Dance of the Title Fairy: ORCA's Greatest Hits

[SleepyKrew]

I disagree. It's stupid and forced.

[kdowns]

I disagree. It's stupid and forced.

[Oman]

Okay let's start with the rulings, for all those people that just want answers:

Om of the Nom: SpamWow!

No.

Gold Star

I like it, user rejected

Killerjester: Target Practice

I like this. I do want to hear more on it though.

Kdowns: Goddamnit, Kdowns

I don't

like

the doubleup of the name, but I don't think its a dealbreaker. I like the title idea a lot. If Kdowns approved/denied, I missed it. Mate?

KublaiKhan: Lord of the (Golden) Hoard

Much better than what he's carrying now. Not as much discussion on it as there needs to be. The "whore" variants are just terrible.

Pidgey: Angry Birds

I reeeeeally like this. This is a good, snippy, concise, pop-cultury title that I love.

UN's bunch of suggestions

Nothing really memorable in any of them. Appreciate the effort though.

Izakthegoomba: Mish Mash titles

I like Mishion Imashable enough. Again, need more on this one across the board.


So there have been a few things here about people contributing to discussion about their own titles. The fact is that I wholly support people getting involved, but there is an indistinct line between discussing and campaigning, and Om definitely stepped over that line. I don't want to talk too much on his specific case (I'll get to that later), but I do want it to be very clear that users discussing their titles are definitely welcome and should not be seen to have a negative impact on the process. I think the difference is between being part of the process, and being the process. Remember that Titles are still a "gift" bestowed by the community. Getting to pick your own title shouldn't be the goal, because then people are just letting you play with your toys, not actually showing what you mean to them. Getting your own title is just saying what YOU mean to the community, which is...well it's pretty lame.

In Om's case...well zoraster really nailed it for me: "Right. he rejected it. he just has to understand that the choice he had was Gold Star or Mafia Scum, not Gold Star or something else." Om doesn't really understand that if a title is the community saying "Nice work, bro, here is how we see you", he is saying "No, that's not how you see me. You all see me like this, don't you?! DON'T YOU!?!" The best example is the "potato" comment where everyone else said "You are literally the only person that refers to you as a potato."

Kdowns and the name issue. Well, like I said, I don't enjoy the doubleup of the name, but fuck it, it's part of the joke. I like it. In terms of Flay's hesitation: "Which is not an absolute bar to a title obviously, but gives me extra pause when the shtick is being mostly propagated by people other than the proposed recipient." Actually, having people OTHER than the recipient propagate it makes it even better for me. It's a community joke, it's the people saying "this is funny, you are fun". If it was Kdown's walkaround joke I think it would be a lot more tired.

Older titles. Yes I understand the idea of precedence, but the title fairy policy wasn't designed to be all inclusive or as a ruleset. It's much more about guidance for how we press forward. Titles are a self-moderating thing, because they're about the community. If the community wants titles to be X, then they should gradually move towards X. The big takeaway is that the rules aren't designed to stifle titles, but to guide them (Which were drawn from our community discussions).

Overall, there has been a lot of good discussion lately. The latest cleanup didn't delete NEARLY as many as I used to.

[izakthegoomba]

I don't like the "LOL MISH MASH" titles for me, but Mishion InMashable is one of the better ones. I'd still rather wait for something more memorable/specific, though.

[Xalxe]

InMashable doesn't roll off the tongue like I'd like in a title, personally. There are/will be better options for izak.

[zoraster]

Mishion Imashable is good. Wish there was a p in the second word somehow, but I think it works as is.
I like the simpler "Goddammit" for Kdowns, but I'm afraid that comes across as kdowns being grumpy or something. So Goddammit, kdowns works.

Can someone explain to me the whole whore=KK thing?

[animorpherv1]

InMashable doesn't roll off the tongue like I'd like in a title, personally. There are/will be better options for izak.

That's because there's no n in the word.

[esuriospiritus]

yay, oman likes goddamnit, kdowns :3

actually scratch what I said pre-edit if anyone saw that, just "goddamnit" is slightly better imo <.<

[saulres]

I know it has his name in it, but I can't resist (or come up with a better way of doing this):

For izakthegoomba:

Izak taking a bath

[animorpherv1]

huh?

[Kcdaspot]

oh i get it...

"Mish Mash, Izak taking a bath... "

[Robocopter87]

Can't tell if its an inside joke or a play on words but I don't see anything with the words so I'm guessing its an inside joke.

[Kcdaspot]

Omg look up "splish splash" by little richard you Horribly uneducated about music person

[quadz08]

It is an awful awful awful suggestion with no actual bearing on anything, basically

[Cheery Dog]

I believe it would be a play on words. (well lyrics)
I don't feel the bit kcdaspot just added to it (although it did possibly identify for me where it was coming from) fits with the tune, which makes it not that good a title.

[Robocopter87]

Omg look up "splish splash" by little richard you Horribly uneducated about music person

You ninjaed me, I was just too lazy to PEDIT it.

[saulres]

Actually it does fit the tune exactly, which is why I needed to get it out of my head

[Cheery Dog]

splish splash sounds like it has more syllables than mish mash.
the izak taking a bath part does fit fine though.

and you've put the song into my head by bringing it up.

[Mr. Flay]

It is an awful awful awful suggestion with no actual bearing on anything, basically

[saulres]

It is an awful awful awful suggestion with no actual bearing on anything, basically

[SleepyKrew]

It's a reference to a reference and that's usually bad.

[kdowns]

I approved of the title nomination for me already

[UberNinja]

Do you like

Goddammit

or

Goddammit, kdowns

better?

[UberNinja]

or perhaps

GODDAMMIT KDOWNS

... it IS in a smaller font...

[izakthegoomba]

I know it has his name in it, but I can't resist (or come up with a better way of doing this):

For izakthegoomba:

Izak taking a bath

Dafuq. No.