Jeff Atwood on Forum Drama

[MidKnight]

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/0 ... urder.html

It's an interesting article. How accurate do you think it is?

[Beherith]

He lumps together all meta as useless drivel - while management, planning, discussion are all key meta elements that are necessary.

[knorke]

Does this count as meta:
This forum likes to discuss
1) how awesome old stuff was (ie E&E)
2) how awesome future stuff will be (ie Imperial Winter)
3) How BA could be made more like XY
While in the meantime the present (games that are already playable) does not get talked about so much.

[PicassoCT]

Can we have a forumticker with exotic open games currently searching for players?

[AF]

Meta only matters when the spring forum moderators can be arsed/newly appointed.

The only fix is either a constant influx of moderators refreshing the entire board every 4 months, or brainwashing and energy drinks.

Good old fashioned technical innovation was never an option here, making all of Jeff Attwoods points utterly innaccesible

[MidKnight]

I asked, "how accurate do you think this is?" because I don't quite agree with Atwood. I don't think all meta is bad or that meta does really kill communities, as long as there's a healthy amount of signal (not-meta discussion) keeping things on track. I think the whole purpose of the meta discussion is to improve communities' power to attract and retain new members, and I don't think a little meta would really interfere with that, as long as it hasn't overrun the rest of the community.

I'm also behind what Beherith said.

[smoth]

He is lumping too much into meta. It's like listening to those idiots who love to throw around buzzwords. Article was a waste of time

[Teutooni]

Ok, so he says himself meta-blogging is "incredibly boring". How boring is blogging about meta-blogging (meta-meta-blogging)?

[Cheesecan]

I found that an incredibly boring read.

[knorke]

has there ever been a blog post that was interessting to read?

[PicassoCT]

Its alll your fault, wouldnt you be so tremendous good drama actors, and notepad++ being so unseductive, i would have acomplished lots of stuff.

Also, i think its the desks under the mouse of players that cost us the our playerbase. If we would ship handcarved woooden dsd mousepads, everything would be diffrent.