The Title Fairy Dances with the Stars-lolz

[Adele]

Anix is teh hugs!

I'm curious as to whether he'll accept that sentiment because it's positive or reject it on principle...

[Adele]

nominate Fritzler for "Reluctant Vig"

[Adele]

self-nominating's a faux pas, IH. You just gotta wait and hope...

[Adele]

For Zindaras: Kitty!

[Adele]

On a completely unrelated note, what would people think about a List of Titles wiki page? It would contain a list of all assigned titles with some sort of short explanation for each.

This would require a lot of work, since there's a bunch of old titles that a. need to be found, and b. need to be explained by people who were there.

Fortunately, we do have the old Title Fairy threads as resources.

that would be the

shit

! Great, wonderful idea!

[Adele]

Renominate Mastermind Of Sin for DNFTO

[Adele]

Instead on putting a summary of explanations, I've started using direct quotations from nominations. They sound funnier.

Yes, but it makes me look like a tw*t.

in a funny way

.

[Adele]

That said, if somebody later requests BRAAAAINS!! for CES, I will be displeased.

CES could really do with brains though.

[Adele]

"Apparently On Edge"?

Something that makes a pun out of making "Edge" sound like the new designer drug.

hmm...

Excuse me, I have to go to my chem lab

[Adele]

For Adel: Chaotic Good?

Adel is a good troll.

I'm still trying o figure out what you meant by that... like I am a troll with a Good alignment, or I am effective at trolling... I can't tell.

[Adele]

Nominate Fritzler for

"Bitches."

I'm

categorically opposed

to curse words in titles. I think it would be a worthwhile unwritten title policy.

Soooooo... it's okay in thread titles and threads, but not in titles?

In... ter... est... ing.

Games are often, broadly speaking, pg-13. A parent may even allow an underage player to play onsite on that basis as long as they promise not to check out the murkier stuff (hey, parents can be dumb and credulous too). Mods of games

often

make a no-obscenity rule, and can (and will) edit posts that contain language that they consider inappropriate. They cannot control titles.

For the same reason, I'd have much bigger problems with an obscene pic in someone's av than in a GD thread with a NSFW warning.

It's about giving people the option to avoid that stuff if it really matters to them.

[Adele]

Look, it's one thing to say "if you don't wanna be exposed to foul language, it's up to you to avoid it, be warned people say all sorts in GD", But it's something else to say "suck it up, beeyotch" or define it as an unavoidable aspect of the site - at worst, potentially driving away good players (I'd almost say the fundamental mandate of this site is "bring players to the game, don't drive them away from it").

As to it being Fritz's title… well, on some level, it isn't. Everything on this site is ultimately mith's. This is his site, which he allows to primarily be community-led. Titles, especially, are community-chosen, not a personal choice. Point: MoS had to lobby to have DFFTO taken down. The community has chosen to consider the potential title-bearer's feelings on the matter as a concession. To consider the feelings of the more sensitive site-members (I'll say again, titles, like avs as far as I know, are not something you can avoid) is not a contradiction of that but an extension.

That line of argument doesn't work anyway. It's

your

penis, but walk around town with it out, and your apt to get in trouble with the law - whose job it is to protect people from harm and to set out context-dependent ground rules. Naked in private = your business.

Taking it around with you everywhere you go

= everyone's business.

Sometimes I think people try to define things as issues of freedom of speech (or other fundamental human rights), when it's more about consideration and showing a basic level of respect to your peers. It's one thing to behave like a dick individually, but giving someone a title is a community action, and people should expect more kindness of a community than of the individuals constituting it.

At the end of the day, I think "this person's title is marginally less funny than it could have been" is a smaller deal than "some people are likely to be (and could reasonably be) offended by this title, and the only way they can avoid it is avoiding the site"

[Adele]

Avatars, like signatures, can be turned off by the user.

Yeah, my bad. I think discretion's the better part of valour there, too, though - I'm visual and attach arguments, positions and scummyness to the av pic, not the name. I'd literally not be able to follow a game in which any significant number of players lacked avs (lack of an av is a major pet peeve and totally OT I'll go now sorry bye)

[Adele]

Titles based solely on a user name are very rare to be excepted. (There are exceptions, but I don't think this is a good exception.)

[grammarnazi]You want "accepted" as the first instance here, Thok.[/grammarnazi] Despite that, I agree with you in disagreeing with the NabNab suggestion. Aimee's is okay, but there's probably better out there.

If TSQ gets "Lighten up", it definitely needs the damnit.

If you spell it "Dammit", it's not a swear.

Picard says "Dammit" (Subtitles ayf). Picard wouldn't swear!

<3

[Adele]

Keep in mind that you've not been granted said title yet, and that your constant lobbying probably won't help your situation.

Yeah, I don't think we should reward lobbying, or requests for a particular coolness of title (not gangsta enough? Are you saying that you

are

"Gangsta"?). Of course people shouldn't be saddled with titles they dislike (in RL either), but you can't choose your own title; that's against the... um, thingie... so it should be "ooh yay" or "no thanks" not "nah, something more X pls"

i'm tired

[Adele]

I do not want my brother tainted by association

[Adele]

Hmm. I should probably get a title one of these days. Any ideas?

[Adele]

I know he's got one, but since he seems to be the primary target of those signs,

nominate Yorasian2 for: Everyone Agrees With Me.

[Adele]

Metatron

is the name of the angel who talked to Moses, Joseph, and company, right?

Gabriel

is most commonly referred to as the one who spoke to Joseph, and the virgin Mary, (unsure about Moses, but iirc, him too) at least according to most branches of Christianity & Islam... there is no mention of

Metatron

by name in either the Old Testament or the New Testament of the Holy Bible... he is mentioned in the Talmud, & the Hebrew book of 3 Enoch, at least that's what Wikipedia tells me... if you were to take a survey on which angel is considered the 'messenger of God', IMO, the answer w/ the most votes would probably be

Gabriel

... i'm basing that estimate solely on my perception of Christianity & Islam as the 2 most predominant religions in the world...

The Metatron is the voice of god. Haven't you ever seen Dogma?

Metatron is something the Catholic church refers to as the Voice of God. It's almost as popular as Buddy Jesus!

"Metatron" sounds like a Transformer.

[Adele]

oh that's right; my bad

My respect for Quagmire just went up a notch.

<3

[Adele]

Nominate mith for "The Legend".

I know he won't change, and I don't care. It's out there. You have just been assaulted with a Pune, or play on words.

[Adele]

Nominate myself for "The Legend".

[Adele]

I dunno, for some reason Adele as "The Legend" strikes me as funny.

Hey, I resent that! Or possibly, thank you.

[Adele]

Happy Flayday, birth!

[Adele]

Also, JDodge absolutely deserves Weighted Companion Cube. I mean, who

hasn't

had the itch to chuck him into an Aperture-Emergency-Intelligence-Incinerator from time to time?

For what it's worth, I have been pondering Ether or Adele for that title, even though neither of them is a Portal fanatic.

I don't actually know what Portal

is

, but <3 anyone who considers nomming me.

(I myself).

ed: Wikipedia was not my friend. M:tG?

[Adele]

lol

[Adele]

yeah, Flay pm'd me like the lovely he is

[Adele]

I assume we're somehow similar to the cube.

I just don't know how.

[Adele]

What joke?

Raises hand.

You're a joke?

You betta recognize

[Adele]

Nominate either of them for: "surprisingly wet, for fire"

[or something actually funny]

[Adele]

you know, in the uk, it's "Where's Wally?" [/trivia]

[Adele]

/agree, broadly speaking, but an oblique reference (cf. "flexible") can be superb.

[Adele]

Thok's suggestion is the best. I say "E's a crowd" for Adele.

I am not a crowd, I don't drop my H's, and I'm a girl. Why do you malign me so???

[Adele]

How about "E's are good"?

Chavtacular.

Not to be a downer, but I don't think the existance of Adel defines me or is particularly amusing. I don't see how it merits a title.

If you want to give

her

a title on the subject, I've no objection.

[Adele]

I'm linked to lots of people. No-one's ever suggested a title of "Seol Sista" for me (btw, that's how he pronounces his title, like "soul"). It's really not that big a deal.

[Adele]

lol. It has a certain je ne sais quoi, doesn't it?

[Adele]

It's more appropriately translated as "I don't know what" - which makes as much sense, if you think about is, as the phrase "the X factor".

[Adele]

current

colloquial French. Old sayings tend to keep their original form. Plenty of odd English phrases about; for example "the exception proves the rule" (ok, that's really an example of something else)

[Adele]

If only because that title's too long and inelegant.

[Adele]

it's true, at least.

[Adele]

OWNED

Yes, you were.

[Adele]

ed: I posted a diatribe against the attitude of religious people that religion should be protected for fear of hurting peoples' feelings here.

It was not appropriate to the Title Fairy Thread, so I removed it.

Many apologies for the bad placement of a valid argument

[Adele]

it was raining!

[Adele]

Eh, not that ubiquitously. Certainly not enough to make my hair damp in the five minute walk from the tube, with shelter half the time.

[Adele]

nominate "here long before Adel" for Adele

... just as an alternative.

Adele turned down "the e is mine" before, so I'm not sure if she'd take that one. Although there's probably no harm in asking.

am I the only one who hates that title, and doesn't think it's witty or fitting at all.

It is kind of fitting if not actually funny...

I mostly posted that hoping for a cute comment from her, mostly.

Sorry to disappoint .

Do people really see me as a big sister type? Aw, shucks, you guys!

[Adele]

Nominate "Banned" for Twito.

For posterity.

[Adele]

Nominate TSQ for "deleted - mith"

this

I second.

[Adele]

In the interest of actually getting a title (after quite a number of years here), I'll suggest "Forget me not". Or "oops". But I'd rather someone someone else nommed.

Who for?

[Adele]

That's a bad mneme

[Adele]

Lol. Aw hell! Second