I agree with whoever suggested that it be in the FAQ regarding TV Tropes.
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Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
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Vortex - Mar 22, 2010 2:38:02 pm PDT #4477 of 6786
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
DavidS - Mar 22, 2010 2:40:37 pm PDT #4478 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2010 2:41:12 pm PDT #4479 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Steph L. - Mar 22, 2010 2:42:28 pm PDT #4480 of 6786
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 22, 2010 2:43:48 pm PDT #4481 of 6786
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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.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2010 2:44:18 pm PDT #4482 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's a lot of board history that isn't in the FAQ.
Right, because they're not frequently asked questions.
Steph L. - Mar 22, 2010 2:45:09 pm PDT #4483 of 6786
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Right, because they're not frequently asked questions.
How much stuff in the FAQ is stuff that actually frequently gets asked? Seriously.
aurelia - Mar 22, 2010 2:46:13 pm PDT #4484 of 6786
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I wouldn't call Gus a troll, but that is beside the point.
Does it matter to anyone that the FAQ is open to search engines? If someone googled TV Tropes or Fast Eddie and ended up here would that make people more or less comfortable than the links from the articles about TV Tropes?
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§ ita § - Mar 22, 2010 2:48:06 pm PDT #4485 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If someone googled TV Tropes or Fast Eddie and ended up here
I doubt anyone googling TV Tropes would ever come up with us as a high-ranking hit. Fast Eddie and TV Tropes? Again, not likely.
Someone googles buffistas in conjunction with that, then they were looking for us, and I don't mind them finding out what went down here.
megan walker - Mar 22, 2010 2:50:13 pm PDT #4486 of 6786
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I have no doubt then when I submit either the suggestions for deletions, new entries, or the entire revised FAQ itself, we will probably conclude that we need to vote on it. So it's not like we need to decide this right now.