I never actually found any outlet for it, not in the least because I imagined people would be less interested in reading my stuff than having me read theirs, but if you're up for it start a...
I never actually found any outlet for it, not in the least because I imagined people would be less interested in reading my stuff than having me read theirs, but if you're up for it start a regular thread in ~creative and build a community from there.
We've talked about a ~games.tabletop here before and there was lots of interest. It's a little early for that (since the sub-group mechanics aren't fully cooked yet) but there are a lot of...
We've talked about a ~games.tabletop here before and there was lots of interest. It's a little early for that (since the sub-group mechanics aren't fully cooked yet) but there are a lot of interested people. The RPG and worldbuilding communities on reddit are some of my favorites. I can't wait until we have them here too.
What's currently stopping people from making regular threads with tabletop tags? That seems like a good way to show Deimos that a ~games.tabletop might be justified with actual numbers rather than...
What's currently stopping people from making regular threads with tabletop tags? That seems like a good way to show Deimos that a ~games.tabletop might be justified with actual numbers rather than asking for it in a thread.
Absolutely nothing: people are already doing this. And this is exactly the right way to demonstrate the need for future a split of ~games into ~games.video and ~games.tabletop.
What's currently stopping people from making regular threads with "tabletop" tags?
conlang is short for constructed language. there are dozens of historical conlangs (including esperanto--probably the most well known of any of them--the languages of J.R.R Tolkien, klingon, etc.)...
conlang is short for constructed language. there are dozens of historical conlangs (including esperanto--probably the most well known of any of them--the languages of J.R.R Tolkien, klingon, etc.) and in contemporary times there are fairly large communities of people who make them on places like reddit (/r/conlangs).
Links for the lazy: https://old.reddit.com/r/conlangs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_constructed_by_J._R._R._Tolkien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language...
p.s. I wrote a comment almost identical to yours, even mentioning Tolkien, Klingon and /r/conlangs too. You beat me by 30 seconds though so I deleted it. ;)
Oh sounds fun! You know something that I would find really cool? A challenge where someone posts a text in one of these languages and some sort of rosetta stone and people have to figure out...
Oh sounds fun! You know something that I would find really cool? A challenge where someone posts a text in one of these languages and some sort of rosetta stone and people have to figure out grammar and translate the text.
right here on both counts! i even have a couple of little wikis set up that i flesh out from time to time so hopefully sometime in the near future i will have something to actually share here that...
I wonder whether there are worldbuilders around. Conlangs also welcome.
right here on both counts! i even have a couple of little wikis set up that i flesh out from time to time so hopefully sometime in the near future i will have something to actually share here that people can comment on in some capacity.
I am definitely into conlanging, especially Klingon. (Holmey lu'oghlu'bogh vIparHa' 'ej tlhIngan Hol vIparHa'qu'.) Tildes look like a perfect place for serious conlang-related discussion without...
I am definitely into conlanging, especially Klingon.
(Holmey lu'oghlu'bogh vIparHa' 'ej tlhIngan Hol vIparHa'qu'.)
Tildes look like a perfect place for serious conlang-related discussion without look at my tattoo topics and the like.
Do I understand correctly that topics about conlangs only (as opposed to full conworlds) belong to ~humanities as of now?
While linguistics is certainly part of conlangs (to varying degrees depending on the conlang and its creator), which falls under ~humanities, I would think topics related to the process of...
While linguistics is certainly part of conlangs (to varying degrees depending on the conlang and its creator), which falls under ~humanities, I would think topics related to the process of creating conlangs would probably more accurately fall under ~creative, would they not?
i would think so yeah. there's probably a bit of nuance involved, but unless it's established languages like esperanto which have some native speakers or some particularly well fleshed out...
i would think so yeah. there's probably a bit of nuance involved, but unless it's established languages like esperanto which have some native speakers or some particularly well fleshed out languages like tolkien's or maybe even klingon, conlanging in general seems a lot more suited to ~creative than ~humanities.
You're right about how these things probably should divvy up, but we could decide to break the rules and just put all conlanging topics in one place for consistency and for ease of finding them.
You're right about how these things probably should divvy up, but we could decide to break the rules and just put all conlanging topics in one place for consistency and for ease of finding them.
Yeah, if there is enough users interested in a subject to keep a group dedicated to it active, even for a "niche" subject like conlangs, then there is really no harm in including it as a top-level...
Yeah, if there is enough users interested in a subject to keep a group dedicated to it active, even for a "niche" subject like conlangs, then there is really no harm in including it as a top-level group for now. However when there are hundreds of groups/subgroups that will quickly get untenable, IMO, so the hierarchy is most likely going to have to be restructure to be much more rigidly organized (perhaps even in a DAG-like tree structure), with aliases, disambiguation pages and all the other bells and whistles needed to keep it all logically arranged, easy/intuitive to navigate, facilitate the "bubble up" mechanic, and make group discovery easier for users.
I wasn't thinking of a top-level group for conlangs. I was thinking of something like ~humanities.linguistics.conlangs for all conlang-related activity, from creation of conlangs, through...
then there is really no harm in including it as a top-level group for now. However when there are hundreds of groups/subgroups that will quickly get untenable,
I wasn't thinking of a top-level group for conlangs. I was thinking of something like ~humanities.linguistics.conlangs for all conlang-related activity, from creation of conlangs, through discussion about conlangs, to usage of conlangs. Maybe the "conlang" tag in ~creative directs people there as well.
For now that is probably fine, yeah. But while tags and groups are similar they ultimately serve slightly different purposes. Right now while the site is small with a very limited number of...
For now that is probably fine, yeah. But while tags and groups are similar they ultimately serve slightly different purposes. Right now while the site is small with a very limited number of groups, everyone is being auto-subscribed to every group and the volume of content being submitted every day is not beyond the ability of most users to read all of it, there may not seem like a very noticeable difference between the two... but once there are hundreds of groups with a torrent of content being submitted and if/when the "bubble up" from subgroup to parent group mechanic and trust systems gets sorted out and implemented, then the distinction will be much more noticeable and important, IMO. But it basically boils down to tags being mostly for filtering content (and narrowing search results) within a group but groups/subgroups being places for people interested in that specific subject to congregate, interact with each other and slowly develop a culture around.
I'd be interested in sharing. I do it for a few settings in some of my writing and everything is tucked away across a few different Scrivener documents. I looked into conlangs a few years ago too...
I'd be interested in sharing. I do it for a few settings in some of my writing and everything is tucked away across a few different Scrivener documents. I looked into conlangs a few years ago too but I never really got into it as much as I wanted to.
I'd be delighted with a world-building community, particularly a shared universe storytelling project. There are some marvelous examples, like Medea: Harlan's World, George R.R. Martin's Joker...
I'd be delighted with a world-building community, particularly a shared universe storytelling project. There are some marvelous examples, like Medea: Harlan's World, George R.R. Martin's Joker anthologies, even leaving aside the Star Trek canon and various comic universes.
I never actually found any outlet for it, not in the least because I imagined people would be less interested in reading my stuff than having me read theirs, but if you're up for it start a regular thread in ~creative and build a community from there.
We've talked about a ~games.tabletop here before and there was lots of interest. It's a little early for that (since the sub-group mechanics aren't fully cooked yet) but there are a lot of interested people. The RPG and worldbuilding communities on reddit are some of my favorites. I can't wait until we have them here too.
What's currently stopping people from making regular threads with
tabletoptags? That seems like a good way to show Deimos that a ~games.tabletop might be justified with actual numbers rather than asking for it in a thread.Absolutely nothing: people are already doing this. And this is exactly the right way to demonstrate the need for future a split of ~games into ~games.video and ~games.tabletop.
What is a conlang? Also, what kind of questions/topics would arise in a worldbuilder community?
conlang is short for constructed language. there are dozens of historical conlangs (including esperanto--probably the most well known of any of them--the languages of J.R.R Tolkien, klingon, etc.) and in contemporary times there are fairly large communities of people who make them on places like reddit (/r/conlangs).
Links for the lazy:
https://old.reddit.com/r/conlangs/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_constructed_by_J._R._R._Tolkien
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
p.s. I wrote a comment almost identical to yours, even mentioning Tolkien, Klingon and /r/conlangs too. You beat me by 30 seconds though so I deleted it. ;)
Oh sounds fun! You know something that I would find really cool? A challenge where someone posts a text in one of these languages and some sort of rosetta stone and people have to figure out grammar and translate the text.
Well, we can do that.
right here on both counts! i even have a couple of little wikis set up that i flesh out from time to time so hopefully sometime in the near future i will have something to actually share here that people can comment on in some capacity.
I am definitely into conlanging, especially Klingon.
(Holmey lu'oghlu'bogh vIparHa' 'ej tlhIngan Hol vIparHa'qu'.)
Tildes look like a perfect place for serious conlang-related discussion without look at my tattoo topics and the like.
Do I understand correctly that topics about conlangs only (as opposed to full conworlds) belong to ~humanities as of now?
While linguistics is certainly part of conlangs (to varying degrees depending on the conlang and its creator), which falls under ~humanities, I would think topics related to the process of creating conlangs would probably more accurately fall under ~creative, would they not?
i would think so yeah. there's probably a bit of nuance involved, but unless it's established languages like esperanto which have some native speakers or some particularly well fleshed out languages like tolkien's or maybe even klingon, conlanging in general seems a lot more suited to ~creative than ~humanities.
You're right about how these things probably should divvy up, but we could decide to break the rules and just put all conlanging topics in one place for consistency and for ease of finding them.
Yeah, if there is enough users interested in a subject to keep a group dedicated to it active, even for a "niche" subject like conlangs, then there is really no harm in including it as a top-level group for now. However when there are hundreds of groups/subgroups that will quickly get untenable, IMO, so the hierarchy is most likely going to have to be restructure to be much more rigidly organized (perhaps even in a DAG-like tree structure), with aliases, disambiguation pages and all the other bells and whistles needed to keep it all logically arranged, easy/intuitive to navigate, facilitate the "bubble up" mechanic, and make group discovery easier for users.
I wasn't thinking of a top-level group for conlangs. I was thinking of something like ~humanities.linguistics.conlangs for all conlang-related activity, from creation of conlangs, through discussion about conlangs, to usage of conlangs. Maybe the "conlang" tag in ~creative directs people there as well.
I'd say this is what tags can add to topics - conlang under ~creative, with a linguistics tag.
For now that is probably fine, yeah. But while tags and groups are similar they ultimately serve slightly different purposes. Right now while the site is small with a very limited number of groups, everyone is being auto-subscribed to every group and the volume of content being submitted every day is not beyond the ability of most users to read all of it, there may not seem like a very noticeable difference between the two... but once there are hundreds of groups with a torrent of content being submitted and if/when the "bubble up" from subgroup to parent group mechanic and trust systems gets sorted out and implemented, then the distinction will be much more noticeable and important, IMO. But it basically boils down to tags being mostly for filtering content (and narrowing search results) within a group but groups/subgroups being places for people interested in that specific subject to congregate, interact with each other and slowly develop a culture around.
I'd be interested in sharing. I do it for a few settings in some of my writing and everything is tucked away across a few different Scrivener documents. I looked into conlangs a few years ago too but I never really got into it as much as I wanted to.
I'd be delighted with a world-building community, particularly a shared universe storytelling project. There are some marvelous examples, like Medea: Harlan's World, George R.R. Martin's Joker anthologies, even leaving aside the Star Trek canon and various comic universes.
I have a setting for my fantasy web serial but that's it.