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.

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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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.

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.

I mean, the question might be "What does TV Tropes have to do with the Buffistas? I thought Fast Eddie started tvtropes.org from b.org?"

This is really what I want to publicly clarify. That "Fast Eddie," whoever he is, has fuckall to do with this community or this site.

I want "Fast Eddie is not now and has never been a member of Buffistas.org and here's a link to the conversation where tvtropes was launched" to be easily available information just in case the next reporter he talks to thinks to do a little fact-checking.