Thread:Ged Ladd/@comment-26235098-20150710075858/@comment-26366029-20150720123655

Thanks for both of your recent messages, Catinthedark.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry about the "assembly line aspect" to the wiki moderation.

Most of us who have been hanging around the web and its predecessor networks for decades did not expect people spontaneously and voluntarily to organise themselves into social orders that resemble hierarchical work structures, but there you go. Allow a thousand flowers to bloom and you might still end up with a jungle. There's an essay on the social anthropology of all this in here somewhere. Are you sure this is wiki all unofficial/voluntary and not a Kingdom? You seem very protective of King's commercial and reputational position.

Anyway, from a practical point of view, I am delighted that sub editors will crawl along behind me and tidy up my writing. In the real world I have to pay people to do that; but then in the real world I get paid for my writing!

I have had a look through your edits and think I know what you are driving at.

I feel a bit badly that you wrote to me long before I wrote up the current episode; as I;m sure you now appreciate I generated strategy pieces for this episode (and perhaps some earlier ones) after you had written to me but before I knew that you had done so.

I spotted that I hadn't written up 1083 at all, so I have today had a go at that one, hopefully in an appropriate style.

I also noticed that no-one had yet edited away my misdemenours in 1078, 1079 and 1080, so I have had a go at tidying those three up. Each one I found slightly problematic fpr different reasons, as I think that alluding to difficulty and (in one case) a temptation to waste jelly fish boosters are quite important strategic points. Anyway, you can see how I handled them in edit mode. Please let me know if I am barking up the right or wrong tree...or just barking.

There are probably still some errant pieces from earlier episodes, but I'll leave those to the army of little helpers to tidy up in the fullness of time.

Let's see how I get on with future episodes within the constraints of the house style. Frankly, if I find it too constraining I might quit. Or start writing some really wild stuff to see what happens and perhaps formulate that essay on the social anthropology of this kind of wiki!

Seriously, I appreciate you taking the time to write to me personally and to offer such positive guidance in an appropriate spirit. With thanks and very best wishes.