I came up with an idea to make a "What PlaneShift is not" thread a couple weeks ago, so here it is. The idea here is to come up with a list of objective perceptions of what the game is not, so newer people can read it like an FAQ. Other people were discussing the same "PlaneShift is not ___" topic on the fan channel today, but most of the opinions were subjective and I think we can achieve higher quality and more meaningful results on the forum.
This is modeled off of similar community websites and open source projects that have a "What _____ is not" section as part of their FAQ or About pages.
Here are some rules to this thread:
- If you are adding a new entry to this thread, then your post must follow the pattern "PlaneShift is not _____" followed by a decent justification as a defense. Your justification should be more than one sentence or as long as it takes to defend your entry, and it shouldn't be any more than a couple of paragraphs.
- Commenting on entries is allowed, as long as your comments are MEANINGFUL. We don't care if you agree or disagree with an entry unless you can contribute a new opinion to the discussion. We are shooting for a thread of high quality; don't taint this thread by writing every other post on it, and no backseat modding either. Also, this thread is not for writing books.
- No nonsensical or subjective entries. Entries must be meaningful and objective, and entry content must be decent enough for people to want to read. "PlaneShift is not a complete game" is OK, "PlaneShift is not fun" is bad because we don't care what your opinion is and not everyone agrees with it.
- Juxtaposition is fine only if you can justify it by providing a rigorous and meaningful comparison. For example, "PlaneShift is not Darkfall", and explaining that it's not FFA PvP with looting, is fine.
- No ambiguous or vague entries; we don't want to confuse people who read this thread with double entendres. If it can be interpreted in more than one way, then be more specific. No astroturfing either. "PlaneShift is not open source" is bad because it is ambiguous and only a small and insignificant group of people would ever use the extreme definition. "PlaneShift is not open content" is better because it is more specific.
- For God sakes, don't post anything on here without reading the OP.
- If there are any good ones then we should consider moving them into the OP to make them easier to find.
I will start off with an easy one because I am in a hurry to get this thread started:
PlaneShift is not spelled with a lowercase s
Unless you are typing too fast.
