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
So, I’ve been feeling conflicted, and it’s the sort of conflicted that involves The Board, so let me bring the conflicted-ness to the group as a whole.
Many of you are familiar with the current news stories about TVTropes’ deletion of tropes involving the word “rape” to conform to Google’s AdSense requirements. The Mary Sue, in particular, quotes “Fast Eddie” on the subject, and comes away sounding at least somewhat conflicted on the issue.
I feel like I/we have information that is relevant to the conversation. I know that it’s a sore subject around here, and I wouldn’t bring it up except that this seems like a moment when it might really be heard.
I was thinking of sending a message to The Mary Sue writers, but realized that the only way I could, in good conscience, do so would be to ask that the information only be used “on background,” at which point, what could they possibly do with it? Now, the board is already name-checked on the io9 TVTropes origin story, so they could fairly easily end up here if given a nudge. But, well, that would be drama. And I am loathe to bring drama into our house if it’s not necessary.
I kind of think it might be.
What is to be gained by sticking our oar in?
Hmmm...gained? Probably nothing. It felt like the Right Thing To Do: Truth, Justice, and the Sunnydale Way, or whatever phrasing you prefer.
It pisses me off that he's probably making a fuckload of money off that site, personally, but I'm not rational on the subject.
I don't see the connection between this and what he did here. Aside from providing further evidence that he's a jerk, I don't see how we can add anything useful.
Debet, do you mean to explain to the Mary Sue writers why he would have dismissed the whole issue so easily? I'm not sure you can actually link his behavior here with that, and otherwise I don't see what would be served by addressing it.
More in the broader sense of, "Some people seem to be giving him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps you should reconsider that decision, as he has demonstrated that he gives exactly no fucks about other people on at least one occasion."
I'd be inclined not to bother unless it becomes more directly relevant. But I like the low-profile, low-drama.
More in the broader sense of, "Some people seem to be giving him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps you should reconsider that decision, as he has demonstrated that he gives exactly no fucks about other people on at least one occasion."
I tend to agree with this (as I said on Natter this afternoon). I do think that Gus/Eddie's history of being not just flexible with the truth but actively malicious to an online community is relevant to the Troper community. In fact, I don't actually believe that Eddie is trying very hard to save those pages in the face of Google's algorithm. I don't believe anything he says in public.
I'm with Dana. He's probablyy making a shit ton of money off of ideas that he, (as I understand), at the very gleaned from b.org under an assumed name and then faked his death. At the very least, I want that effer discredited.
