[ SECRET POST #3133 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3133 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Guild]


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03.
[Harvest Moon: (More) Friends of Mineral Town]


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04.
[Gump, from Legend]


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05.
(Agent Carter)


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06.
[Jeeves and Wooster]


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07.
[Lupin III]


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08.
[Courtney Love & Kurt Cobain]


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09.
(SPN)


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10.
[Kasumi Goto, Mass Effect]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 057 secrets from Secret Submission Post #448.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the bit about stepping on the troll-calling, I think that will make a difference in fostering some community cohesiveness and ending the anon hate. Thank you.

I respectfully disagree on the Friday secrets not being the wank ones. They may not intentionally be so, but they have a greater chance of being just for the sheer value of having either challenging or spoileriffic content. It would be nice to boost the chance for those of us who can only participate on weekends having something to really provoke discussion.

And on that note, I would like to apologise for having my first post seem so confrontational. It is just that it is frustrating not being able to participate in the active discussion phase of the weekday posts and then these last two nights to have been the weakest of the secrets, again. It just seems to be every weekend they are a bit bland and I miss out, so I was frustrated. I just think that shifting the posts that have a higher chance of being discussion worthy to the weekends would be good for those who always miss out during the week. Again, sorry for being so confrontational.

[case]

No problem, no offense taken!

I do get where you're coming from, I'm just not sure of a way to resolve it (and I genuinely don't think front loading spoilers is the answer, for other reasons too - more people are here on weekends and avoiding spoilers is that much harder). Plus I don't know which secrets are going to be wanky - sometimes one secret that mention a topic passes by without any notice, and another that mentions the same one explodes. A lot depends on who's around that that day and what their opinions are.

Case in point, someone stating they definitely believe Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain could explode in wank. It might also not. It's definitely a strong opinion, just one that (presumably?) doesn't interest you. Even the top/bottom wank is a classic one that has been wanked about before but again (presumably?) doesn't interest you. How am I supposed to decide this, and by whose scale, and how do I know you'll like it?

ETA: Maybe some kind of middle ground? I don't want to cherry-pick for weekends, but if stuff like "I ship this" comes up, I can shuffle it back in for later, since I don't think people would mind (1-2 out of ~60 is a lot less than 1-2 out of ~20). It won't necessarily mean the weekends end up with the wanky secrets, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. I'm not sure if you are completely getting my point, but I don't see much point trying to belabour it. I think any effort might help though, so thank you for shifting the I ship it and the obscure fandoms back out to midweek.

[case]

For the record, obscure fandoms didn't enter into the equation until you put them in just now (?), but that's another thing I'd hesitate to judge. Mostly because if we went with "only fandoms I KNOW are big" you'd just get MCU Saturday.

I'll keep the time difference thing in mind, though!

[(Anonymous)]

And Star Trek, Stargate, DCU... actually, no keep the DCU to the weekdays oh god keep it away :) but you know it doesn't take a pop culture connoisseur to know see that some are more widely known that others. Just toss a couple of the biggies our way, please.

[dethtoll]

Just because you don't like the DCU doesn't mean it's not a huge fandom. You don't get to make demands that huge fandoms get more coverage at a time more convenient to you BUT NOT THAT ONE.

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, I think they were joking.

[dethtoll]

Possibly, but given the weird sense of entitlement OP seems to have I wouldn't put it past them to be serious.

[(Anonymous)]

The smiley would have given it away to most folks.

[dethtoll]

I distrust smilies generally. Seen too many people use them in really passive-aggressive manners.

[(Anonymous)]

*tips fedora*

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, today's secrets have Supernatural, Mass Effect and Agent Carter (aka MCU), as well as Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love, people who might not have a huge fandom but plenty of people know.

That's plenty of large fandoms per one post, I feel.

[(Anonymous)]

But they're not ANON'S fandoms, don't you know. So they don't count.

[(Anonymous)]

But what counts as the "weakest of the secrets" is completely subjective. You're asking him to just know somehow which secrets are going to cause discussion, and, on top of that, which secrets are going to interest YOU personally.