Talk:Hufflepuff

Why

I get that this is somehow a part of tumblr, but could one of you oh so edgy tumblr trolls please to be explaining this connection in the article? Otherwise it just looks like a faggy Harry Potter page (which it will be no matter what), and it's like: who gives a shit? --Barrabas 06:15, 17 February 2013 (EST)

I dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯ - Mr.Jonzz 06:20, 17 February 2013 (EST)

Wonderful. The point of the article shouldn't be to make me google something. All I'm suggesting is a section explaining this crap. --Barrabas 07:00, 17 February 2013 (EST)

Weeeeeeeelll... As someone who follows Potterheads on Twitter, although I'm not really a fan, this stuff is considered really important in the construction of online personas and roleplaying. People choose a house, such as Hufflepuff, and then base all their behaviour around it. It doesn't strictly fall within the boundaries of the books, and I suppose there is so many niggly little details that combining all four houses into a single page would be madness. Then again, this is ED, and the goal is to be informative and lulzy, not to catalogue every single minor detail of a fandom. Objectively speaking, the page has a lot of merit if it pokes fun at aspects of being a Hufflepuff, however poking fun at pretending to live in the Harry Potter universe would be best kept on another page, since if we ended up with a page for each house, there'd be a crapload of duplicated content.--Ambient Malice 07:10, 17 February 2013 (EST)

See, I never doubted there was an internet connection to this, just that it's being adequately explained in the article itself. Just a section along the lines of "Hufflepuffs OTI" with a few bits about these people "identifying" with the house OTI, and tumblr particularly, I suppose. The community itself needs some explaining, is what I'm getting it, and not just a troll rehash of the portrayal of the house in the books. I'm not arguing for the legitimacy of the article, just it's lack of explanation as to why/how this is an internet thing, and not just a book thing. Yeah, I dunno how deep anybody wants to go into the circles of hell where Harry Potter fans live (much less on tumblr), so I'm rather ambivalent on whether or not each house should get a page. I don't know that much about the fandom to make a decision as to whether or not the Ravenclaw fags are as big of a "thing" as the Hufflepuffs, who obviously stand out by virtue of being a bunch of losers. --Barrabas 07:39, 17 February 2013 (EST)

Write it then... - Mr.Jonzz 07:44, 17 February 2013 (EST)

Perhaps you missed the part about the circles of hell. If I knew anything about this crap, or actually came into any sort of contact with these jamokes, I wouldn't be bitching about how it isn't mentioned in the article. It can stay the way it is, for all I care, this is merely suggestion from an outside observer who doesn't spelunk the pits of tumblr, and therefore found the internet connection in this article to be somewhat vague. In the future I won't do opiates and play with wiki's at the same time.--Barrabas 08:07, 17 February 2013 (EST)

kk, I will say though that you don't necessarily need to have in-depth knowledge about a subject to write about it; I wrote a article about a film I've never even seen... or wish to, LOL. - Mr.Jonzz 08:17, 17 February 2013 (EST)