Angelus ,'Smile Time'
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.
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I'm not going to lie, the thought crosses my mind in general from time to time, but I don't know what it has to do with this.
I'm not saying I'm not gonna snap one day if no one has done so beforehand. I'm just saying that if you're sharing the information and saying you're doing it because of *that*, you might get some side-eying from the audience assembled. But there will be side-eying anyway--no doubt he has his swelling ranks of faithful.
I say we sue him for copyright infringement on the basis that TV Tropes was Hec's idea in the first place. Then we use the money to buy a private island.
In that case I hope he makes trillions of dollars. Otherwise our share of the settlement will buy a veery small island. A one palm-tree beach, if you will.
If Hec hadn't actually copyrighted it, that would be a problem, but I guess you could prove it was his idea, right? With the archived threads?
I still think it should be exposed on This American Life. Not just to be exposed, but that it would actually be a great story.
If Hec hadn't actually copyrighted it, that would be a problem, but I guess you could prove it was his idea, right? With the archived threads?
Not that I am serious, but don't we say somewhere that all posts are copyright of the poster who makes them?
I say we sue him for copyright infringement on the basis that TV Tropes was Hec's idea in the first place. Then we use the money to buy a private island.
My idea was very different from what TV Tropes became. I don't think he stole anything from me. TV Tropes developed out of a conversation we were having but that's it. He acted on it (admittedly with much help from Buffistas getting it off the ground) and it took off. It was a free exchange of ideas, and that's a good thing.
I should probably go back in the Archives and find the original conversations so people understand how it evolved.
My idea was very different from what TV Tropes became. I don't think he stole anything from me
SHHHHHH!!!! You're giving away our private island money!
SHHHHHH!!!! You're giving away our private island money!
Step 3: Profit!
Actually, I think we'd probably make private island money by franchising our board's code.
As I watch more and more online communities get swallowed up by various commercial forces, our Island In the Net seems like a better and better idea. It's very affordable once you get to a certain population level.
I mean, I'd even give 'em our board's rules as a template to start from. Lord knows as many people as possible should benefit from all of Sophia's tears.
Actually, I think we'd probably make private island money by franchising our board's code.
No we wouldn't. There are way too many free/open-source discussion packages out there for anyone ever to think of paying for one (unless it's a component in a big locked-down package like a learning management system) (only all the cool kids are using open-source for that too). Most of them are the many-little-threads discussion model than the few-big-long-threads model, but even so.
We might could spin some money out of consulting on community management and cheesebutts, but people don't pay for code for this sort of thing.