Anyway, I've been away on a business trip for the last couple of days. The wiki failed to collapse without me. In fact, it even got edits. Fighteer may call us a troll site, but we're still going to be here next year, still editing. That makes me happy. Anyway, a few comments on what you've been talking about:
I don't think it's possible to avoid being made fun of. A large portion of the site is going to be gushing about stuff you love, no matter what the policy is going to be. People edit the pages of works they like. It's going to be mostly self-selection on the part of users. And that's okay.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, anyway. Cataloging popular works are as important -- in fact more important -- than gathering data on "good" works. Popular culture influences how society thinks more than great works of literature do. The great works have their place and do influence culture, but even Shakespeare wouldn't have survived unless he was popular. For the first time in the history of the world, the thoughts of the common folk -- not just the rich and the educated -- are being documented and preserved as part of the corpus of human history. So the intelligentsia can complain all they want at our overcoverage of Negima or analysis of poorly drawn porn, but I'm going to be too busy listening to "Call Me Maybe" on YouTube to care.
How the heck are people confusing "time" and "toy"? They sound even less alike in Japanese. Reordering the crossover name as Lotte no Kodomo no Omocha no Jikan would make more sense (and possibly a viable plot).
@GethN7: Hey, Wiki Trails are a perfectly serviceable documentation feature. It's only the hack to turn them into categories that's horrid.
I think I have a good name for a new shell utility. Maybe something along the lines of Perl::Critic.
Anyway, I'll try and change the table markup to mediawiki-style tomorrow.
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I don't think it's possible to avoid being made fun of. A large portion of the site is going to be gushing about stuff you love, no matter what the policy is going to be. People edit the pages of works they like. It's going to be mostly self-selection on the part of users. And that's okay.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, anyway. Cataloging popular works are as important -- in fact more important -- than gathering data on "good" works. Popular culture influences how society thinks more than great works of literature do. The great works have their place and do influence culture, but even Shakespeare wouldn't have survived unless he was popular. For the first time in the history of the world, the thoughts of the common folk -- not just the rich and the educated -- are being documented and preserved as part of the corpus of human history. So the intelligentsia can complain all they want at our overcoverage of Negima or analysis of poorly drawn porn, but I'm going to be too busy listening to "Call Me Maybe" on YouTube to care.
How the heck are people confusing "time" and "toy"? They sound even less alike in Japanese. Reordering the crossover name as Lotte no Kodomo no Omocha no Jikan would make more sense (and possibly a viable plot).
@GethN7: Hey, Wiki Trails are a perfectly serviceable documentation feature. It's only the hack to turn them into categories that's horrid.
Quote:target of such scorn(1)
Quote:brent% man scorn 1No manual entry for scorn
I think I have a good name for a new shell utility. Maybe something along the lines of Perl::Critic.Anyway, I'll try and change the table markup to mediawiki-style tomorrow.
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