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I don't know... letting people like me blow off steam without wrecking someone else's work (even if the part I'm annoyed it is someone else wrecking the work) seems like a pretty good reason to me.
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Ah, so <em>that's</em> where we disagree. I think that blowing off steam at someone else's expense never helps.
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<ul><li>I'm not familiar with the "Mr. Black" character that you use in several of your examples. I've seen a few episodes that referenced him (Usually in connection with Sharon), but I don't have enough of a grasp on the character to think about using him in an unrelated thread. I gather that he's a pretty stereotypical villain, though.
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What you just wrote, I think, demonstrates one of the pitfalls of a gripe session. You could write a perfectly good story where this isn't true. Would you write an angry letter to Cartoon Network complaining that there's just no way Superman could possibly keep his secret identity by putting on a pair of glasses?
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The episode you name was probably an oversight, but it is not a plot hole. You could take it and run with it in several interesting directions. This particular gripe is unjustified, and a vigilante thread-killing would be even more so.
By the way, Mr. Black is indeed a villain from the Addventure. He was in Adama's character index last I looked, but IIRC he first showed up as an evil businessman who did various unethical things to Sharon on her first day on the job, which is what brought him to mind.
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I think it's a good idea. Personally, I'd vote to leave the existing BEAddVenture intact and still working - there's some good shit in there, after all, and some ripe threads waiting for someone to develop them - alongside the new one. And I think that most of the suggestions made (adding new choices after the fact, allowing for author editing with limits, and so on) are good ideas. The only idea I don't agree with is the "Comments" section on each chapter. In places that I've seen things like that implemented, they often turn into rolling flamefests, even when useful commentary is offered.
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Gripe session threads on the Plume are no different, except that fewer people will read them and they're more likely to happen behind the author's back, giving him no chance to defend himself.
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If the majority of the regulars (or even a single Admin) wants me to shut the hell up, I'll do that. But I think that I can be a valuable voice here.
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Don't worry. No one will order you to shut the Hell up. I'm giving you some friendly advice: constructive criticism is more valuable than gripes.