[UA] Re: [UA] (OT)

[Nick Wedig]

>I'm willing to be pretty lax with these guidelines. Eric Berg just
>posted in defense of Ayn Rand with absolutely no UA reference, at all,
>anywhere in the message. It's that shit that makes me want to
>unsubscribe.

Some explanation of how to use Objectivism in your game swould likely have been warranted there, yes (perhaps the lunatic fringe thereof).

>There are lots of borderline cases, but I think a good rule of thumb is:
>if UA isn't mentioned _explicitly_ in your post, it should be marked
>(OT). 

I always wonder about mentioning something directly related to one related to part of the UA world, but where the connection should be clear by itself without mentioning it.  Consider the rather long discussion about dreams, which is directly tied to Oneiromancy, but we rarely mentioned it directly.  This thread eventually was called off-topic by someone, but it seemed to provide lots of information and ideas about scary things to do with dreams, so would still be useful for GMs using such things in their games.

>This means that if someone posts about the Nepal thing being a
>proxy ritual, then you respond and give some details about the killing
>that don't relate to its nature as a proxy ritual or otherwise mention
>its UA-relevance, you mark it (OT). 

The real problem is that someone might mention details that are obviously, to him, related to it being a proxy ritual, but other people might not recognize these details as such.  If he acted in good faith and was trying to supplement the idea of it being a proxy ritual, but was declared off-topic, that would be unfair.

>People who are interested in that
>thread will read it; it will be archived right next to the other thread;
>and those of us who get that kind of news elsewhere can filter it.

I tend to think this sort of thing is best left to the individual reader.  If you can't see any UA-relevance in a thread, stop reading it and delete all messages of that thread from your inbox.  Of course, a coinciding responsibility lies on the writers of posts to make UA relevance obvious and try to avoid off-topic posts (something I try and often fail to do).

Mr. Teapot
can turn one leg invisible

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