thread: 2005-12-03 : Closing GNS and RPG Theory is Good
On 2005-12-12, Steve Marsh (Ethesis) wrote:
Posting to old threads makes the history befuddled? Ah well, the version of the board I saw had time stamps. True, it isn't a properly threaded Lotus Notes database, but it works fairly well.
But seriously, unless you have parent and daughter threads, you do have solidified threads creating solidified wisdom. I didn't see that, though I did see a lot of repeating.
Initial "canon" thread.
Follow-up threads (rarely seen).
New posters revisiting subject, send to solidified "canon" thread.
No evolution of the solidified concept.
I stand by my conclusion that the result was a need to break free and that closing the comments seems like the only good choice.
This makes SRM go "so, the effect was to create a canon, even if that was not the intent."
A functional solidified canon is the same, from a pragmatic approach, as one intended to be one. I'm not accusing anyone of impure or wrongful behavoir or intent (whatever that means).
This makes TC go "Sorta..."
I think mainly it is more of a data base than a cannon. It's a pile of research that will eventually be sifted and organized for consumption.
