Fan Policy? FAQ?

[Lizard]

Uhm...Lizard did not intend "subtle contempt and scorn". Lizard wants to know if there is any news, even a "We can't stop to work on the FAQ now, we're too busy counting the money from the sold-out PHB." Lizard attempted to evoke a humorous moment from a classic 1980s film. Lizard forgot humour doesn't work well on the net unless you add smileys to everything . If John Swift lived today, he'd have been an accountant.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Uhm...Lizard did not intend "subtle contempt and scorn".

Well, I did add the qualifiers "possible" and "to an interpreter". I found the humor.

 

[jmucchiello]

Every working definition of sarcasm I know involves using language deliberately opposite of what one means.

The word Opposite does not appear at all on this dictionary page.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Have you seen the definition of irony lately? It's not what Alanis Morissette thinks it means.

 

[FormerlyDickensC]

The more I think about it, and the more I don't want to admit it, I think the lack of news and info has everything to do with Hasbro's lawsuit against RJ Software and Scrabulous.

If Hasbro loses this suit, and I think they will, the affects are going to be felt throughout gaming for some time to come...I think.

But what do I know?

 

[Lizard]

This may have something to do with the delay:
http://www.gleemax.com/Comms/Pages/Communities/BlogPost.aspx?blogpostid=96074&pagemode=2&blogid=2158

Without gleemax, any proposed fan site policy might be more liberal, as there is no longer any reason for WOTC to consider MyCoolDnDSite.com a potential distraction from their own social network.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Without gleemax, any proposed fan site policy might be more liberal, as there is no longer any reason for WOTC to consider MyCoolDnDSite.com a potential distraction from their own social network.

So true. I'm a bit surprised gleemax is being taken out behind the barn and being put down . . . well, partly surprised.

 

[FormerlyDickensC]

So true. I'm a bit surprised gleemax is being taken out behind the barn and being put down . . . well, partly surprised.

Some one some where realizes how badly things have been messed up. This is the first public sign of that acknowledgment.

I think that DDI's fate is in question now. I mean, it may not be. There is no real reason for it to be so. But, if you can't make a simple forum community work, I think its reasonable that DDI's launch may not be handled well either (but that is a big stretch on my part)...assuming it is actually produced to begin with. Well, I like 4E the system. But everything else is definitely a failure. Oh well, it was a nice idea.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

But, if you can't make a simple forum community work, I think its reasonable that DDI's launch may not be handled well either (but that is a big stretch on my part)...assuming it is actually produced to begin with.

From what I have read, the part of gleemax that is being ushered away is the social network part, not the forums.