Focus for Pocus
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:08 pm
My recent brief experience as a goddess in other threads taught me how uncool it can be to have everybody looking at you all the time, and expecting great things. It just isn't a good thing, can you imagine? I just couldn't take it, and so I resigned, on the very first day. The "expectations of the faithful" thing got old really fast, and so that's why I resigned my honorary position as "goddess".
But, you know what? There are people who can't do the "resign from the expectations of the faithful" thing. People like Pocus. Everybody is looking to him for answers, poor guy. So what, if he was the "lead developer" part of the team that made the coolest strategic simulation ever. That doesn't mean that we should pester him, all the time!
But we have to, don't we. It's both because we love the game, and because Pocusis the one who both knows, and understands.
It is Pocus, who has omniscent understanding.
It is Pocus, whose words inevitably lead to enlightenment, as incomprehensible as they might be for Acolytes.
It is Pocus, who has already forgotten more about AACW than you can ever hope to know.
You know its all true, don't you.
My problem was that while I was thinking of this concept of "It's a hassle to be Pocus" thing, I was annoyed because it kinda interrupted my train of thought about the next question that I wanted to ask Pocus. (I was pretty close to figuring it out, too.) So I was definitely annoyed, when my "Cool Pocus Question" got derailed by the "It's a hassle to be Pocus" thoughts. So I began thinking, and sweet little me came up with what at least seems like a good idea. So here it is.
What if we had one place where Pocus could… focus? A thread where people could post specific questions to Pocus, and when he had time, he could check it out, and answer the ones which hadn't already been answered by the community. It seems to me like this would also be cool, because Pocus would have a place to correct common misconceptions. Misconceptions shared by even highly experienced forumites. (Think, "Artillery Frontage", if you need an example.) Instead of fifty different threads with "Pocus" as the search thingy, it would be fifty different pages that you could scroll through.
Look at deeper implications here, for a second, ok? Among them: people who didn't know to come to the "AACW Pocus Focus" thread would most likely be asking fundamental questions that could easily be answered by the community of "Regulars". Meanwhile (pay attention here, this is the important part) Pocus would have more time to spend on developing cool games, if there was a thread that was kind of a sub-wiki, for forum "Pocus" questions that couldn't be answered at the Wiki. See…? Instead of answering a question that he'd answered 50 times already in "sunken threads", forumites could help him by posting links to posts within the same thread where the question was already answered! No research needed.
Or something like that, anyway.
So, friends, what do you think?
Regards,
Havely
PS: Some killjoy out there is going to grumble about the necessity of context for understanding stuff. Fine! Go ahead and include a link to go to the thread, if you want to; just make sure that you include a "return" thread, there, so you-know-who can come back to the "focus". If you want to.
But, you know what? There are people who can't do the "resign from the expectations of the faithful" thing. People like Pocus. Everybody is looking to him for answers, poor guy. So what, if he was the "lead developer" part of the team that made the coolest strategic simulation ever. That doesn't mean that we should pester him, all the time!
But we have to, don't we. It's both because we love the game, and because Pocusis the one who both knows, and understands.
It is Pocus, who has omniscent understanding.
It is Pocus, whose words inevitably lead to enlightenment, as incomprehensible as they might be for Acolytes.
It is Pocus, who has already forgotten more about AACW than you can ever hope to know.
You know its all true, don't you.
My problem was that while I was thinking of this concept of "It's a hassle to be Pocus" thing, I was annoyed because it kinda interrupted my train of thought about the next question that I wanted to ask Pocus. (I was pretty close to figuring it out, too.) So I was definitely annoyed, when my "Cool Pocus Question" got derailed by the "It's a hassle to be Pocus" thoughts. So I began thinking, and sweet little me came up with what at least seems like a good idea. So here it is.
What if we had one place where Pocus could… focus? A thread where people could post specific questions to Pocus, and when he had time, he could check it out, and answer the ones which hadn't already been answered by the community. It seems to me like this would also be cool, because Pocus would have a place to correct common misconceptions. Misconceptions shared by even highly experienced forumites. (Think, "Artillery Frontage", if you need an example.) Instead of fifty different threads with "Pocus" as the search thingy, it would be fifty different pages that you could scroll through.
Look at deeper implications here, for a second, ok? Among them: people who didn't know to come to the "AACW Pocus Focus" thread would most likely be asking fundamental questions that could easily be answered by the community of "Regulars". Meanwhile (pay attention here, this is the important part) Pocus would have more time to spend on developing cool games, if there was a thread that was kind of a sub-wiki, for forum "Pocus" questions that couldn't be answered at the Wiki. See…? Instead of answering a question that he'd answered 50 times already in "sunken threads", forumites could help him by posting links to posts within the same thread where the question was already answered! No research needed.
Or something like that, anyway.
So, friends, what do you think?
Regards,
Havely
PS: Some killjoy out there is going to grumble about the necessity of context for understanding stuff. Fine! Go ahead and include a link to go to the thread, if you want to; just make sure that you include a "return" thread, there, so you-know-who can come back to the "focus". If you want to.
apy:
what a thread 
, with USA and CSA Flags and a orchestre plays the sound and dooya leads it 
(Not married yet, if you are interested. 
