(03-11-2021, 06:52 PM)GethN7 Wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I may be unavailable for a few days, getting over a stomach virus, and looking at a computer too much makes me ill, I'll be mostly out until I'm better.

If anything critical occurs, let me know, I'll chime in whenever I feel remotely decent, but otherwise, I'm gonna be out of touch until I feel better.

(03-12-2021, 08:53 AM)robkelk Wrote: Refresh my memory, please; Was Gandalf ever described as wearing anything other that grey when he was called Gandalf the Gray, or white when he was called Gandalf the White?

Asking for a YKTTW.

(03-12-2021, 06:08 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Indeed it does, although it's clear that the article's author hasn't delved too deeply into the history between its founding and the buyout.  I was surprised to find the Drew and Chris also own or are part-owners of Salon and Snopes...  and for the day I finally snap and go postal, I'm glad I now know where to find Fighteer.  <grin>

I suggest we link to this on the Analysis page for TVT, just for its info value.

(03-14-2021, 02:05 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Re: ruqqus.  No opinion here, either, but I reserve the right to acquire one.  I used to not care at all about social media sites, but I've of late grown concerned about even accidental association of the wiki with neo-Nazis and insurrectionists.

Quote:Quoting from that wiki's About page:
{{quote|Likewise, this wiki is free documentation: the [https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html text of the GNU Free Documentation License] provides that each NetHackWiki page gives everyone "the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially."}}

So there's the license. We don't have a predefined license template for the GNU Free Documentation License, so use {{tl|Other free}} and provide the link after that template.

(03-14-2021, 02:09 PM)GethN7 Wrote:

(03-14-2021, 02:05 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Re: ruqqus.  No opinion here, either, but I reserve the right to acquire one.  I used to not care at all about social media sites, but I've of late grown concerned about even accidental association of the wiki with neo-Nazis and insurrectionists.

More than fair. Hence why I asked.

I had a list of proposed rules for said guild, should it be established, just to make sure we don't have another Voat situation:

1. This is an unofficial fan community, it has no bearing, impact, or responsibility for All The Tropes on Wikia or Miraheze whatsoever, and is not representative of them in any official capacity.

2. This guild is for discussing tropes, their use in media, and the troping community in a civil manner. Politics and any other contentious topics are not be discussed (excepting any that have a directly provable impact on the troping community).

3. This guild has zero tolerance for anyone who posts anything illegal, abusive, discriminatory or otherwise is posted in bad faith.

UPDATE: I can now form a guild, would like a consensus before I do anything.

(03-15-2021, 01:08 PM)GethN7 Wrote:

(03-14-2021, 02:09 PM)GethN7 Wrote:

(03-14-2021, 02:05 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Re: ruqqus.  No opinion here, either, but I reserve the right to acquire one.  I used to not care at all about social media sites, but I've of late grown concerned about even accidental association of the wiki with neo-Nazis and insurrectionists.

More than fair. Hence why I asked.

I had a list of proposed rules for said guild, should it be established, just to make sure we don't have another Voat situation:

1. This is an unofficial fan community, it has no bearing, impact, or responsibility for All The Tropes on Wikia or Miraheze whatsoever, and is not representative of them in any official capacity.

2. This guild is for discussing tropes, their use in media, and the troping community in a civil manner. Politics and any other contentious topics are not be discussed (excepting any that have a directly provable impact on the troping community).

3. This guild has zero tolerance for anyone who posts anything illegal, abusive, discriminatory or otherwise is posted in bad faith.

UPDATE: I can now form a guild, would like a consensus before I do anything.

Added more proposed rules since I plan to take responsibility:

4. While this guild is managed and owned by a staff member of All The Tropes, this is done as a courtesy to the ATT community. No official business should be discussed here, such as ban appeals, though merely asking for advice on other things like page formatting or general questions about All The Tropes is perfectly acceptable.

5. Tropers from any and all websites that discuss troping, TV Tropes included, are perfectly welcome to discuss the same with us. We consider the troping community a family, and despite using different places to do so, all can discuss our shared interests here equally.

(03-15-2021, 03:24 PM)Labster Wrote: I'm kind of a shrug as well. From which I am getting that there is not much interest among us in joining yet another social network, at least on a personal basis.  Which means that if you want to manage it Geth, you can go ahead and do it.  I doubt you'll get much help, but maybe some new people will join.

I don't think the thing with Voat ended up being harmful to us.  So I'm not really worried about the implications of this site, whatever it turns out to be in the future.  Unless it becomes Skynet, of course.