ZOMG you’re that Donald?
I thought it was referencing a sea shanty or some other form of lewd poetry.
(It works everywhere in discourse) 
FWIW I was trying to start a discussion to manually promote more women to the lounge with the poll. You get ‘one and done’ flagging rights and this was during the whole gamergate debacle.
Oops! I think I just broke the first rule of lounge-club. 
You just stick to your techno-supremacist Loomio and leave us stone-age types sat in the dirt smacking rocks together, then.
Flaming Loomio thing still isn’t playing nice with my Box-O’Crap ™ computer and I’ll be buggered if I’m gonna jump though any more hoops for it. Just not worth the aggro. Harumph.
No, but there is a “brass Donald” that can be mounted, if that is one’s fancy.
Whoo! Sounds a bit… chilly.
That reminds me a a certain Palahniuk story I was just encouraged to read. Yikes!
Omg. I totally forgot I hated not threading, and was skeptical about the new BBS interface. Now it just seems natural and threading seems barbaric. Well done, then @codinghorror. Well done. 
Sign up for what? What am I missing?
Raita Aeon suggested we use Loomio and Raita set up a book group:
https://www.loomio.org/g/gk0cQuai/the-amazing-boingboing-book-club
It’s a platform for making group decisions. S’no bad, perhaps we can leverage the same functionality from discourse (if a little more messily). Only the future will tell. Come, join us.
no. noooo! NOOOOOOO! WE’RE CLOSED! NO MORE NEWBIES!!! AAAAUGH WERE DOOMOMED
I didn’t mean to force people into using that system. I was just suggesting it (or rather, took someone else’s suggestion and went with it), because I think Loomio works well for voting.
I’m sorry. 
Humor (especially between different cultures and languages) does not translate well on the intertoobs.
I promise you, they were joking!
Whew. I’m really bad at interpreting sarcasm in general. But really, I’d like to think we’re doing this democratically, and if enough people are up for something, then it’s a go.
I really just made the Loomio community as a test, but it worked out so well that I thought that we might as well use it. I’m good at and like administering stuff, but sometimes I make it sound like I’m trying to be “in command”, for which I apologize. I’m bad at communicating things like this in an appropriate way.
You’re doing great, as far as I can see. 
MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 
As a card-carrying Lounge member, I am willing to vouch for the opinions of these two.
My mistake, upon actually checking, I see aeon made the suggestion and you did the heavy lifting.
Thanks, by the way 
There are cards!?
I want squid ink on sun-bleached bone.
So, starting to get close to actually voting!
If people still want to join the Loomio community or suggest books (either there, or here so someone else can add them in Loomio), please try doing so in the next… 24 hours? Is that fair? Not that we’ll “close” the community for good - in my opinion, I think anyone can join for the next votings.
Then, when we vote, let’s give a vote to every book there. If you’re not sure, you can just vote “abstain”. Looking at the lists for the fiction and non-fiction books separately might make the list seem a little less intimidating.
During this first round of voting, don’t think that you’re making some final, now or never decision, bur rather; “Would I want to read this right now, during the next 3 months, and then discuss it with the lovely BB members?”. We’ll be voting for the same (and maybe some new?) books later, anyway.
Does that sound okay to everyone?
I’ve made notes in a couple of my suggestions that they should be ignored for the first few rounds. I’ll probably end up deleting Finnegan’s Wake entirely, impenetrable tome that it is. 
That’s a good point. We want a book that engages us and provokes spirited discussion right from the get-go. This first one needs to be kind of “easy” to get into, so that people don’t get discouraged right away.
