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I can’t keep up with this, so apologies if my post is already out of date.
Surely: a thread about superhero fights is for jokes and pretty much nothing else. In Conversation it might get better results, because it’s talking about comics that don’t exist and never will. It’s a fun thread, but it might be far more fun to let everyone have a crack. Plenty of people on this site read comics/ used to read comics without them feeling the urge to hang around the Comics forum to write about them. Move it, and then maybe you’d get Joey Deacon versus Stephen Hawking as well as John Constantine versus Lex Luthor. Friday afternoon, laffs all round. If that thread doesn’t belong in Conversation, then you might as well bung the Christopher Lambert one into Film.
shouldn't it at least partially be up to the intent of the thread's author?
Amen. On the ‘literary agent’ thread remaining in Books, there were maybe four or five core contributors to that thread who’d have probably kept contributing wherever it was. If anything, keeping it in Books possibly served to keep a limit on the number and scope of contributions, rather than throwing the topic open to the legions of amateur writers in Creation. If Kovacs or anyone else feels that best helps the thread continue in the way that they want it to, what’s wrong with that? His objections kept the thing from being derailed from the course he wanted it to follow. Barbelith happily accommodated. The decision is taken by mods in cases like xxsarahxx’s ‘Leon’ thread or sjhrbr’s ‘Atheism’ thread where the threadstarter isn’t offering any kind of proper lead.
I think there’s a strange view of Conversation and Creation coming up here which seems to view them as some form of demotion. Pretty much everybody on Barbelith reads books, a lot of people read comics. If you want a thread that’s by and large only read and/or contributed to by those posters who identify themselves as serious ‘book reader’ or ‘comic reader’ types, then there’s a specific place for it. If you want a more general, knockabout fun thread it’ll probably end up being funnier in Conversation. Kovacs’ thread almost got a response from me on the possibilities of getting a press and printing up your own book, but the decision to keep it in Books rather than Creation indicated to me that it was intended to be a thread about getting on in the publishing industry rather than the work itself. Actually, I think he said something like that. Maybe Suedehead would be very well advised to punt Sleeping Beauty towards Creation sometime soon, because there’s people who might see it there who won’t have seen it in Comics, people who might be interested but aren't habitual comics readers.
I don’t think Creation is helped any if it’s looked down on. Maybe it’s not the busiest forum, but I can’t see any actual argument being made here for abolishing it. Apart from that Flux doesn’t post there and so it’s surplus to his requirements. |
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