Thread:Aximillio/@comment-3400522-20130416143602/@comment-6042046-20130416200341

I did notice EB@wikidot's shift of editing style last year. They used to fully archive content like the wiki here. Now they record the titles and descriptions of cards and storylets exactly, but they don't record the entire result text; they leave out the success/rare success/failure flavor text but keep the rewards (gain/loss of items and such). It's not completely useless that way, but you could say it's a 50% drop in efficiency since half the text was removed.

No matter how you slice it, EB@wikidot and FL@wikia are dodging the rules. To be clear here, we're only able to dodge because Alexis allows us to dodge. He knows we exist. He knows what we do. He peeks through our windows in the dead of night...! This is the man who referred to the wikis point blank in the sunlight storylet of the Feast of the Exceptional Rose: ''At the corner of your vision, a Radical Factotum hisses, whips out a notebook, and desperately scribbles notes. He catches your eye. "For the Wicked Book," he offers. "Where we share knowledge."''

We're radical anarchists. :P

I'm sure Alexis is aware that his writing one polite letter asking us to cease & desist would stop us dead in our tracks. Why are we not lying like roadside vermin right now? He hasn't run us over, that's why. He swerves his copyright-fueled vehicle around us. Okay, I'll stop here; I can't keep writing this with a straight face.

Why did you have to go and ask, haha? This is a taboo question. Jeez, now we'll have to burn/edit out this conversation within 24 hours. You make for a lousy anarchist, dude. ;)

Anyhow, many of the players consider the wikis great resources. They don't take money away from FBG; they don't record fate-locked content. Yes, we do record descriptions of fate-locked items but you can view those on lots of mantelpieces; they're interesting teasers which might lead a player to buying fate-locked content if anything.

I'll relate a personal experience: At one point, part of the fate-locked Soul Trade storyline was posted on EB@wikidot. I read it and that clinched my decision to buy the story. I was wavering on whether to buy or not, and reading part of it convinced me that I would enjoy it. On the other hand, if I had read more of the Rubbery Murders and Long-Lost Daughter stories, I wouldn't have bought them. Not for 25 Fate, anyway. I think they're each worth 5-10 Fate with the current story. I hope FBG writes more content for them!