blog flog: 9 February 2005

[pith]

link: http://www.eridine.com/blog/2005_02_01_archive.html#110796173597516136
title: "The Guest Book"
date: 9 February 2005

And another big flaming WTF-award goes to Jonathan!


First of all... dude, learn how to spell. Use a spell check, at the very least. If I had a dollar for every spelling error in this post... well, at least it would recoup some of the money I wasted on Narcissus in Chains.

It became a hotbed of negitivity and name calling. If this was in the official forums, the offending parties would have been banned, the post moderated and everything kept nice and civil.

Nice to know they fully endorse freedom of speech and everything.

You know, they should be grateful that people are griping in plain sight. Then, if they bothered to care, they could see what fans (and yes, many of us are still fans, in our own ways) truly thought. Now they'll just drive all the snark underground, where it will fester and grow and get even stronger because of it. Remember in Star Wars, when Princess Leia said "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers" [pp]? Yeah. It's gonna be like that. And do you remember who WON at the end? That's right. The Rebel Alliance. Not the evil Empire. Let's hope for a similar result here.*

* = NB: I love Darth Vader. I am in no way trying to say that LKH and her people are half as cool, organized, or efficient as the Empire.

Comments

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Uhhh. Huuuhn. Roiiight.

I'm still trying to figure out what he's trying to say here. I can understand if he's fed up with people that lack the typing skills to properly articulate their opinions. But alas, this doesn't seem to concern so many people as it should.

I can understand that some people may be so incensed, or even too young, to come up with a criticism more polite or witty than "U 5uX0r!!!!one one one!" and others may not actually live in this plane of reality.

But getting pissed off that the guestbook is being overrun by people that don't leave messages that don't say nice things? Um, it's impossible to be universally liked, so penalising those who don't share that opinion is fairly juvenille. Nobody's ever won at schoolyard tactics.

but expect a change. and proably one that is less pleasent for you, the readers.

One thing I've learned both as a member and a moderator is that while it may be fun to have a bit of a flame war, stooping to the same level as those you're against won't get you anywhere.

If he moves it all to an "official" forum, the moderators (if they're good) won't step in to quash all the negative opinions. They'll put a member that might be flaming in their place, but they sure as hell shouldn't deny the rest of the posters the chance to voice their opinion. Course, then there's those mods that flame, delete and ban people that don't share their ideal. Been there, dealt with them - it lead to mass quitting by nearly all the members and lead to the death of the forum.

And just as an aside, if everyone has the same opinion - things get boring very quickly. *book snicker* Woah, maybe LKH is coming down with a case of the Belle Mortes?

I now have an urge to leave a message in the book. Polite, but negative.

[nanale.livejournal.com]

But getting pissed off that the guestbook is being overrun by people that don't leave messages that don't say nice things?
I think he has more problems with the guest book becoming a second forum. I think I saw people fight with each other over several pages. But even this shouldn't be such a problem or am I wrong?? I never moderated a forum and don't join too many of them, so there's a certain lack of experience. Still, I don't think, that it's so complicated...
If he moves it all to an "official" forum, the moderators (if they're good) won't step in to quash all the negative opinions.
Our dear Jon sees it the other way round, he likes the idea of moderators banning people and other forum members keeping the oh so negative folks under control. (sorry for my flimsy grammar)

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I'm just thinking of a little function called "delete" - moderators and/or guestbook owners have the power to delete messages. If he was going to manage the guestbook properly, most of the arguments over pages and pages really should have been deleted.

PS. Meh, don't worry about your flimsy grammar. It's legiable. That counts.