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WCDT Strips 3516 to 3520 (3rd to 7th July 2017)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Jul 2017, 00:00 ---I comprehend and appreciate what you are saying.
I just wonder if you could put on your official moderator hats and answer the question to the best of your understanding of what Jeph does or does not want posted here.
Here it is again.
--- Quote from: MrNumbers ---So what I'm getting from this, then, is it's not that you guys have a problem with shipping, conceptually -- at least, not when it's written as a romantic piece instead of as an erotica piece -- you guys just have a problem in that most of the time it's done superficially or badly.
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Officialness, on!
Global Moderator Comment To the extent we understand what Jeph does and doesn't want, it boils down to "don't be creepy", probably with a chaser of "respect my intellectual property". That is inherently subjective and resistant to concrete explicit rule-making. Our decision making is inevitably going to be case by case. See also Method's good clear summary: if it's canon, it's exploring the characters, if not, then it's hijacking them. The more grounded it is in the evidence of the comic and the less explicit it is, the better. Wrong: Marigold/Hannelore. Right: Dora/Tai anytime after the "butterflies" strip. Infinitely debatable: Faye and Bubbles. That falls lamentably short of the clear line you asked for but I hope it helps.
Tova:
Thank you, IICIH. I can't speak for MrNumbers of course, but I found that useful. If I do decide to participate in a discussion in, say, human/AI relationships in the comic, I'll feel happier having that guidance.
pwhodges:
Today's comic (3524) makes the point that friendship is not necessarily romantic or sexual, and that jumping too quickly to the conclusion that it is can quickly get one out of line with the characters' own canon reactions. I'm inclined to take it as a gentle warning from Jeph to be careful when shipping.
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Jul 2017, 23:03 ---Thank you, IICIH. I can't speak for MrNumbers of course, but I found that useful. If I do decide to participate in a discussion in, say, human/AI relationships in the comic, I'll feel happier having that guidance.
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Sorry, yes, should jump back in; I've been watching, I just stopped replying because I was really satisfied with a lot of the answers here (Especially MoM's. Love you, MoM) and didn't really feel the need to reply because of it.
But yeah, no, I've been following along and nodding my head pretty hard at the resolution of this. Like I said, I want to understand the spirit of the rules, not just the letter of them, and this has been extremely helpful in that regard.
Tova:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 12 Jul 2017, 23:16 ---Today's comic (3524) makes the point that friendship is not necessarily romantic or sexual, and that jumping too quickly to the conclusion that it is can quickly get one out of line with the characters' own canon reactions. I'm inclined to take it as a gentle warning from Jeph to be careful when shipping.
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I think that my current averse reaction to shipping stems from my time at university, when two of my friends developed a close friendship but were mutually uninterested in dating each other. Many people assumed either that they were secretly dating or soon would be dating. It annoyed them, and their annoyance rubbed off on me, I guess. A close friendship is an incredibly valuable thing, and I do think that shipping can devalue it. I have only a small number of what I would call close friendships, and they are priceless to me. I'd like to see more discussion of the nature of friendships and fewer mindless portmanteau name posts.
My 2 coppers.
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