So, MNHQ, bedecked in LKBennett (and Boden for the plebs) are all out stuffing pizza and Bolly, half of the posters and hangers-on are there too: what mischief shall we get up to while they're away?

[WilfSell]

Because I bet they've just left BigTech in charge. Or he/she'll be checking in every once in a while, a bit pished and lairy.

So we can DO. WHAT. WE. LIKE. while the Leaders party.

Don't know if Misdee was there, but I do know that there was not an invitation policy of inviting all the MNers behind the published 'top ten MN moments'.

Aitch was invited but couldn't come, I think.

So you had: MNers who do paid work for MN, the haiku winners and their plus-ones (many of whom were also MNers).

Maybe not a perfect way of organising it, but MNHQ coming up with a list of posters whom they considered to be jolly important wouldn't have been great either, would it?

Maybe they should have operated some sort of saecret blackball system...

So, those who do work for free, were not included in the invitation policy. Get it.

OH! Oh I get it now , no I thought you were mucking about and saying they would out you with your namechange of "MamaGisNFI"!

Now I will have to go and look at embarassing threads and see if I can identify you. Is it the pubic waxing one?

hahano thaknfully n ot me!

"So you had: MNers who do paid work for MN, the haiku winners and their plus-ones (many of whom were also MNers).

Maybe not a perfect way of organising it, but MNHQ coming up with a list of posters whom they considered to be jolly important wouldn't have been great either, would it?"

Errr....so what category did Cod fall into?
Methinks it was that last one you defined PolicyWonk - "MNHQ coming up with a list of posters whom they considered to be jolly important"

Ach this is all very dog-in-the-manger. By 'work for free', do you mean 'posting'? ie what we all do, by definition? You're asking MNHQ to come up with a list of posters whom they consider to be more valuable than anyone else. How would that have been better than an open competition judged by an independent outsider?

"Maybe they should have operated some sort of saecret blackball system..."

Maybe they did

No PW, I did not mean posting. We all do that. I am not paid to post, by I wish!

Cod has done paid work for MN afaik

But they did, didn't they PW.

Or was Cod just 'special'?

arf

yes, Cod is MN's inbuilt spellchecker

Well if you don't mean 'posting', what do you mean? How would you define it without raising howls of outrage? I admire hunker and tiktok a great deal, but personally I would add Franny to that list. that's the point - we would all have different lists of posters who have carved out niches and given valuable advice. The rows such a policy generated would have been never-ending.

Again - how would any of this have been better than an independently judged competition open to all members?

I explained what I meant further down.

I think we should have had to enter a comp

like write a haiku or summat

I wish they had invited Hully, though

I can only imagine the headlines

I've done paid work for mn. Not keen on being a dog in a manger though. Unless I can be one with MamaG.

MamaG i think I spotted your thread - was it the blue waffle one?

but who is hully?

haha no it wasn't, it was another one

not rlated to waffles at all

Oh stop it with the blue waffle, I am trying not to google it. Is it akin to dragon butter?

No Policy by work for free we mean people that MNHQ have employed on a voluntary basis to work for them. Not post on threads, work.

Yes boco, I don't understand why you weren't invited. And the uninviting of sophable was grim, obviously.

no e it's fine, just google it and put yourself out of your misery

Oh, I don't know about that LeDodgy - possibly before my time. Do you mean mods?

Can I come in the manger too? I didn't expect to be invited but am indignant on the behalf of those who should have. I also want to share a manger with Boco and mamaG.