Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161124005352/@comment-61022-20161129202745

The Many-Angled One wrote: Sorry but I have to disagree with you here. While I agree that in some cases we can deal with it differently, tagging like this (in this specific case) isn't unnecessary. You can't just classify that as "unnecessary" or "ugly" just because you don't like it (actually, you can, but... whatever).

I think it's unnecessary because it's not detailed enough. If we're putting continuity points in everything then having a character listed as appearing in the "present"/past/future doesn't cut it. Not only does it look ugly but people can't find the proper placement of all the appearances.

While you can't place the continuity points for the flashforwards (yet), you can do it for the Flashbacks. There are places in continuity where those events take place and you cannot tag multiple chronological points for one character without putting in multiple entries for them.

The way you suggested to tag it that is unnecessary, because: a) different from, doesn't follow two narratives in two different points in time;

Every flashback and forward are different narratives outside of the main story. So I'd disagree with that statement completely.

b) the flashbacks here are used to add up to the main story by shedding new light into some specific events that we already saw in the previous Ultimates series and in Civil War II; and

Which, as I said are different points of continuity. Someone should doing APN tags for those appearances, or at least putting in separate entries for those flashback/forward appearances so someone can go in and tag them accordingly later.

c) there's just only one page dedicated to show a glimpse of what's coming in the next issues of the series, giving it its own section separated from the others is just too exaggerated.

Is it? I'd give it about as much credence as giving character appearances to people who appear in the recap pages.

Also, it's not exaggerated. It's classifying the appearances by type.

About the problem of finding the page for this specific series, just search for Ultimates Squared and you'll find it.

Which completely misses the point of making it accessible to an average user. Searches need to be simple so that people who are not as savvy as you are can find these things.

Consider for the moment that the age range and education base for people visiting this site is varied and people don't necessary have the knowledge to know what a small an exponential 2 and a normal number 2.

Annabellrice said: I'm solidly with The Many-Angled One on this.

"I think it's ugly, so it doesn't need to be accurate." is a very bad precedent to seek to implement in my opinion.

Annnnd if that's your take away from my original post that I am striving for aesthetic over accuracy, then I think you really need to check the intricate detail I place into my edits.

This is not about being inaccurate. It's about displaying the information accurately in the best way possible.

We did not implement APNs just so we can plop them in whenever it's convenient. It's got to be a proper map from one point in a character's history to another. You 'cannot do that by cramming flashbacks/forwards/whatver into one single appearance.

People are going to want to know where the flashbacks come from and where the characters go from any point in history from a story. Since nobody seems to want to write issue summaries, how are viewers even going to know where flashbacks are happening?

That's the point I'm getting at.