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Maybe "The House of Secrets"?
Harrison: I think there's a huge problem about maintaining space that is both playful and safe. Generally, I think we do a pretty good job of it, but possibly at the moment we are too sensitive to safety, I think again because we can't _really_ react quickly, so there is this extending doctrine of preemption. Recently, there have been some banning threads which have seemed to me to be reorganising the relationship between being a pain and and being a bannnable pain, which have resulted in... well, I guess either in the person having at least a forum in which people can talk about how they could play in a more considerate way, as a best case, or in a kind of acceleration to bandouchiness.
Possibly Barbelith is no longer workable - I think that, without a technology refresh that will probably never come, it is lkely to become an accreting series of barbannoys on all sides. The only real solution to that may be to move everyone over to a new board, under a related kind of airquotes-brand-umbrella-airquotes, with Tom as a consultant/godfather rather than a hands-on-levers helmsman. I'd rather that board didn't have quite the same brand associations, because at the moment, as I've said, it means that the people who apply are disproportionately comics/magic people and tend to turn up with unrealistic expectations, which aren't really fair to them, to us or, really, to Grant Morrison himself. |
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