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Secondary Fictionsuit Madness!

Spyder Todd 2008

21:20 / 04.08.03

So, I have an idea. Tell me if it's stupid. Then tell me if I should do it anyway. I want to create another fictionsuit for myself, one that can occasionally point out when I'm being a pain in the ass and other stuff. What does everyone think?

21:40 / 04.08.03

I think now is not the time to spawn secondary fictionsuits.

23:15 / 04.08.03

I would concur.

00:08 / 05.08.03

no. (says a man who's been wearing the same shoes since day one)

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

00:33 / 05.08.03

Sounds like a good idea, and one that I have considered myself, but isn't it intrinsically against the cast-in-stone etiquette of Barbelith, i.e. that we should adhere to one, single, solitary, exclusive fictionsuit per user?

If not, then secondary persona her I come!!!

00:53 / 05.08.03

Balls to etiquette, it's simply not a clever idea at the moment. use a little common sense, people; when there's a problem with some plank imitating other posters and using multiple suits to both pester other posters and get around a banning, using multiple suits is only going to get you lumped in with him.

Kind of pointless asking the question anyway, when new suits can't be registered precisely because of this problem. Every now and again it pays to read other threads.

Spyder Todd 2008

00:59 / 05.08.03

Yeah, I recently was reading some of that stuff....
The only reason I want to do it is because I really don't believe in an absolute right way to do anything, so I always have this voice in my head going,"Stupid fucker! It doesn't work like that! You should of done this!" and such. So, I was thin king of releasing that on the board when ever I say or do something that I know isn't "perfect" per say. So that I can point out the flaws in my own arguments, so to speak, without confusing the hell out of everyone else reading them.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

05:49 / 05.08.03

No. To put it simply... No-one expects 100% rationality and for everyone to think through every single aspect of something before they post, but if you post something and then change your mind, be big enough that you'll admit it. Having another fiction suit is like buying another car so you've got one to take you to work, and the other to bring you home again.

06:34 / 05.08.03

It also removes some of the responsibility of the content of your original suit's postings, given that your alternate suit can then criticize and/or amend what should have been said. Unfortunately, that isn't a good enough justification for making irresponsible posts in the first place.

The best option, IMHO, is to spare a little thought prior to posting, and, as Lady of the Flowers says, admit - and learn from - mistakes afterwards.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

09:27 / 05.08.03

Barbelith was once a great mass of seething secondary and tertiary identities. It was interesting for a while, and then it became annoying, and finally it became an annoyance. More recently, as you now know, it has been an advantage for the board's idiot-in-residence. As a consequence, it's one of Barbelith's few strongly-asserted no-no's; the only exceptions I know of being Tom himself and one suit which was created specifically and uniquely for the magick forum as part of a magickal experiment.

So yes, it is cast in stone. Don't do it.

Spyder Todd 2008

18:44 / 05.08.03

Thanks all for your thoughts. This is why I asked about it instead of just doing it

01:20 / 06.08.03

I think my two memelets (servitor ficsuits I created solely for the purpose of commenting on my ongoing adventures in the MorriQuitelyverse) are still kicking about on here, but it's been a while since I've used 'em. I did ask for permission first, though.

In a related development, when all this Knodgesense is over, I'm thinking of giving away the velvetvandal ficsuit to whoever fancies a run at it, and going full time as Imaginaut. I've even considered having some 'Reign of the Vandals' style fun by allowing various people to lay claim to the ID (by incorporating the words 'velvet' or 'vandal' into their suits, i.e Spyder would become Spydervandal, Haus would become velvetHaus etc) and then giving the password away to whoever I like best (obviously only after checking with TC that it isn't u-know-'oo up to his old tricks beforehand), but as people have said, at the mo' this kind of innocent fun will have to wait a while. Oh well...

You wouldn't get the memelets, tho'. They are my bitches.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

05:47 / 06.08.03

Don't give away the ficsuit, as we've seen with the ReformedRobotMan suit there are people out there who are happy to grab it and then cause trouble. Just ask Tom to delete it.