Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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
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.
It is the best board I've ever found for usability.
Not disagreeing there! I hate most forum software with a burning and also itchy hatred.
I'm sure I could get some good information from some of the cancer forums, but the design of almost all of them makes my head hurt. Also, people use lol and the spelling is really bad.
I think I should call Nick Denton and see if I can work out a deal...
Y'all probably figured, as soon as you saw me posting in Natter, tonight, that I've been chewing on this same thing. Surprisingly, even (or especially) to me, I don't think this community will be served by outing Fast Eddie/Kimi/Gus/Janitor to other sites. Why would or should they believe us or care?
That said, I wonder if we would be served by having a FAQ entry on the whole deal. Some of this is too personal for me. That incident started me on my journey away from this board.