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
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.
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.
I like the "is/how is b.org affiliated with tvtropes" suggestions. More down that route.
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".
In case it's needed, here's a link to the transcript of the interview, and a quote of the specific mention.
[link]
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.
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
Yes. Plain facts. Leave the interpretations to each person. (Which, honestly, is more damning. But also up to the individual.)
I like where this discussion is going and am admiring the spicy brains on display.
(BTW, I'm late to the disco. I cannot believe I'm the #1 poster in Spoilers. Damn)
back to your scheduled discussion of monkey bites.
