we will probably conclude that we need to vote on it
Really?
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
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
aurelia - Mar 22, 2010 2:56:13 pm PDT #4489 of 6786
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Liese S. - Mar 22, 2010 4:05:59 pm PDT #4490 of 6786
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It could go in an affiliation area. "Is b.org affiliated with tvtropes.com?" "No. Tvtropes was started by a poster named Gus, brief history, Fast Eddie whose name you may have seen in the press was never a registered user name at b.org" "Is b.org affiliated with timminear.net?" "No, timminear.net is run by a poster...blah blah...Tim Minear previously posted at the b.org but this is not in any way his site." "Is b.org affiliated with Mutant Enemy?" "No, this is in no way an official site, all material copyrighted by ME belongs to ME."
Cass - Mar 22, 2010 4:39:46 pm PDT #4491 of 6786
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
That "Fast Eddie," whoever he is, has fuckall to do with this community or this site.
Yes. We've never had a poster named Fast Eddie. Might be the same meatsuit as Gus, but Gus "died" and, frankly, there was overlap from b.org to tvtropes but neither created the other.
And, really, just links. Let people go read on their own. I am so, so tired of people asking "What happened?" I get that they want to know and I am really okay with them knowing. I just wish there was a place I could send them and not rehash it all every time. It stresses me out.
It was a shitty situation but it happened. Links for people to read that make sense to me.
Stephanie - Mar 22, 2010 5:35:12 pm PDT #4492 of 6786
Trust my rage
I want this:
"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.
I think it would be nice for new people or curious people to have a link that pointed them to the beginning of it all, or a brief explanation somewhere, mostly because it keeps coming up.
meara - Mar 22, 2010 6:41:51 pm PDT #4493 of 6786
I like the "is/how is b.org affiliated with tvtropes" suggestions. More down that route.
WindSparrow - Mar 22, 2010 6:55:04 pm PDT #4494 of 6786
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I like the "is/how is b.org affiliated with tvtropes" suggestions. More down that route.
Me too. And I like the specific wording of "Fast Eddie... was never a registered user name".
Pix - Mar 22, 2010 7:40:15 pm PDT #4495 of 6786
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I like the "is/how is b.org affiliated with tvtropes" suggestions. More down that route.
Me too. And I like the specific wording of "Fast Eddie... was never a registered user name".
Yep, this please.
Vortex - Mar 22, 2010 7:44:39 pm PDT #4496 of 6786
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
In case it's needed, here's a link to the transcript of the interview, and a quote of the specific mention.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Tell me, what’s the origin of the site?
ZACHARY PINCUS-ROTH: It came out of this discussion website for Buffy the Vampire Slayer called Buffistas. One of the guys on that site – his name is Fast Eddie – decided, well, why don't we create a site that talks about all these repeated patterns we see on TV, and it took off. Now there are over 20,000 tropes.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2010 7:50:14 pm PDT #4497 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
At which point we clarify that we never had a user called Fast Eddie, but had a user Gus who started TV Tropes, and was reported to have died from complications of a monkey bite (and whose death was later also reported by the person calling themselves Fast Eddie: [link]
Fast Eddie says that Gus, who passed away from MS in 2006
Cass - Mar 22, 2010 8:58:40 pm PDT #4498 of 6786
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Yes. Plain facts. Leave the interpretations to each person. (Which, honestly, is more damning. But also up to the individual.)