
I'm lobbying for it, although I think it's rather low on the list of priorities.
I know j2k4 was here the last time we went through the "well, what do we call this" bit, which is where my drawing room reference comes from.Do we have a name we want more than "World News and Events?" Do we want it to stay the same name?
I, personally, still like the drawing room as a contrast to the lounge, but World News grew on me eventually.
things are quiet until hitler decides he'd like to invade russia
so, he does
the russians are like "OMG WTF D00DZ, STOP TKING"
and the germans are still like "omg ph34r n00bz"
the russians fall back, all the way to moscow
and then they all begin h4xing, which brings on the russian winter
the germans are like "wtf, h4x"
-- WW2 for the l33t
effendi
Personally, subsequent to it being merged with Talk Club, I don't think that it can accurately be called World News and Events.
J2 is correct in that the two places had separate, distinct flavours but since they are now one it isn't logical to call the place WN&E, what of the recent topics on mediums and time travel. They hardly fit into that catagory.
To designate the merging of the two places I think it fitting that it be renamed to something disimilar to the two pre-existing places. MagicNakor's suggestion of The Drawing Room gets my vote.
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--Good for them if they survive.
Simple Bystander
BT Rep: +7
If we had to chuck one, I'd rather we'd have chucked TTC instead of WN&E
But we can't do anything about it now, except maybe petition for the name change and possibly a flush-out to clean the subforum of the TC crap
en(un)lightened
First of all, I have to say that I am much more pissed-off/upset about the "lost month-corrupt back-up" circumstance than I have any right to be; that this has now happened twice I find unforgiveable, but I suppose that's just me, and I have no knowledge of the difficulties in maintaining the board, so I'll let that lie.Originally Posted by MagicNakor
I'm lobbying for it, although I think it's rather low on the list of priorities.
I know j2k4 was here the last time we went through the "well, what do we call this" bit, which is where my drawing room reference comes from.
I, personally, still like the drawing room as a contrast to the lounge, but World News grew on me eventually.
Many others were also invested heavily here wherein some of our best and most worthwhile thoughts were recorded.
As a group I think we've managed some occasionally astounding things, and it pains me to see our "work-product" has disappeared so utterly, but such are the vagaries of cyberspace.
Much as I would like to keep the title WN&E, I would partake in another hash to re-christen it if necessary, but would prefer at this point to give the nod to MN's idea of calling it the Drawing Room, which connotes the rather droll shading that I believe should enculturate all who post here.
Manners mean alot to both of us, and I would be honored to see him honored thus.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
there is no god
I have no care what it's called as long as there is a place where we can have a serious non filesharing/computer discussion without spam attacks....in reality this room seems to fit that bill to me.
I prefered the old format but i am getting used to this and it serves its purpose well.
It's free to use and a lot of hard work went into it.
it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.
Move It On Over
You are (as usual J2) correct.
WN&E had a certain mystique about it. You couldn’t just go in there and post some nonsense and expect to get away with it like you could post in other sections. For a long time I would only read because I was to intimidated to post in there.
The debates that took place in there were legendary and its sad that they are gone because a silly mistake. Some of those threads were great reading and very thought provoking, which is what finally inspired me to start to post. I can remember going round and round with RF for days at a time over issues and Busyman’s thread where I took on the entire section by myself, and now its gone and that sucks. But we can’t do anything about it but move on and start over.
I don’t know what we should call this place. You can’t just stick the title of WN&E on it and call it a wrap. That title meant something at least to me as discussed in the previous paragraph. I do kind of like the name MN has been batting around.
I'm everything you want
Likewise as hank & J2 said;
You noticed that most of the people that crawled around the lounge kept away from WW&E, I think for that reason of being called on what you said.
I feel a creeping suspison that everything accomplished in the last month is wasted because there is no threads to back up on; and it's sad that such a thing comes right before a crucial election.
Do you know everything? do you know 3% of everything? Could it be that what you don't believe in is in the other 97%?
After the grief at the loss passes -
It really is the people that count above all else. As long as we still have each of you, and the quality of your minds, no one loses.
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