Three more days

[pawsplay]

Nope, people just go elsewhere to blow off steam. What purpose do you think the edition wars serve?

I don't think "edition wars" themselves serve any great purpose. I do think discussions about differences in edition serve a valuable purpose, and the current ban pretty much forbids entire avenues of discussion ultimately worth having. Sports guys debate teams, we debate games.

 

[jdrakeh]

It's been nice without them, I'm not sure we need them back

Agreed.

 

[pawsplay]

I wonder what's the equivalent of the Berlin Wall?

WotC's online content.

 

[Derro]

Oh, come on. It will be cathartic. Everyone's so darned polite around here, someone's going to get murdered.

If you want catharsis go to RPG.net. I like Enworld polite and clean.
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So... I'll be over at RPG.net flaming some tool for liking Exalted.

 

[pawsplay]

If you want catharsis go to RPG.net. I like Enworld polite and clean.

Ha! Well, I find the moderation there pretty heavy-handed. I might be biased, though; I have a lifetime ban there for reporting Cessa for a conduct violation.

 

[Vanuslux]

Maybe there should be one official edition war thread where everyone can duke it out all they want while the ban stays in effect for the rest of the boards. Heck...edition war threads almost deserve their own sub-forum. It would at least give people a place to speak their minds without trampling all over the other forums.

 

[racoffin]

Is there anything really left to say on the matter?

 

[Crothian]

I don't think "edition wars" themselves serve any great purpose. I do think discussions about differences in edition serve a valuable purpose, and the current ban pretty much forbids entire avenues of discussion ultimately worth having. Sports guys debate teams, we debate games.

In theory that is all well and good but in practice we don't debate games. Just like in practice many sports guys don't debate teams, some of those sports forums are nasty places. Instead of debate we get nasty insulting sly comments from people who can't understand why other people play different games. But that's not the worst thing about it. In threads that have nothing to do with different editions we get the same people trying to make it one.

If we could get a good discussion about the good and bad of different games and different editions I'd be all for it but I'm not sure it has really ever been able to happen.

 

[wedgeski]

Frankly the ban doesn't seem to have done anything except force people to think of new terms in which to couch the edition war many seem intent on having.

 

[Lord Sessadore]

What Crothian said. Edition discussion is much different than edition wars. If there was a thread that contained a civil discussion of the two editions with no flaming, no insulting, ect..., I would be shocked if the mods locked it.

Edit: Not that I see such a thread ever really occurring. It is the Internet, after all.