All right, I got it set up. You should watchlist it or something. - ☯•♫•© 19:37 Apr 8
I have a feeling there maybe loads of talking here, but also since it's only between the two of us, I think the best system may be to put a horizontal rule (which you will find as the second thing from the right in the edit bar thing above the text edit box thingy (feel free to completely disagree with me and edit this all to your liking)) in-between each of our comments. OK, so where do we start with this thingy? Any ideas? Also i pretty-ed it up, so it is a pleasure to look at (A little bit). Oh and watched. - 09:02 8 AprilSir FSt. (QotF BFF NotM) YTTETalk!Read!Sign!Whore!CMC!Pee!
Sweet. Okay. I'm thinking on starting it out with a Reasons To Fake Your Death section or something, followed by picking the place where you'd have the biggest following and reaction to your death, then pros and cons of modes of death (illness, sudden accident, etc.). Think there's anything I'm missing? Also, I suck at opening and closing articles, so that part might have to be your job. - ☯•♫•© 20:13 Apr 8
Sounds good, let me just clear this up (with a tiny changes):
- (Opening Para)
- Reasons To Fake Your Own Death
- Location, Location, Location (Snazzy! Or we could just call it "Picking the Place" - whatever)
- Method
- Dealing With Loved Ones (are we going for just an internet death here or faking your entire death using the internet...if we're just doing an internet death we could change this to "Dealing With Loved Ones That Discover" or something more elegant)
- (Possibly:A Disclaimer in tiny writing, saying like "we didn't/aren't make/making you fake your own death" etc.)
...wow that was a piece of organisation, surprisingly written by me...me, organised? What has the world come to...So, comments on above sections things etc... - 09:21 8 AprilSir FSt. (QotF BFF NotM) YTTETalk!Read!Sign!Whore!CMC!Pee!
Yeah, I'm mostly referring to faking your death to an internet community, not using it to fake your death. The Dealing With Loved Ones section sounds good, but we should make the general aim of that section how to tell them through some miscellaneous family member, because, y'know, SOMEBODY has to know your Livejournal password and break the news to your knitting community the next day. - ☯•♫•© 20:25 Apr 8
Ah, Ok, revised:
- (Opening Para)
- Reasons To Fake Your Own Death
- Location, Location, Location (Snazzy! Or we could just call it "Picking the Place" - whatever)
- Method
- Breaking The News (so this would be "how to tell them through some miscellaneous family member, because, y'know, SOMEBODY has to know your Livejournal password and break the news to your knitting community the next day." - as you so nicely put it)
- Troubleshooting (this could cover hiccups during the process possibly, such as maybe, someone going to this forum who knows you and going "wait a sec, I spoke to him on the phone on Saturday!")
- (Possibly:A Disclaimer in tiny writing, saying like "we didn't/aren't make/making you fake your own death" etc.)
...? - 09:24 8 AprilSir FSt. (QotF BFF NotM) YTTETalk!Read!Sign!Whore!CMC!Pee!
Good! I like it a lot. You've laid this out way better than I could have. Usually I just type until I run out of stuff to think, then go back and make it coherent. Oh, I love your section titles, by the way. - ☯•♫•© 20:33 Apr 8
Ok, good! That's what I usually do. If we're going for a VFH we should definitely lay this out carefully. I recommend (although this sounds maybe too much that we now attempt to outline the basic structure of each section as well as maybe listing a few lines, sentence(s) ideas...
- (Opening Para)
- First line could be something like: "Have you ever wandered what it would be like to fake your own death to your <insert funny online community here> community? Have you ever wandered if you'd get kicks from it?" maybe...
- Reasons To Fake Your Own Death
- Something funny along the lines of the community cyber-bullying you, for the kicks, you want to see what people really thought about you etc.
- Method <Moved, this is more important than the place, me thinks
- Possible Cluedo (OMG, there's no Cluedo page, must remember that!) related joke? Unfunny example: Yourself with the fish (erm that was the first thing that came to my head) in the forum.
- Location, Location, Location
- "If you're going to fake your own death then you need to start it in an appropriate place. Starting the rumour on a site only used by yourself and <insert funny list items here> isn't really going to help." Hmm...these lines haven't been miraculously funny so far, hmm...'
- Breaking The News
- (That is how to do it realistically)
- Troubleshooting
- Could pick a violent video game and then go for something like "Didn't know your granny was an ace at <violent video game>?" - not funny but could be inserted somewhere for the absurdity or whatever.
- Disclaimer
- There could be a warning here about: "You risk being rejected from your community if you botch the job, so don't botch it!"
Oh and there is possibility for lots of use of {{USERNAME}} template, depending on the style we chose for this article. - 09:50 8 AprilSir FSt. (QotF BFF NotM) YTTETalk!Read!Sign!Whore!CMC!Pee!
Guhhh. I hate {{USERNAME}}. If we use it, it should probably be sparingly.
Anyway, my ideas for lines, etc., listed in your layout format. We can combine away or whatnot when we get to the actual writing part. - ☯•♫•© 21:17 Apr 8
Ok, below I've put a the layout section thing for both of us to edit. Above I've put the sections in the article for the fun of it. Also, below, I'v added an image section, so if you think of any images you want I can do a bit of photochopping, or we can put it here or whatever. - 10:08 8 AprilSir FSt. (QotF BFF NotM) YTTETalk!Read!Sign!Whore!CMC!Pee!
Planning Layout Section Thing - No point continuously copying it back and forth, just edit it here...
- (Opening Para)
- I'm thinking of the paragraph being basically laid out like, "So, your life sucks. You go to the internet to start a new life. Your internet life sucks. You need attention. What can you do?" Of course, not in those words, but you get it. - Like it.
- Reasons To Fake Your Own Death
- Something funny along the lines of the community cyber-bullying you, for the kicks, you want to see what people really thought about you etc.
- (Got no issues with this.)
- Method
- Possible Cluedo (OMG, there's no Cluedo page, must remember that!) related joke? Unfunny example: Yourself with the fish (erm that was the first thing that came to my head) in the forum.
- I like the idea of using that joke. Except it'd have to be in like the PERFECT spot to be funny. We must focus on that. Also, isn't the game just called Clue? o_o - Ahh, that's it, Americanos call it "Clue", cause of the film! Here in the UK, it's "Cluedo".
Illnesses Sickness: (feel free to mention reasons for these sections, btw) (changed to "Sickness" because "the Ill bit looks like three "l"s)
- Pros: gain attention steadily, be told you're such a strong person, have people fall over themselves to praise you, have near death experiences frequently to pique interest
- Cons: research, time and effort in staging the progression of illness
- Suicide:
- Pros: built-in audience of emo/goth internet kids looking for somebody's suicide to cry over, depression is easy enough to stage and enact, most likely to get lol-able bad poems, could get the "strong person" and praising pros from Illness if you say your depression is caused by both your parents dyeing, or similar...
- Cons: possible hate from conservative lead section of community (conservative + web community, does that go together, hmm...)
- Accident:
- Pros: Easy, one-time execution (
no pun intended) with immediate results
- Cons: No prior sympathy, must spend time building yourself up as an excellent person beforehand, you will get no sympathy/e-tears/bad poems if you're just a random person who died in a random accident
- Murder
- Pros: Lots of sympathy, requires no time to be built up, shocking, possible lol-able poems (especially Haikus) or condolence notes
- Cons: After the first wave of sympathy you may get forgotten, possibly harder to make people believe, can't think of any more...
- Location, Location, Location
- "If you're going to fake your own death then you need to start it in an appropriate place. Starting the rumour on a site only used by yourself and <insert funny list items here> isn't really going to help."
- Let's take it further, and break it down into
- Number of users
- Number of crazy, teenaged and/or gullible users
- Ability to whore your ailing self out to several people (i.e. myspace has an advantage because random friend adding is more acceptable there and myspace bulletins are a good way to scream about your life from the internet rooftops)
- ...you get it. Can you think of any others?
- Breaking The News
- (That is how to do it realistically)
- Eh, we'll just type this one out. Simple enough. Younger dead person = mother signed in via saved password. Adult dead person = spouse. Perhaps provide example of how you'd tell the community they're dead. Perhaps provide example of how not to tell community.
- Troubleshooting
Could pick a violent video game and then go for something like "Didn't know your granny was an ace at <violent video game>?" - not funny but could be inserted somewhere for the absurdity or whatever.
- That one sort of went over my head. o_o - Agreed, well it didn't go over my head, but it wasn't very good, hence the going over your head bit
- Anyway, tell what to do if
- Someone asks why their family member is posting to the community rather than grieving (OMG, YOU DONT HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH THIS FORUM MEANT TO HER YOU GUYS. YOUR UNGREATFUL FOR THE LOVE SHE HAD 4 U ALL.)
- ...other stuff? help?
- Disclaimer
- There could be a warning here about: "You risk being rejected from your community if you botch the job, so don't botch it!"
- Yeah, and sort of turn it into a satirical spin on how the internet is REAL SERIOUS BUSINESS. You get what I mean or wha? - Yes.
Added a couple paragraphs here and there, will hopefully expand on them later. You can't call me a neglectful parent now, you bitch!
(Also, I edited your texty stuff up at the top a little bit -- I removed the Nobody cares references to avoid redundancy, because it's really, REALLY easy to want to use Nobody Cares in this article, hahah. If you don't like anything I did, just edit over it and discuss.) - ☯•♫•© 16:45 Apr 17
Made a few minor tweaks here and there. If you don't like anything I did, just edit over it and discuss (that should be our motto :-D ). - 05:54 17 AprilSir FSt. (QotF BFF NotM) YTTETalk!Read!Sign!Whore!CMC!Pee!
Images
Any images for the article can be put here, oh, we're being so organised!