Forum Overview :: The Elder Scrolls

Nothing intelligent can ever be discussed at Caltrops. by Zseni 08/01/2004, 10:40pm PDT Not as long as I'm here, bringing down the general level of discourse. What I want is a Wikipedia full of Caltrops posters, with everyone having the same ability to edit each others' posts and manifesting articles and forums alike in a conglomerate which individual users differentiate for themselves (this person answers "articles" with "articles," this other one uses "talk"; another posts "articles" and "talk" alike to "article" pages, etc. Articles branch off each other; people post reams of chat logs as addenda to articles or to comments of articles, etc. etc. etc.) (But divide the articles into pages.) If there were a Caltropsian wikipedia, my belief that Caltrops is an RPG would be fully implemented (forced on others) by turning content creation and forum chatter alike into a massive round of Nomic a la miasma, with video games and fag jokes as strange attractors. Instantly. Since all the rules would have to be made live and modified by those who follow them. The new forum overlord is not a person, it's the developing ruleset (weak, socially-enforced limiter) and the limitations of the technology at hand (strong arbitrary limiter.) Well I'm just interested in seeing how the community develops itself. How quickly is it decided that there must be some unchangeable documents, how soon will someone appoint himself to the office of sherrif, whether a decision is made to route around a crazy sherrif or to fall in under him, how interested people can stay in the political day-to-day, what gets fought over. Wikipedia supports itself (internally, as a group project or community) by having a purpose; cutting it loose from that purpose and the laws built up to protect that purpose would be an awesome spectacle of human behavior. I got my panties in a wedge over the Purple Junta and the Crazy Admin; I have my panties in a wedge now that, because of the design and publishing structure, ICJ has to make time to make edits for people perfectly capable of editing their own articles. I won't be fully happy until there are no differences between forum and content besides self-assigned ones, and no differences between admin and user at all. Sticking points: someone has to be the site contact. The massiveness of the proposed system smothers itself without an actual purpose to inflate it. People are generally content with the current system with ICJ as Real Admin and BDR in some nebulously threatening Forum Cop (stuffing donuts down his beleaguered craw, reading posts obsessively to justify his titular badge) role. Nothing intelligent can ever be discussed at Caltrops.

Nothing intelligent can ever be discussed at Caltrops. by Zseni 08/01/2004, 10:40pm PDT     Why don't you just start up your own cyber-libertopia? by Creexul :( 08/01/2004, 10:49pm PDT         That would require effort on her part. NT by Zseni 08/01/2004, 10:55pm PDT             Maybe she likes us? NT by Creexul :( 08/01/2004, 11:01pm PDT                 Maybe we don't like her NT by Veronica 08/01/2004, 11:12pm PDT                     Good call, boss. NT by Monty Cantsin 08/01/2004, 11:18pm PDT     Blog me a river by Entropy Stew 08/02/2004, 12:03am PDT         Re: Blog me a river by whydirt 08/02/2004, 12:06am PDT             Re: Blog me a river by Entropy Stew 08/02/2004, 12:09am PDT         Re: Blog me a river by Zseni 08/02/2004, 12:25am PDT     Re: Nothing intelligent can ever be discussed at Caltrops. by Bill Dungsroman 08/02/2004, 12:40am PDT         Re: Nothing intelligent can ever be discussed at Caltrops. by Zseni 08/02/2004, 2:39am PDT             Then sign up to get bukkaked and shut the fuck up NT by Entropy Stew 08/02/2004, 8:53am PDT                 Yeah, people who post to message boards are awful. by Zseni 08/02/2004, 10:45am PDT                     Cunt makes awful retort? NT by samus 08/02/2004, 10:46am PDT                     Re: Yeah, people who post to message boards are awful. by Entropy Stew 08/03/2004, 11:06pm PDT         Re: Nothing intelligent can ever be discussed at Caltrops. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/07/2017, 2:05pm PST     CMS by jeep 08/02/2004, 10:36pm PDT         first rule: jeep must close all tags NT by jeep 08/02/2004, 10:37pm PDT         Re: CMS by Zseni 08/03/2004, 6:09pm PDT             Re: CMS by jeep 08/04/2004, 6:21pm PDT                 Re: CMS by Zseni 08/05/2004, 4:30pm PDT                     zseni I need your email for testing by jeep 08/07/2004, 10:49pm PDT                         I'm gonna mess with this, and invite my brother along too... NT by Chairman Mao 08/08/2004, 2:04am PDT                     OK basic setup by jeep 08/07/2004, 11:35pm PDT                         "The XML page cannot be displayed" NT by IE user 08/08/2004, 8:06pm PDT                             Invisible comments NT by Firefox user 08/08/2004, 8:59pm PDT                                 My Bad by jeep 08/08/2004, 11:27pm PDT     True, for very small values of "Caltrops" by Ray of Light 08/03/2004, 12:26am PDT     I want witty and insightful sigs complete with gfx at the end of every post! NT by Mischief Maker 08/03/2004, 8:10am PDT         Girls aren't allowed that. NT by Zseni 08/03/2004, 9:09am PDT         you mean like this? by FABIO 08/03/2004, 6:08pm PDT             Fuck you! My sig is hilarious! by Mischief Maker 08/03/2004, 10:37pm PDT                 Could you be veronica for a minute and send me a backup of the forum? by Entropy Stew 08/03/2004, 11:10pm PDT                     That's it! ICJ, delete the forum or I'm throwing you out! by Mischief Maker 08/04/2004, 8:43am PDT                 Aren't you forgetting that I'M one of those personalities? NT by FABIO 08/03/2004, 11:20pm PDT                 Who is publishing your strategy guide on forum posting? NT by Lurker Shoomoser 08/08/2004, 10:50am PDT     Re: Nothing intelligent can ever be discussed at Caltrops. by laudablepuss 08/03/2004, 11:27am PDT     WIKI WAH WIKI WIKI WIKI WAH WAH NT by Will Smith 08/04/2004, 8:52am PDT