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July 28, 2004 Link to this post
The Bee Thing - Again
While I was out last night, a huge thread erupted on our forum, arguing about my choice yesterday to ban the use of the word 'bee' from forum posts. I've been accused of stifling speculation, of favoritism, and of limiting new fans from entering the Halo community (among other sins). In my defense, I'd like to say that I really do believe the ilovebees campaign is Halo 2-related, and that it comes from official sources... but I DON'T believe those sources are inside Bungie. And my biggest problem with the entire phenomenon (at least here at HBO) is that there is ZERO ORGANIZATION. The day this story broke, there were over 800 forum posts on the subject. If someone had filtered them for new and unique information, however, I bet there were fewer than 25... all the rest were simply restating finds that had already been found. (On Bungie.net, the signal-to-noise ratio was even worse; there were 5000 posts that first day or so, and only a tiny fraction contained new information.) Without organization, this puzzle is nothing more than an annoyance. There is some wonderful organization out there - at the NetninjaBeeWiki site, at the unfiction forums, and elsewhere - but NOT HERE. And THAT'S why I asked that discussion be taken elsewhere. It's likely that this puzzle will provide a ton of fodder for the Halo Story page, and that an after-the-fact analysis will show that it was hugely productive in building hype for Halo 2 - but for now, other, non-bee-related material is becoming harder and harder to process because of the roar, and I'm simply not capable of doing it all. (There's a great article on the subject, summing up my personal views pretty well, up over at Gamespot right now. Worth a read.) (Louis Wu 08:48:02 UTC)
