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'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Jon B. - Mar 01, 2003 9:24:01 pm PST #6102 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Steph L. - Mar 01, 2003 10:12:16 pm PST #6103 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
Jesse - Mar 02, 2003 8:30:27 am PST #6104 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Jesse - Mar 02, 2003 8:31:38 am PST #6105 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Although I'd be happy to see it described as for the "filk-challenged" rather than the "attention-span challenged."
Michele T. - Mar 02, 2003 12:45:45 pm PST #6106 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
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.
David J. Schwartz - Mar 02, 2003 1:41:06 pm PST #6107 of 10001
New, fully poseable Author!Knut.
I like the filk.
But I'm not actually here.
Jessica - Mar 02, 2003 1:54:52 pm PST #6108 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
(Natter in Press needs Stomping.)
P.M. Marc - Mar 02, 2003 1:55:45 pm PST #6109 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I've stomped the press natter. And will stomp my natter warning in five.
John H - Mar 02, 2003 1:57:28 pm PST #6110 of 10001
I like the filk too, (and I think it's terribly sad that Steph's never heard "Officer Krupke", or presumably, seen "West Side Story") but I would support reversing the two pages. Straight one with a link to filk rather than filk with a link to straight.
Jessica - Mar 02, 2003 1:57:45 pm PST #6111 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Danke.
I would also like to voice my continuing frustration with announcements being posted in Press AND cross-posted in other threads. Press was created to prevent cross-posting of this very type. It is very annoying to have to read the same message three times.