OTW doldrums
Jun. 14th, 2012 06:31 pmFirst, on the anime viewing front, I got caught up with all the current-run stuff on my plate except Kids on the Slope, which I've been neglecting horribly and might just let slide until later. I'm also starting to worry that Hyouka blew its wad on the first five episodes; they are indeed awesome, and I recommend them if you haven't seen them yet, but ep five played so much like a series finale with a wonderful satisfying climax and omission of ending theme and such that I actually had to go check that it wasn't a 5-ep series. Which it's not; it's scheduled for 21 eps, IIRC, but so far nothing has measured up since that first arc... Kuroko's Basketball continues to be awesome and a highlight of my week. Still delinquent about having promised myself Natsume Yuujinchou tho...
But the main topic, I've been meaning to post about it for awhile. I finally took the OTW news feed off of my dwircle and my (reading-only) twitter feed, because I admitted to myself that it was just vaguely depressing and alienating, and whether this is just my own issue doesn't make it any less true. But yeah, they were constantly posting news link roundups that had absolutely nothing to do with anything I cared about, but there was an insinuation that this was supposed to be about my proverbial home country, and so, like I said, just vaguely alienating.
And then this happens. Mleh.
I am still a tag wrangler, but my honeymoon period has long since ended and I'm pretty much phoning it in (to the point that this whole thing was announced on the Tag Wrangler e-mail list and I didn't notice); my fandoms are sleepy enough that maintaining them is frankly less effort than quitting. I am nothing of a coder (earned my white belt in HTML back in college and that's pretty much it), so I can't comment on that, but have been agreeing more and more with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot about how misconceived the whole thing is, despite tempting sparkly bits. I actually knew going in, I am not ideal tag-wrangler material; given my hermittish tendencies I will be the very last person to know fanon from a hole in the ground, I'm just relying on Google/Wiki/IMDB/etc. and noting the fact that nobody else was doing it. So before you even get to the code, there's the whole idea that for the tag wrangler system to work ideally, you have Ao3 which is open to every weird, tiny, obscure (and wonderful, don't get the Psychic Force fan wrong here) fandom under the sun --- hell, the un-(admittedly)-official sponsorship of Yuletide amounts to a recruitment drive for the world's most arcane fandoms --- plus of course the sprawling megafandoms in all their thriving, chaotic diversity, and you expect to recruit a volunteer expert on every one of these texts and their fandoms to den-mother the things? As my own case demonstrates, you can operate with far short of that ideal, but I still feel that there's an element of "get real" even on that level. And as others have pointed out, it seems rather like a waste of the volunteer experts even if you could find them.
So yeah, I'll still wrangle tags, and I still plan to keep my dues paid if only so I can vote and chip in on Legal, but the whole thing is really just leaving me cold at this point.
But the main topic, I've been meaning to post about it for awhile. I finally took the OTW news feed off of my dwircle and my (reading-only) twitter feed, because I admitted to myself that it was just vaguely depressing and alienating, and whether this is just my own issue doesn't make it any less true. But yeah, they were constantly posting news link roundups that had absolutely nothing to do with anything I cared about, but there was an insinuation that this was supposed to be about my proverbial home country, and so, like I said, just vaguely alienating.
And then this happens. Mleh.
I am still a tag wrangler, but my honeymoon period has long since ended and I'm pretty much phoning it in (to the point that this whole thing was announced on the Tag Wrangler e-mail list and I didn't notice); my fandoms are sleepy enough that maintaining them is frankly less effort than quitting. I am nothing of a coder (earned my white belt in HTML back in college and that's pretty much it), so I can't comment on that, but have been agreeing more and more with
branchandroot about how misconceived the whole thing is, despite tempting sparkly bits. I actually knew going in, I am not ideal tag-wrangler material; given my hermittish tendencies I will be the very last person to know fanon from a hole in the ground, I'm just relying on Google/Wiki/IMDB/etc. and noting the fact that nobody else was doing it. So before you even get to the code, there's the whole idea that for the tag wrangler system to work ideally, you have Ao3 which is open to every weird, tiny, obscure (and wonderful, don't get the Psychic Force fan wrong here) fandom under the sun --- hell, the un-(admittedly)-official sponsorship of Yuletide amounts to a recruitment drive for the world's most arcane fandoms --- plus of course the sprawling megafandoms in all their thriving, chaotic diversity, and you expect to recruit a volunteer expert on every one of these texts and their fandoms to den-mother the things? As my own case demonstrates, you can operate with far short of that ideal, but I still feel that there's an element of "get real" even on that level. And as others have pointed out, it seems rather like a waste of the volunteer experts even if you could find them.So yeah, I'll still wrangle tags, and I still plan to keep my dues paid if only so I can vote and chip in on Legal, but the whole thing is really just leaving me cold at this point.
