It's not rules I'm in favour of, it's guidelines.
As mentioned in the other thread, Both QOTW and QOTWOT can often be confusing to the uninitiated. The seemingly random switch between plucking up the courage and sharing eachother's darkest and most intimate secrets and having a group-hug to telling tasteless and politically incorrect jokes can be dis-orienting.

One of the things I like about QOTW is it's anarchistic nature. What once started off as a means of filling up time on a radio-program has evolved by itself into a new social paradigm where we show off ourselves at our worst instead of at our best (sort of like a reverse Internet dating-agency). Due to the new-ness of it all, we just made up our own guidelines as we went along, and I find that it's mostly worked well (hence the anarchistic nature). This has has grown into something even the b3ta-admins never anticipated. I just think we need to write down these guidelines to help newcomers.

Personally, I think the only rule I'm in favour of should be "don't be a cunt".
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 20:28, Reply)