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I always wanted to put on a production of Tinkerbell, and have Peter look up at the audience and say, slowly and clearly.
"It's no good. You didn't believe hard enough. Tinkerbell's dead and it's your fault."
Curtain.
Way-ull....as the still centre of a fair bit of the recent round of girlfighting, I'd say things here are....much the same as they were.
The Headshop and Books are maybe yet more lamentably underposted than at some points, the toys sailing out of prams a leeetle faster in the Conversation that sometimes, but then that judgement reflects my own disappointments with the Board, which have remained pretty much stable and, well, *mine*.
I think Barbelith may be changing - most obviously, there has been an influx of people who, for good or bad, don't give a toss about The Revolution, whatsoever that may be. That might be a good thing or a bad thing. Personally, if somebody who only ever posts in the conversation about their favourite hair dye wants to PayPal Tom $2.50 a month to keep the board going, then I tend to feel we should consider that a good thing, since it helps to maintain the whole environment, and, as Flux and Ganesh have pointed out, the scrapping is generally hemmed into the Conversation, which some people seem to take very seriously indeed and others treat as a matter of personal amusement. Diff'rent strokes, you know.
He said I was Neptune.
He made me play tridents
I think something which has got lost in the noise (and I think, WTUR, the way it was put was something of a contributing factor to this) is Kooky's suggestion that people are too intimidated to venture into sections of the board outside the Conversation. Which *is* a bit of a worrying assertion.
Mind you, on average the Conversation provides a noticeably higher standard of discussion than any other message board I have encountered, so it's not exactly *all* bad...depends what you want to get out of the place, I guess.
And, you know, the good old days had things like the full-time presence of dear old RRM, who, amusing as he may have been, could out-point a relative amateur like the KNodge on volume of posting and nastiness of personal abuse anytime...it's not exaclty all whiskers on kittens. |
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