RWED taking over the 'verse.
POSTED BY: Grizwald
UPDATED: Friday, December 21, 2007 09:19
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I don't know that there is anything that can be done about this, but RWED seems to be getting more and more and more active, to the point where, as I type this, 4 of the 5 most recently updated threads on the whole site are RWED.
I guess this is just an appeal: Can we please get back to talking about Firefly?
Thanks.
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what is RWED??
I looked it up, but I didn't see any threads on Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development (a canadian organization) so I assume that's not it.
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Real World Event Discussions
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Ahhhhh.....
Hmm. I see one thread related to other scifi, six feihua threads, and nine related to firefly or our BDHs. I don't seven see any on "real world events" so I'm kinda confused.
Not that I'm not saying you can't complain about anything you like, it's a free country :P lol.
Sadly, all those threads, and THIS is the only one I bother to post in? Wacky.
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RWED is its own forum. To keep it from cluttering up the main page, it shows up at the bottom, but if you check the top 100 threads, you can see the 'real world' threads in the order they've updated compared to everything else on the site.
And I agree, Griz. I've always thought it updated at a rather alarming rate compared to everything else, and that's been particulary true the last few days. When nothing else is moving, it is. I know the people there are fans, but they seem to spend the majority of their time on the site fighting about politics. It's very weird to me.
Of course, there are plenty of them who would say I'm weird, too.
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The problem may be more widespread than initially feared. Recently I noticed something similar during a thread in the other sci-fi forum. An RWED style debate sprung up about a popular TV series. The only things missing were links to wikipedia providing proof to back claims and insinuations of ad hominem attacks.
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Originally posted by singate:
The only things missing were links to wikipedia providing proof to back claims and insinuations of ad hominem attacks.
Yah, like that never happens in FF/S "discussions". I have personally been attacked more venomously in a FF/S "discussion" than any RWED that I've been involved in. And in no place have I seen quotes from FF/S, etc given in proper context. Don't make FF/S discussions seem like they are calm when they are regularly far from it. Go ahead and present a view that the majority doesn't hold to see what I mean.
But, as a comment to the original comment: You make more FF/S content, and it'll be discussed. Or do you honestly think that there's enough content to keep FF discussion going full tilt for 5 years and S discussion going for 2?
Seriously, there are people out there that don't have such an obsession with FF/S that they need to obscenely over-analyse every little character of text, etc over and over and over and... There are people out there that have lives beyond those 5 DVD's and it actually includes things that are related to this thing called real life. Politics being one of them.
FF/S brought them together so here they stay. They're even tucked away in there own little corner. So, what's the problem? People can and do move on. It happens all the time. Trust me.
Sorry to be rude about this, but I mean, come on!
Btw, RWED has not become more active. It's the FF/S discussion that has become less active. There's a big difference between the two.
But, as a suggestion, perhaps if the fans that wanted these discussions would be less passive and more active (i.e. making new content themselves e.g. fanfic, fanvids, fan made "shows", etc) then discussions wouldn't wane. This is actually one of the things that I've commented on several times before. People keep saying things like, "This would be a great game to mod into a FF/S game", etc. But, basically no-one actually does it. And when someone comes along that actually starts something, support is... thin.
In other words, stop talking so much and start actually doing something. Your move.
p.s. Yes, I've actually started stuff before. So, I'm not being a hypocrite. It just didn't work out. C'est la vie.
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Originally posted by Grizwald:
I don't know that there is anything that can be done about this, but RWED seems to be getting more and more and more active, to the point where, as I type this, 4 of the 5 most recently updated threads on the whole site are RWED.
I guess this is just an appeal: Can we please get back to talking about Firefly? Thanks
I don't understand your point here. There is one small area with RWED's out of all the dozens & dozens of areas & features that this wonderful site provides. FF Fans, beneath it all, are just real people, and real people have many varied interests. Even in the Main postings area, many of the threads are about other non-Firefly sci-fi shows ^ movies & people, or what's on the radio, and other things not specifically Firefly related. RWED gladiators frequently post in ALL the areas here, and I see many of my distinguished RWED regular participants creating threads of their own on many Firefly & Serenity topics in the general area.
If you're saying that you desire folks to increase their Firefly intensity level here, that's ok and fine with me too.
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Owwie, that was a bit rough there, Sigma.
Still, well said.
I know we don't agree on a lot, but you've definately got a point there.
Me, I am eagerly awaiting the Firefly MMO, I bet verse discussion will pick up pretty quick after that, if it's any good.
Here's for hoping,
-Frem
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Quote:I come here to talk to other FireFly fans, because I like talking to other FireFly fans. Unfortunately just about every topic that I'm interested in has either been talked to death, or is ignored by most whenever it comes up. I find ad nauseam topics on why "Wash really really really is alive, even though we watched him die on screen, because we really want him too be alive, and even though the Alliance was there to kill them I'm sure the Alliance did all in their power to save him" really rather boring. Its the same argument over and over again, sometimes with different players, sometimes not. That's why I don't get involved in them any more.
Originally posted by Grizwald:
I don't know that there is anything that can be done about this, but RWED seems to be getting more and more and more active, to the point where, as I type this, 4 of the 5 most recently updated threads on the whole site are RWED.
No one's stopping you from starting some FireFly discussions, I'm certainly not suggesting you shouldn't be allowed to discuss these topics if you want to. I can't see the point in posting pictures of each other over and over again, so I don't involve myself in those threads, I don't tell people to stop posting them and get on with talking about stuff I want to talk about.
Quote:Go on then, no one's stopping you. Come up with a topic I find interesting and I'll participate, don't and I won't. Please extend the same courtesy to myself and others.
I guess this is just an appeal: Can we please get back to talking about Firefly?
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