Yeah, but do they have liner notes, huh? Do they?
Wow, only a day into hols and I'm already... well, as Bertie Wooster might put it, if not actually disgruntled, I am a long way from being gruntled.
See, I'd popped over to check my TV Tropes watchlist earlier and noted an edit on the Seltzer & Friedberg page, which I have spent some while nurturing from bare crumbs into a tasty snarkeriffic treat...
...past tense. The mods had 'wiped and locked' the page -- basically, removing all individualistic content and replacing with the About.com version -- citing concerns over 'negative' writing. Or 'juvenile', as per a first draft of the replacement text on the talk page.
Which... yeah. OK. Not to start ranting outright here, but S&F were responsible for Epic frelling Movie, ferPetesake. I don't quite see how society at large is benefited by protecting them from negative feedback. As I pointed out in my huffy talk-page note, that way ultimately lies 'Plan 9 From Outer Space: Ed Wood's misunderstood masterpiece.'
Whereupon I wound up with the classic threat to take my Internet and go home, so there! -- but on solemn reflection I don't think it's worth quite that level of huffy. Still peeved that that much work can be wiped out without my input, though. Granted, the wipe doesn't necessarily redound onto my particular contributions, but it's still hard to avoid the personal. Why, thank you, mods, for that lovely acknowledgement of many hours spent working hard to improve your wiki. Thank you so bloody much.
I'm also a bit discouraged to discover that once again, my particular writing talents are the... trapezoidal-or-something... peg in the square hole. At least it's never dull, trying to find a compromise between reason and snark on the Net.
See, I'd popped over to check my TV Tropes watchlist earlier and noted an edit on the Seltzer & Friedberg page, which I have spent some while nurturing from bare crumbs into a tasty snarkeriffic treat...
...past tense. The mods had 'wiped and locked' the page -- basically, removing all individualistic content and replacing with the About.com version -- citing concerns over 'negative' writing. Or 'juvenile', as per a first draft of the replacement text on the talk page.
Which... yeah. OK. Not to start ranting outright here, but S&F were responsible for Epic frelling Movie, ferPetesake. I don't quite see how society at large is benefited by protecting them from negative feedback. As I pointed out in my huffy talk-page note, that way ultimately lies 'Plan 9 From Outer Space: Ed Wood's misunderstood masterpiece.'
Whereupon I wound up with the classic threat to take my Internet and go home, so there! -- but on solemn reflection I don't think it's worth quite that level of huffy. Still peeved that that much work can be wiped out without my input, though. Granted, the wipe doesn't necessarily redound onto my particular contributions, but it's still hard to avoid the personal. Why, thank you, mods, for that lovely acknowledgement of many hours spent working hard to improve your wiki. Thank you so bloody much.
I'm also a bit discouraged to discover that once again, my particular writing talents are the... trapezoidal-or-something... peg in the square hole. At least it's never dull, trying to find a compromise between reason and snark on the Net.