User talk:Matvei Zolnerowich

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-- Sannse

In the interest of avoiding a wiki war on a two-man wiki less than a fortnight old, I've been thinking about making a few changes in the near future (my Internet time's limited to public access):

Thought I should let you know, since you have seniority, and wondering what your thoughts are.
 * Splitting the "Steered/Unsteered, Hard/Soft" page into two separate ones; they're related things, but separate enough to merit discussion independently. (On which note, how established is the "hard/soft" terminology? I'm a newcomer to AH.com, but the usual context I've heard "hard/soft" in was the skiffy one of plausibility rather than a history/world-building dichotomy.)
 * Lumping those pages, the Sliding Scale of Plausibility, and maybe the Narrative Tropes into a "Strunk and White's Tropes of Style" page. (The grand unifying theme is that they're not so much tropes as parameters of AH writing in general.)

-- Amedras 19:48, August 13, 2011 (UTC)

I'm just glad somebody has finally joined! :)


 * Very well.


 * I'll have to read it to really see. I've been trying to get the "infrastructure" up and running before we can get to cliches.

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