MERGED - "About Edition Wars" threads x9

[I'm A Banana]

Listen.

You will never be rid of edition wars.

It is like trying to be rid of, I dunno, racists.

Most people think racists are silly and ignorant and hurtful and problematic and I doubt you'll get three people in a crowd to agree to the "we need more racism!" proposition.

But it is not exactly like one can invent rules to get rid of reactionary emotional lunacy. It exists. It will always exist. You cannot stop it. It is part and parcel of existing.

You can fight against it.

You don't fight against it by saying "Can't we all just get along?" You fight against it by not participating in it and not rewarding it with attention.

See an edition war? Ignore it. Post a positive thread about how awesome something is. Slap the worst offenders on your ignore list.

But crying about it will get us nowhere, and inventing rules against it will just drive it to be even more annoying and passive-aggressive than it already is.

You can't stop it any more than you can stop winter or hurricanes. It is not a rational thing, it is a force of nature. One must weather the storm.

 

[renau1g]

Just to add on your post Kamikaze, in addition to ignoring it, report it and then ignore it, that way the mods, who have chosen to deal with these matters for the site, can address it, either with post removal/edit, suspension, or banning.

 

[Diamond Cross]

Meh:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR-ixnPtxU8]YouTube - Genesis - That's All[/ame]

 

[weem]

The "Edition Wars" Visualized!

I made this today really quick and thought I would share. Whenever I hear the phrase "Edition Wars", this is always what I picture...

You can see the full size version here...

Edition Wars Visualized… | d&d done wrong | d&d thoughts and parody

 

[renau1g]

2nd edition is fubar'd there, stuck between 1e AD&D and 4e...

My expected winner (besides all of us for the chuckles) is OD&D, I mean AD&D doesn't even bother with it, so it can focus all its efforts on 3.xe/2e and from there...the world! diaglo will be so pleased.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Uh oh. At least one logo is absent.... and someone's bound to be vexed.

 

[Stormonu]

OD&D is mercenary; it has no lands of its own, but freely fights any and all editions...

 

[Diamond Cross]

remember nagasaki!

 

[Saeviomagy]

So do meta-mega-meta-thread arguments go here?

 

[Dausuul]

Meta-threads are ruining the forums. They aren't really threads any more, they're just like threads on the WoW boards! ENWorld is just pushing all these meta-threads to get us to shell out for adventure paths.

Paizo's forums are the future of Intarwebbing.