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Today I finished my viewing of Babylon 5. I'll add my upvote and
recommend it to anyone who's heard of it but not yet watched it. I'm
still hoping for action on the DVD front.
Having seen reference to it many times, and seeing it C!'ed twice
this evening, I finally visited donfreenut's writeup in Butterfinger McFlurry.
If you haven't read it yet, I would not recommend that you do so (and I'm
not trying to dictate your choices). Let me just tell you that
it is virtually nothing but profanity from beginning to end, with a nutrient
list thrown in the middle.
I made a comment in the chatterbox that I regretted that this kind
of writing makes a name for itself on E2. (At the time of writing, it has 17 C!'s.)
This was met with comments from various people along the lines of
"C-Dawg's in a bad mood, maybe he needs a
Butterfinger McFlurry". (That
was not anybody's comment, just the
gestalt.) And that was followed
by a comment from an E2 god,
Dude, it's factual.
Like that's an excuse for it. And, as I then mentioned in the chatterbox
(using plenty of vulgar language, though I can't match the mastery of it
illustrated in that writeup), that
factual node doesn't even
get around to mentioning what a McFlurry
is (essentially, ice
cream with chunks of candy in it -- though I can't be sure since I've never
had one and was not enlightened by that writeup.)
Well, at least that got me borged finally, so now I know a bit about that
state, which I wasn't able to learn a week or two ago when I was asking
about it in the chatterbox, just from curiosity. In case you're curious:
- You don't get a message telling you that you've been borged (of course,
there is the general message in the chatterbox)
- You don't get a message telling you that you're no longer borged
- Unfortunately, I didn't attempt to submit a comment while I was in EDB's
belly, so I can't report what happens then.
I know that when people rant like this about E2 shortcomings, the behavior
they decry may be from only a few, but I find it disappointing that several
people in the catbox (humorously, perhaps) suggested that I shouldn't take
issue with such writing. (One noder voiced his agreement with my frustration.) And while I'm glad it has a significantly negative
reputation (my downvote put it at -37), I'm very disappointed that it has 125
upvotes and has attained an iconic position in our community. This writeup, and
its reception among parts of E2, doesn't sound to me like we're
raising the bar.