A Statement of Porpoise... and a request. Metachat was created as a place for chat and silliness and friendly banter... Very specifically, Metachat was created for indulging in precisely the sort of play that Metafilter was
not created for.
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So, I don't see it as being a place that can be described as "better" or "worse" than MeFi, because it's like saying that the refrigerator is better or worse than the stove: they are both in the kitchen, but the user is going to be very disappointed if he tries to bake cookies in the frig or make ice on the stove. They are different because they are meant to be different.
I mention this because I've seen some disparaging remarks about mecha that seem to me along the line of someone pointing and sneering at a person wearing a clown nose and saying "you look silly because your nose is big and round and red". In other words, "
Duh!"
But then I realize that if Metachat people are constantly making comparisons at MeFi, then other people are naturally going to start saying stuff like
OMFG, did you see that nose!!! Our noses are much smaller and better!!!!. People will probably continue to make comments like this anyway, but we don't need to be instigators.
So, let's not. It doesn't make sense, and we aren't in competition. At all. We don't want to recruit, we don't need to defend our turf, and if we are happy doing what we do here, that should be the alpha and omega. There's no reason to try to make enemies, and we have no point to prove.
