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red herrings
Dec. 23rd, 2011 01:42 pm(I kinda can't believe I even have to make this post and I am definitely not the right person to be doing it, but seriously?)
okay, look, I hate the newest LJ redesign as much as the rest of you, although due to the specific ways I use LJ (ie. almost entirely in small fandom communities & other people's personal blogs - I've rarely used my own personal LJ) I am less impacted by them than most fandom users. HOWEVER, the DW evangelism is getting grating. It's a site. It provides you with services in return for you providing it with a product. It will not be forever free from wank, technical issues or censorship and it would be naive to believe that it would even if.
Its admin is a human being who has spent an awfully long time in the LJ fandom limelight, which is to say that many of us know where the bodies are buried. If this is somehow shocking news to you and you therefore wish to examine some shallow graves, there's Yonmei's story about receiving sexual harassment and rape threats on LJ, this post about the more blatant hypocrisies of Nipplegate, and more recently there was the Mitchellwank declaration that fanon (or canon) creators should be able to tell you what to write which was relevant to me personally because it had so much in common with the (minor, but ngl it hurt) incident that raised my ire in the first place. If your desire to rehash wank is not sated by all that, google will be your friend. But the worst, most personal incidents that I am aware of are not things I can simply link to or even speak about. Life is like this; horrible things happen, and they happen more often around some people than others, and even on the internet our histories go largely unrecorded except perhaps in the jigsaw-puzzle of logs and links and stories. I am getting a little bit tired of people who expect the future to be a whole lot different.
okay, look, I hate the newest LJ redesign as much as the rest of you, although due to the specific ways I use LJ (ie. almost entirely in small fandom communities & other people's personal blogs - I've rarely used my own personal LJ) I am less impacted by them than most fandom users. HOWEVER, the DW evangelism is getting grating. It's a site. It provides you with services in return for you providing it with a product. It will not be forever free from wank, technical issues or censorship and it would be naive to believe that it would even if.
Its admin is a human being who has spent an awfully long time in the LJ fandom limelight, which is to say that many of us know where the bodies are buried. If this is somehow shocking news to you and you therefore wish to examine some shallow graves, there's Yonmei's story about receiving sexual harassment and rape threats on LJ, this post about the more blatant hypocrisies of Nipplegate, and more recently there was the Mitchellwank declaration that fanon (or canon) creators should be able to tell you what to write which was relevant to me personally because it had so much in common with the (minor, but ngl it hurt) incident that raised my ire in the first place. If your desire to rehash wank is not sated by all that, google will be your friend. But the worst, most personal incidents that I am aware of are not things I can simply link to or even speak about. Life is like this; horrible things happen, and they happen more often around some people than others, and even on the internet our histories go largely unrecorded except perhaps in the jigsaw-puzzle of logs and links and stories. I am getting a little bit tired of people who expect the future to be a whole lot different.