If some aspect of board culture, in-joke or catchphrase or whatever, makes you annoyed, but not to the point where you want anything officially done about it, we think it's best to bring it up politely in the thread where it's occurring.

A big HELL YEAH to this. Not as a policy or whatever, but as a recommendation for us all to follow. There's really no point in letting little annoying things bother you until you're ready to go insane at the thought of them -- just bring them up as they come.

BTW, wrod, insent, and what Betsy said.

If some aspect of board culture, in-joke or catchphrase or whatever, makes you annoyed, but not to the point where you want anything officially done about it, we think it's best to bring it up politely in the thread where it's occurring.

I like this. Should I add it to the etiquette page?

Also, I've been thinking that the "Site etiquette" link on the left should go to the short-but-to-the-point version, with a link to the filky version. At present, it's the other way around. One - I think that our etiquette guidelines are important enough that they should be displayed in a clear and concise manner upon initial viewing. Two - Anytime something new is added (like I'm proposing above), I think it's unreasonable to expect someone to create a new section to the filk.

Comments?

I'm prejudiced, because I wrote the filk, but I vote no. The filk is intentionally quirky, and if people can't deal with our quirks, best they find out now.

Also, we carefully wrote the filk so that the text explaining each stanza can be edited and expanded without anybody's having to worry about meter or rhyme.

With frequent use, there's not time to read all that into every use of what Victor said. Even emphasizing "What. Victor. Said." barely comes across stronger than just plain wrod.

I never agree with anything, so of course ways of saying "I agree" aren't me-appropriate content. That's OK. They're short. Other hand, I don't think this is the kind of stuff that gets old on its own calendar. People will always be saying "I agree," unless Angus can change the culture. (I see a lot of bold in COMM lately -- he has influence.)

This is a meta discussion. It can be in Bureaucracy, though it could be elsewhere.

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Also, we carefully wrote the filk so that the text explaining each stanza can be edited and expanded without anybody's having to worry about meter or rhyme.

Good point, Betsy.

I've been thinking that the "Site etiquette" link on the left should go to the short-but-to-the-point version, with a link to the filky version.

I can't read the filk. I have no idea what the tune of Officer Krupke is, and I can't STAND trying to get the etiquette guidelines out of what looks like a big page of dialogue.

That's just me. As a filk, it's great. If I were a newbie, I'd go away.

Perhaps that's the point.

But the link to the plain version is right there! It's not like you have to read the filk to find it, or know some secret code. It's very readily available.

Although I'd be happy to see it described as for the "filk-challenged" rather than the "attention-span challenged."

I agree wholeheartedly with Jon's original suggestion -- the filk is cute, but there's no reason to make it in any way difficult, confusing, or off-putting for people to learn the rules, which should be the basic groundline of community participation. Jesse's point that the link to the plain version is "right there" works if you reverse the links as well -- that way, people who enjoy filk can read the filk version, and people who just want to know the rules can just read the rules.

I like the filk.

But I'm not actually here.