Title Fairy: Abuse of Mooglepower!

[ReaperCharlie]

I have stalked UT in real life, and he is neither fat nor sassy.

[Mr. Flay]

Oh look, JDodge is bent out of shape and argumentative. Nominate JDodge for

Accept it

.

Look, the way this title suggestion was brought to the community originally, sucked. Trying to reverse-engineer it into a scumchat reference is thin, at best. You may not like it, but Oman

has

been vested with a certain amount of discretionary power when it comes to Titles. He's been (much like his similarly-reviled predecessor) encouraging and discussing to what I consider a frankly ridiculous degree, considering the amount of abuse he gets for volunteering to do this.

[Untrod Tripod]

For the record, I find this discussion fucking ridiculous. There's no real difference between a title that refers to something I don't know about that happened on the board and a title that refers to something I don't know about that happened in scumchat. If you want to draw that line in the sand, go right ahead, but just be aware that you're making an arbitrary distinction about something really insignificant. What about Reck's title? Are you saying that GD threads are more "real" and "official" than scumchat, so it's kosher?

I have stalked UT in real life, and he is neither fat nor sassy.

I must not fear...fear is the mindkiller...

The point of the title should be to be able to associate it from something on site. Associating it with the site because people from the chat are playing a game outwith the site is stretching it a bit thin and the fact you won't be playing it as majorly in however long means that the title becomes quickly irrelevant.

I have absolutely no idea what 95% of the titles on this board mean. CLEARLY THE PROCESS WORKS.

Trying to reverse-engineer it into a scumchat reference is thin, at best.

Not at all what happened, but whatevs.

[gandalf5166]

I have stalked UT in real life, and he is neither fat nor sassy.

I must not fear...fear is the mindkiller...

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

[gandalf5166]

Just to give my opinion on the whole LoL thing: While it does share players with MS, I don't think it has anything to do with MS or the game of mafia. Thus, I don't see why it's relevant and should be made into a title. It would be like if Brandi came in with a nomination for Ythill based on something he did in real life and then said "OH BUT LOTS OF MS PPL LIVE IN PORTLAND".

[Faraday]

I'd not see a problem with that nom for Ythill if say socio/troll/came in and said OH YES IT'S PERFECT too. So I feel the same way about the UT nom. I've no problem with it at all.

[vezokpiraka]

Drench had a crush on Cayke?

Who is the girl? I think I'm having a crush too.

[Kublai Khan]

Nominate

the renaming of the word "titles" to "JDodges". Because obviously no one cares as much as he does about them.

Seriously though.. When I nominate a title and it gets shot down, I shrug my figurative shoulders and move on with my life.

When a title JDodge likes gets shot down, everything must suddenly get called into question. And if every existing titles doesn't conform to the same rules, then apparently whatever JD wants he must get.

"Fat and Sassy" is a dumb title that makes no sense outside some obscure flash-in-the-pan game. UT deserves better.

[ReaperCharlie]

2nd

JDodges

[Vi]

I find it amusing that a whiny argument over titles has erupted and I'm not in it.

"Fat and sassy" isn't particularly unlike UT's site presence, and it has been approved by the significant number of people for whom it would hold meaning. That's all.

What about Reck's title? Are you saying that GD threads are more "real" and "official" than scumchat, so it's kosher?

Actually, it's my understanding that that IS the policy.

[shaft.ed]

War huh God good y'all what is it good for? absolutely nothin

say it again

[shaft.ed]

I have stalked UT in real life, and he is neither fat nor sassy.

Nominate RC for

CreeperCharlie

you can have TLC as your theme song. Noone else seems to want that one

[Faraday]

I find it amusing that a whiny argument over titles has erupted and I'm not in it.

"Fat and sassy" isn't particularly unlike UT's site presence, and it has been approved by the significant number of people for whom it would hold meaning. That's all.

What about Reck's title? Are you saying that GD threads are more "real" and "official" than scumchat, so it's kosher?

Actually, yes.

I SEE YOU EDITING Vi.

[Vi]

War huh God good y'all what is it good for? absolutely nothin

say it again

all we are saying
is give war a chance

@Faraday: Yes I did. My post is better for it.

[Faraday]

I don't disagree

[Untrod Tripod]

I have stalked UT in real life, and he is neither fat nor sassy.

Nominate RC for

CreeperCharlie

you can have TLC as your theme song. Noone else seems to want that one

Second

[ReaperCharlie]

Haha. I've been called that before, multiple times.

[Oman]

JDodge you've progressed from "I'm not wrong- You're wrong! Everyone is wrong!" to "If I can't pick the teams I'm taking my ball and going home". And neither of them are flattering personalities. Read the first post, and read that line that's been in here for a long time prior to me. "[Oman is] the current TitleFairy and am the sole judge on who gets a title and what it shall be." That wasn't my idea, I replicated that from mith's posts. She's had that with other fairies. The idea behind it has always been a sole arbiter with discretionary power. The idea is that arbiter acts as a bridge between users and mith/site policy to ensure that while users are having fun and placated, mith's vision for the site is upheld. I don't just randomly make decisions based on my own whims, mate, if I did that I wouldn't be having this conversation because it's too much effort for something that doesn't affect me personally. Honestly, talk to mith, request the job. Come be title fairy and give everyone a title and roll on. Seriously, if mith is happy with you taking the spot with a "just give everyone a title, they're not that important" attitude then I'm all for it! But when mith and I talked as I took this job and wrote policy, he was pretty keen to have both a certain barrier test, and title fairy final approval.

If you personally shoot this down despite the support for it, I'm done with the title system, because it's quite obvious that the power you shouldn't have to begin with has gone to your head.

I've shot down a lot of other titles despite support for them, and I think we're better for it. I could dig through the last two title threads and pull out several titles that were personally shot down despite support as large as this (though maybe not as vocal), and that I am happy that I did. This isn't my jollies, mate, this is something I do to give back to the site admins and members. This isn't for me to giggle as I take away peoples happy titles, it's a secondary duty. The fact that you think that A) the title fairy shouldn't have any discretionary power, and B) that I'm waving mine around to get my rocks off makes you appear so detached from the title community that your rants lack context.

I don't know why you're taking it so personally, plenty of other people have gotten involved in this or similar without being a jerk about it. If you want to threaten and bully and try to push someone around, go elsewhere, I'm not standing for it.

[VP Baltar]

Haha. I've been called that before, multiple times.

...then the police got involved.

[JDodge]

Oh look, JDodge is bent out of shape and argumentative. Nominate JDodge for

Accept it

.

Look, the way this title suggestion was brought to the community originally, sucked. Trying to reverse-engineer it into a scumchat reference is thin, at best. You may not like it, but Oman

has

been vested with a certain amount of discretionary power when it comes to Titles. He's been (much like his similarly-reviled predecessor) encouraging and discussing to what I consider a frankly ridiculous degree, considering the amount of abuse he gets for volunteering to do this.

He gets abuse for volunteering to do this because he's taken his job to mean "czar" and not "arbiter". Thok's policies were always in line with making sure content was appropriate, not with making sure content meets some invisible litmus test.

Nominate

the renaming of the word "titles" to "JDodges". Because obviously no one cares as much as he does about them.

Seriously though.. When I nominate a title and it gets shot down, I shrug my figurative shoulders and move on with my life.

When a title JDodge likes gets shot down, everything must suddenly get called into question. And if every existing titles doesn't conform to the same rules, then apparently whatever JD wants he must get.

"Fat and Sassy" is a dumb title that makes no sense outside some obscure flash-in-the-pan game. UT deserves better.

1. Mafia is way more obscure, and likely way more flash-in-the-pan

2. UT has said he has no problem with it, your "he deserves better" argument is both subjective and doesn't hold water

3. This is not "something I like got shot down, ragerage", this is "something I like is being suppressed by a single person who should not have such power in that sense to begin with, the system is corrupt".

[Porochaz]

1. Its why the site been around for nine years.

2. He does deserve better but he is okay with it, but in the end whole argument is pointless.

3. "something is being shot down because regardless of what anyone has said thus far it has nothing to do with mafia and beyond pointing at scumchat and going but... but... doesn't really make it a good title" also "something is being shot down although the person your attacking has said he will listen to the reasons and hasn't shot it down yet"

[popsofctown]

i'd throw money down that league lasts longer than nine years. It's only obscure in some regions. I come across multitudes of people IRL who play the game, it's official population hasn't been announced but it's in the same league as WoW for sure.

[Ythan]

I have stalked UT in real life, and he is neither fat nor sassy.

I must not fear...fear is the mindkiller...

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

The thing about quotes is that one post is enough. We already know the rest.

I have stalked UT in real life, and he is neither fat nor sassy.

Nominate RC for

CreeperCharlie

you can have TLC as your theme song. Noone else seems to want that one

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=asstoot

nth

[Mr. Flay]

Unless there was some reason for lacking the ñ, I have fixed DGB's title to be proper Spanish.

[vezokpiraka]

LoL isn't as big as WoW.

I can say that in my country more people play Metin 2 than WoW. That doesn't mean that here more people play Metin 2 then WoW.

I don't like UT's title.