MOW pages: @GethN7 just run a bot to delink all user pages for
now?
[context needed]: no
comments?
I've started on the policy pages, as
promised, but I quickly hit upon an elephant. Look at Spoiler
Policy, scroll to the bottom. Is it a bad thing that
I like the "cancerous" example much better than the "good" version
directly above it?
The elephant in question is
natter. I actually like the snarky fan
commentary aspect of the website. Naturally, TVT had three
redundant policies on natter, which were redundant and numbered three:
Conversation in the
Main Page, Justifying
Edit, and Thread
Mode. None of them are bad all
on their own, though they have varying levels of
condescension. It's almost as if it was the culture behind the
'anti-natter brigade' that was driving the reductionism, rather than
the policy itself.
I took a crack at a replacement
here.
I went with Thread Mode as the name because I've grown to hate the word
"natter" and I'm used to the name from Ward's Wiki. The only
remaining question for me is if we want an even looser policy.
Like, is thread mode on the main pages an OK thing, so long as people
feel free to come along and refactor later? I'd really like to
avoid the Stop Having Fun Guys culture, but it's not like a style guide
should hurt all that much. I hope.
-- ∇×V
now?
[context needed]: no
comments?
I've started on the policy pages, as
promised, but I quickly hit upon an elephant. Look at Spoiler
Policy, scroll to the bottom. Is it a bad thing that
I like the "cancerous" example much better than the "good" version
directly above it?
The elephant in question is
natter. I actually like the snarky fan
commentary aspect of the website. Naturally, TVT had three
redundant policies on natter, which were redundant and numbered three:
Conversation in the
Main Page, Justifying
Edit, and Thread
Mode. None of them are bad all
on their own, though they have varying levels of
condescension. It's almost as if it was the culture behind the
'anti-natter brigade' that was driving the reductionism, rather than
the policy itself.
I took a crack at a replacement
here.
I went with Thread Mode as the name because I've grown to hate the word
"natter" and I'm used to the name from Ward's Wiki. The only
remaining question for me is if we want an even looser policy.
Like, is thread mode on the main pages an OK thing, so long as people
feel free to come along and refactor later? I'd really like to
avoid the Stop Having Fun Guys culture, but it's not like a style guide
should hurt all that much. I hope.
-- ∇×V