[Brazelton] The [Brazelton] tag.
- Thread starter PatrThom
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I think I am missing some context.
Some people are annoyed that there are too many "brazelton" threads for obscure nobodies, and want to combine them into a Brazelton thread. Others have joined in with various stances.
I think we can all agree that clearer titles would b e helpful. A joke's okay, but maybe, as a rule, at least add the name in parentheses or something.
Some feel everybody should be free to post a Brazelton about anyone or anything.
Some feel nobody deserves a separate thread, and perhaps not even a post at all.
Most seem somewhat in the middle; perhaps a thread for all the "small" ones, and separate threads for "important" people. The obvious problem is how you determine who's important.
Personally, I don't see the problem with "unknown" Brazeltons. Not about your neighbour's cousin, perhaps, but I have learned about people I'd forgotten all about, or didn't know who they were while enjoying their work, and such, so I think there's value in a Brazelton for even fairly unknown (especially "outside certain circles") people. I could see a general thread for people who you know will only get 3 or 4 replies, but I don't think we should enforce it too hard - leave someone to decide how important they thought someone was. Of course, we've done that before, and the thread faded into obscurity because, well, not enough people die in the famous-enough-to-want-to-mention-it-but-not-famous-enough-to-give-them-a-thread category.
I think we can all agree that clearer titles would b e helpful. A joke's okay, but maybe, as a rule, at least add the name in parentheses or something.
Some feel everybody should be free to post a Brazelton about anyone or anything.
Some feel nobody deserves a separate thread, and perhaps not even a post at all.
Most seem somewhat in the middle; perhaps a thread for all the "small" ones, and separate threads for "important" people. The obvious problem is how you determine who's important.
Personally, I don't see the problem with "unknown" Brazeltons. Not about your neighbour's cousin, perhaps, but I have learned about people I'd forgotten all about, or didn't know who they were while enjoying their work, and such, so I think there's value in a Brazelton for even fairly unknown (especially "outside certain circles") people. I could see a general thread for people who you know will only get 3 or 4 replies, but I don't think we should enforce it too hard - leave someone to decide how important they thought someone was. Of course, we've done that before, and the thread faded into obscurity because, well, not enough people die in the famous-enough-to-want-to-mention-it-but-not-famous-enough-to-give-them-a-thread category.
I understand some people feel it's important to acknowledge the passing of a favorite (insert occupation) who had some kind of influence in their lives. I'd like to see it kept to one thread, maybe a sticky in the Media section. If that does work for the majority, then title the threads so we clearly know who died and why we might know them. The cleverly titled threads don't always make that connection.
GasBandit
Staff member
The Brazleton tag should stay. But I also agree that the title of Brazleton tags should explicitly say who died and optionally why it matters (occupation, director of X, creator of Y, etc). However I think this is a standard we can enforce solely through public shaming and peer pressure without needing to make anything "official" or mod-enforced. Sort of like how a very vocal minority (of which I was a part) snarled and hissed the Awesome Videos thread into spoilering the videos, back when that actually affected thread load times (it doesn't any more because spoilers work differently now, so it's gone back to nonspoilered).
omg, are we seriously so starved for controversy that we gotta argue about the brazelton tag?
You can also click the little upward-pointing arrow next to "Bones said:" in the OP quoted block to get to that thread.
I got the feeling that some people want all the Brazeltons combined into a single thread so they may simply ignore that thread to avoid the Brazeltons in toto.
--Patrick
That might be theme specific? I don't see it on my tablet and don't remember it on the browser.
GasBandit
Staff member
You know, at first I felt the same as you guys, but then it occurred to me if somebody didn't say something, it might be the end of the Brazleton tag, and if you ask me, that's too important a part of our forum's memetic culture to do away with.
One person. One loud person.
All I ask is for clear topic titles if we're gonna use the Brazelton tag.
GasBandit
Staff member
Eh, I saw more than one person raise issues with the tag's use. So I just went on record that I don't like the idea of either doing away with the tag, or limiting it to a single thread or subforum. Frankly I've never been a fan of subforums to begin with - it adds one more layer of obfuscation to thread participation.
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, there were several... if you count "Soccer vs Football" arguments...
Nope.
But I do kinda expect that any optional themes wouldn't actually lose functionality compared to the default. I mean, it's...the default.
--Patrick
