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Citizens and tourists?

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Tom Coates

06:45 / 12.08.02

When the board moves to its next level, regular posters that have been ratified and welcomed by the rest of the board will be the people that control the spirit of the board - and newcomers will have to earn those rights with time... The old terminology for this was 'member' and 'junior member', but I'm uncomfortable with that. What I'm thinking about now is something like 'citizen' and .... well, that's the problem. I haven't got a word for it. 'visitors', 'tourists', 'xenia', 'associates', 'immigrants', 'asylum seekers'?

Shortfatdyke

07:54 / 12.08.02

'Probationer'? Sounds rather institutional, but I have a thing for that kind of thing.

Lilith Myth

08:16 / 12.08.02

asylum seekers?

bio k9

09:22 / 12.08.02

Tops and Bottoms.

Sax

09:55 / 12.08.02

Alphas and Betas.

Us and Them.

Doms and Subs.

U and Non-U.

Citizens and Plebs.

Anything suitably divisive and elitist, of course. So long as I'm on the right side of the fence.

Sebastian

11:19 / 12.08.02

Why not Regular Posters, and Visitors or simply Members?

apprentice

citizen and subject

Loomis

12:51 / 12.08.02

Has-beens and Wannabes.

Minors and adults

I see that yr going for a consistent logic, but why not just use Citizen and Junior Member? Junior Member isn't very insulting, not the way 'tourist' or some other suggestions are, and doesn't give the person a feeling that they are just stopping by - I think "visitor" and names like that make it sound like the person really shouldn't be posting much and has a limited welcome. Junior Member encourages people to eventually become a full member/citizen.

gravitybitch

13:56 / 12.08.02

Immigrants? Petitioners? (based on the assumption that they really want to become fullfledged members...)

Caterpillars? Pods? Plebes? Proto-lithers? Acolytes? Interns? Trainees? Fresh meat? Debutantes?

Give me a couple of hours, and I can come up with something really silly...

MJ-12

14:06 / 12.08.02

Huddled masses yearning to breath free?

rizla mission

14:44 / 12.08.02

Established Members and New Members?

not too catchy I suppose, but about as un-elitest as yer gonna get with such a system..

Lurid Archive

15:51 / 12.08.02

I say we go with Loomis suggestion on the grounds that it is the funniest. It also serves to acknoweldge and dismiss the elitist trap. What am I saying? It's just funny.

gridley

16:23 / 12.08.02

Lurid has a point...

6opow

17:05 / 12.08.02

How about Chickens and Eggs?

But in order not to smugly resolve the age old dispute of which came first, can we have it so that the label will change at random; that is, can we make it so that sometimes you'll be logged in as a chicken and then maybe the next time you log in--POOF--you're an egg? We can click to see how often a person has posted, so what do we need these labels for anyway?

Tryphena Absent

17:48 / 12.08.02

I hate to be all girly but...

butterflies and caterpillars

you can even have an inbetween stage where you stick someone in a cocoon! Hey moderators could be butterflies and new members could be caterpillars and people who've been around a while but aren't moderators can be in their cocoon's!!!

Jack Fear

17:57 / 12.08.02

Resident.

They're here, but they're not yet Citizens (with all the attenmdant rights and privileges).

Or you could use the Robert Heinlein/STARSHIP TROOPERS paradigm and have Citizens and Civilians...

Tom Coates

18:23 / 12.08.02

I quite like that one...

Wrecks City-Zen

18:41 / 12.08.02

Cityzens!

I love it!

Um...

I hope Im ratified...

Jack The Bodiless

18:50 / 12.08.02

Master and servant.

Because I demand it.

Tezcatlipoca

20:13 / 12.08.02

I say we go with Loomis suggestion on the grounds that it is the funniest. It also serves to acknoweldge and dismiss the elitist trap. What am I saying? It's just funny.

I agree, largely because there will need to be a certain cooling of temperature in the infernal regions before I recognise Jack the Bodiless as 'master'

cusm

20:30 / 12.08.02

Or you could use the Robert Heinlein/STARSHIP TROOPERS paradigm and have Citizens and Civilians...

Remember, service guarantees citizenship.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:43 / 12.08.02

Imps and Devils?
Tadpoles and Frogs?
Happy campers and sitting tenants?
I won't take my coat off and That's my toothbrush, actually?

Whatever. So long as everyone still acknowledges me as their Spider Goddess, I'm cool.

pointless and uncalled for

21:10 / 12.08.02

Tom - High Illuminati.
Moderators - High Holy Chosen Elite
Regulars - Respected Denizens
New Folk - Humble Peons
Trolls - The Ejectea

6opow

21:34 / 12.08.02

Tom - High Illuminati.
Moderators - High Holy Chosen Elite
Regulars - Respected Denizens
New Folk - Humble Peons
Trolls - The Ejectea

I think this sounds like sum kinda' pyramid scheme!

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:50 / 12.08.02

Episodes and stasima?

the Fool

21:58 / 12.08.02

Migrants and Refugees

No one is native to barbelith... except maybe Gek...

Spatula Clarke

22:22 / 12.08.02

Citizens and Applicants?

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:35 / 12.08.02

Citizens and Metics.

Or...what was the name for the disenfranchised younger sons in early 4th Century Sparta?

Seth

23:45 / 12.08.02

Vedeks and Ranjins.

SMS

00:30 / 13.08.02

The caterpillar-butterfly suggestion captures the board's original focus on the Invisibles comic book.

I like the citizens-resident of all suggestions so far. We will have refugees, when another board shuts down, such as WEF, but that's hardly the only way we find new members. Tourist sounds too temporary. Could we give people choices? (Check One)
___Tourist
___Refugee
___Resident

Haves and Have Nots.

The Tried & True and The Unwashed Masses

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