You did. My inner snarkiness decided to make an appearance.
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
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: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Maria - Apr 06, 2004 12:13:39 pm PDT #9292 of 10005
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Burrell - Apr 06, 2004 12:15:28 pm PDT #9293 of 10005
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Burrell, do you mean the untypable name thing too? Or are you reacting to a different suggestion for the text?
I'm fine with the "make your name typable" suggestion, I just keep bristling at the "Back on TT, we all used our real names, so you should too" stuff because it strikes me as kinda condescending.
sumi - Apr 06, 2004 12:16:52 pm PDT #9294 of 10005
Art Crawl!!!
Well, TT wanted people to use their real names -- but not everyone did.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2004 12:19:34 pm PDT #9295 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just keep bristling at the "Back on TT, we all used our real names, so you should too" stuff because it strikes me as kinda condescending.
That's not in the last text everyone liked, unless I missed a revision to what Ginger said.
Buffistas tend to choose user names that can be easily used in conversation. Sometimes they are people's real names or nicknames; sometimes they are the names they always wished their parents had the sense to give them. You may feel cosmically drawn to the name @$sd_myxp12, but "What @$sd_myxp12 said" does not fall trippingly off the fingers. To reduce confusion, please avoid the names of famous people, including ME writers, and the names of existing posters. For example, if your name is Tiffany and there is already a Tiffany on the board, pick a variation, whether it be TiffanyT or Breakfast.
Is there another text that's the problem?
Burrell - Apr 06, 2004 12:34:31 pm PDT #9296 of 10005
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Sorry, ita. I wasn't trying to revise the FAQ. I shoulda just kept me mouth shut.
Liese S. - Apr 06, 2004 12:36:07 pm PDT #9297 of 10005
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
No, ita, that's the text I'm responding to. And I think Ginger's text is fine phrasing, if necessary. I'm just generally uncomfortable with the concept. What is the line that's easy to use in conversation?
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2004 12:36:33 pm PDT #9298 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I shoulda just kept me mouth shut.
I'm not getting on your case for having (or voicing) the opinion, just worried that two people have a concern about something that may be posted and I can't see where.
It's hard to keep track of the latest version of anything in a thread, and I just want to make sure I'm on the same page.
Aims - Apr 06, 2004 12:37:19 pm PDT #9299 of 10005
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Page 234, ita.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2004 12:37:57 pm PDT #9300 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm just generally uncomfortable with the concept.
Okay, now I get it. You're objecting to the untypable thing, but Burrell's not.
See? I didn't understand what was going on.
Now do.
Page 234, ita.
Dammit. Mine only goes up to F0.
Liese S. - Apr 06, 2004 12:39:13 pm PDT #9301 of 10005
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yup. I was objecting to the real name thing first, but since that seems settled...