@yochaigal the list of blog posts I’m following has this disclaimer at the top:
some of these bloggers (especially early on) have shown themselves to be hurtful people, at least insofar as they are vocally sexist, racist, homophobic, and/or transphobic. I have included blog posts by these individuals to provide an accurate view of the play style’s historical development, but I disavow any harmful or destructive views expressed elsewhere by those individuals, speaking as a queer woman and a communist. So, you know. Caveat emptor
I know who some of those people are but clearly not all, given our interaction over on the latest post.
Can you suggest a way I can proceed with this project without causing problems for the RPG cauldron?
I’m not a fan of public lists. They only lead to problems. My suggestion is to just move on when someone points out a particular author is bad. It isn’t a big deal, I just assume everyone knows.
If I were that blogger I simply wouldn’t include them.
So would you suggest we stop the current discussion about Melan diagrams and move on to the next blog post? I would like to keep taking about dungeon design if possible.
The problem I have is that I wasn’t involved with the OSR blogosphere then and I have no idea who among the bloggers turned out to be problematic. I’d greatly appreciate it if somebody would clue me in, as I’d rather not spend time or money on people I can’t in good conscience support.
I think you can substitute the Alexandrians’ Jaquaysing the Dungeon (or whatever bullshit he decided to call it now) posts for the discussion of Melan’s diagrams without any loss of content.
I will keep this list of blog club posts up to date as the weeks pass. Yochai has kindly given me forum permissions to keep editing this post beyond the usual deadline.
I am going to be travelling throughout the month of February and won’t have much time to check in at the Cauldron. So would someone like to take over “running” the blog club in February?
All you need to do is post a new thread every Friday, following Marcia B’s list of links.
I have been doing a very minimal job recently, so if you have time to read the post and write something about it you will be doing a more thorough job than me!
I think this overview post of the Blog Book Club should be much more prominent and easier to find, since the Blog BooK Club is the most interacted project on this entire forum. Maybe have it pinned at the top of this thread? Use tags to find it easier? Or have a thread pinned with only this Overview post to the top of the Collaboration subforum? ^.^
I don’t know of a way of pinning it to the top of this thread. So I think I would have to create a new thread and copy the info over. That would require me to go back and edit the links in all the blog club posts to point to the new thread.
I’m willing to do that (and hopefully @Barnum would be willing to do it for the posts he created) but I will first wait and see if anyone has a suggestion involving less work.
I am not savvy to the ways of forums so I don’t have any useful suggestions at the moment but I am happy to edit / repost / do whatever is needed once we agree on a better system.
Maybe a mod could pin the new topic? We could post a request Site feedback and see what they say.
