I have no problem with the archive, in fact I find it quite entertaining in a mindless sort of way.
Everyone who has a post in the archive made that post of their own free will. So if others want to slate them and take the piss, then they can't really complain, since they're the one who chose to share their story online (ONLINE).

I agree that the point of QOTW should be to entertain, so if I don't like a particular story, or find it entertaining, then I skip clicking I like this. If Amorous Badger wants to have his own archive of posts he believes to be fail, then so be it. Hell I've contributed to it with a few stories myself. The fact that Rob has put it in the newsletter...does it really hurt anyone? He's cited AB as a /boarder instead of a /talker which I'd imagine has to hurt a little, since there's no real validation for him there.

I also love the fact that he's listed Kaol as a contributor of other people's fail and then included one of his stories.

Edit: Ooh I got a bat as default :)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 12:31, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I hear you, but...
it's basically just a cliquey little /talk in-joke that is now endorsed by the command centre on account of most of them spending a lot of time on /talk. It's being touted as some kind of b3ta public service when in actual fact, it's a carefully-picked selection of posts designed to undermine certain people, aimed at an audience whose usual contribution to the site is one-line posts about their lunch.

If it's such a good idea, why not make a /fail board that covers all the other boards on the site. Alongside 'I like this' there could be a 'This post fails' link. That way it could be up to everyone to decide what is approved posting behaviour or not instead of the dictatorship of shame it currently represents, with AB having sole editorial control over it.

Ultimately, I think this kind of ridicule reinforces cliques and board divisions and serves to drive people away from b3ta instead of encouraging new users or continued posting. I just don't see how that can be a good thing, even when certain posters might be shit. That's what 'ignore' is there for. Tar and feathers, heads on spikes, stockades, call it what you will. It's not why I signed up to b3ta.
( chart cat has an itch, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 13:11, Reply)

But that's just it. It's a /talk injoke thing which people can choose to pay attention to or just ignore it.
You don't even have to click on ignore to do it. I feel no shame for being included in the archive. Conversely I also feel no great pride either because b3ta isn't representative of real life and what people are actually like - with a few exceptions of course.

I think you should gaz Rob with your suggestions as I'd welcome a fail board or a fail button next to I like this and ignore. I don't have as much time to spend on here as I did in the summer, so a fail board would be handy to see what the current mood on here is without having to read lots of daytime threads.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 13:30, Reply)

Agreed
I've added a suggestion to the Bugs and Features page for them to ignore :-)
( chart cat has an itch, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 13:36, Reply)

b3ta isn't representative of real life...
except that it's full of interesting, clever, funny, boring, stupid, ignorant, friendly, witty, clueless, outrageous and/or entertaining people/twats/mongs, whom we can befriend, like, ignore, dislike or hate as we choose.
Also, not everyone will like/dislike the same people.
Also there are cliques everywhere: this is natural.
I like the FAIL archive. It's a nice antidote to the crawly-bum-lick that is the 'best of' pages.
( thealternativefact, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 13:46, Reply)

In principle
I agree and I'd support an 'I don't like this' button to provide precisely that. I just don't think it should be run by one person with a clear anti-QOTW agenda and an obvious dislike of certain people.
( chart cat has an itch, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 13:57, Reply)

I like QOTw at his best.
And it's worst offers an unbelieving horrified fascination for me.

I'm not quite sure where you're getting the idea that I've got an agenda about it.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 18:15, Reply)

It's funny you should say that.
Badgerboy covers all of those descriptions, except for the positive ones. He obviously has far too much time on his hands. Far better he put that time to good and productive use, like smearing his cock with dog food and locking himself in a room with a rabid Doberman that hasn't eaten for a week.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 31 Oct 2009, 14:02, Reply)

Sexual fetishes was last week

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 14:15, Reply)

Yeah, but..you're a cunt.

( WHARRGARBL, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 13:36, Reply)

That's a horrible thing to say about me.

( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Sun 1 Nov 2009, 15:35, Reply)

That's because it's a 'worst of'.
There's already a 'best of'.

They're called 'the best of' page.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 18:07, Reply)