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[personal profile] acari: Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Tue, Apr. 14th, 2009, 11:49 pm
[personal profile] damned_colonial

Hey, there's something I don't understand, and I was wondering if you could clarify for me? I never read metafandom regularly on LJ so I hope this isn't something that's been covered often. If it is, just point me at the relevant FAQ :)

I thought metafandom linked to posts on LJ only (profile on LJ says: "This community is for linking to interesting discussions in fandom, any fandom, on LiveJournal.") I realised when you started up on DW and I started looking into it, that you also link to LJ-like sites with talkative fannish populations (IJ, DW, etc). But now looking at today's links, I see that more than half of them aren't LJ-ish posts at all, but are blog posts, and not primarily from what I'd consider fannish blogs (a publishing consultant, a science blog, a blog about managing people, and a feminist blog.)

So, I'm wondering what the boundaries are around "fandom" and "livejournal" when it comes to MF's scope?
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    • Wed, Apr. 15th, 2009, 04:21 am
    [personal profile] oula

    Here's the FAQ

    There isn't really an official clarification - and since there are seven of us, you could probably get seven different answers to that question. Here's mine: We've done the occasional Off-clone/fork linking before (racefail IIRC), and it is something we've discussed for a while, but had reservations about for several reasons. One we were worried about creating more work, two worried we'd break our automated delicious consolidator, and other worries I can't remember right now. Then two things happened at once, testing the delicious automation here of DW, and amazonfail. Whether it sticks or not probably depends on whether it becomes a hassle. I don't mind off-clone/fork links. I think there's a lot of great meta out there.
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      • Wed, Apr. 15th, 2009, 05:58 am
      [personal profile] damned_colonial

      Ah, right, the combination of testing the automation and amazonfail explains it, to some extent.

      For what it's worth, I'd rather it *didn't* stick. It's not like there's a shortage of fandom meta on LJ-like sites, and from my POV, amazonfail was only tangentially fannish. Links talking about how some of the affected authors = fannish, but not most of the discussion (including my post). But that's just my own opinion, and probably a minority one at that, so feel free to disregard.
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        • Wed, Apr. 15th, 2009, 07:05 am
        [personal profile] oula

        What I think will happen is that when there are pan-fandom issues, like racefail (and even there we mostly didn't need to link, because rydra_wong was doing such a great job of tagging everything) or amazonfail, we might link off-site just to keep the conversation coherent. But otherwise it will probably be a random link dropped on us from time to time.