'War Stories'
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: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
I really don't get the impulse to "not draw attention to it." I prefer transparency and being forthright about it.
It's not the *situation* that I don't want to draw attention to (i.e., "a poster acted in this way. This is what happened. This is how we dealt with it.").
What I don't want to draw attention to is the *person* who caused the situation. He's gotten more than enough of our attention and bandwidth; I don't think he deserves to be enshrined in our FAQ. That's permanent attention.
I don't think he deserves to be enshrined in our FAQ. That's permanent attention.
See, that's the part that doesn't make sense to me.
The FAQ is not the Hall of Fame. As Clint noted in Unforgiven, "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
The FAQ addresses board history. Gus was part of our history. Ergo, Gus goes in the FAQ.
If someone asks about Gus, refer to a section on trolls. The inference should be obvious. If someone wants more information, they can ask. Are all our trolls going to be immortalized in the FAQ?
I agree with whoever suggested that it be in the FAQ regarding TV Tropes.
Gus was not a troll.
He was a member of the community who offed his board persona.
The very fact that we're still talking about it years later indicates it's an important part of our history.
And again, I don't get the "immortalized" language.
We're not giving him a posthumous Medal of Honor.
Gus isn't a story about trolls, and I'd be frustrated if that was the answer I was pointed to when people are patently talking about something else. Gus is a story about pseudicide and tvtropes, in whichever order you find most interesting.
I don't think he deserves to be enshrined in our FAQ. That's permanent attention.
See, that's the part that doesn't make sense to me.
Eh. You don't have to get it. I'm not trying to recruit people to my way of thinking; I was expressing my opinion on the idea of putting the Gus situation in the FAQ, much in the same way that many other people were expressing their opinions, some of which didn't make sense to ME.
The FAQ addresses board history. Gus was part of our history. Ergo, Gus goes in the FAQ.
There's a lot of board history that isn't in the FAQ.
We could do entries on Zoe and Schmoker/Anathema, too! :)
Seriously, the tvtropes thing should probably be in the FAQ, with a link to discussion of the pseudicide.
There's a lot of board history that isn't in the FAQ.
Right, because they're not frequently asked questions.
Right, because they're not frequently asked questions.
How much stuff in the FAQ is stuff that actually frequently gets asked? Seriously.