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November 30th, 2007
05:37 pm
General Fandom Meta
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angiepen: Plagiarism for $$ - It looks like the fanfic plagiarists are taking it up to the next level. elisa_rolle reviews romantic fiction in her journal and recently got some comments which indicate that one of the books she's reviewed was originally posted as Star Trek slashfic. -
- fairestcat: On Fandom as Female Space - "primarily" does not mean "exclusively". "Primarily" is a just a matter of numbers, most slash fans are female, most of the early slash fans were as well. But I have no desire to be part of a community that is "exclusively" for women only. -
- wistfuljane: The etymology of the term: bandom. - obviously, the term Bandom is a mashup of band and fandom and therefore, could and probably should use to refer to general band fandom as a whole, but its usage have always seem to be specific and I don't know. -
- rachelmanija: A User's Guide to PTSD, Part I: What I Did In The War - Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a flashback? I can tell you. (It does not typically involve acting out the entire trauma in real time, complete with dialogue and screaming. Vomiting is also not essential, nor even, as far as I know, like -
- rachelmanija: A User's Guide to PTSD, Part II: What Does A Flashback Feel Like? - There is nothing quite like the realization that you have apparently been sleepwalking for months and months. -
- rachelmanija: A User's Guide to PTSD, Part III: I Don't Have To Do That Any More - I am still angry at the woman whom I confided in, and who proceeded to tell me a bunch of scare stories about friends of hers who had gone on Prozac, lost their creativity, and turned into zombies. -
- winterlive: [ with a capital G ] - the vast majority of this corner of fandom are very shy people - we are, overwhelmingly, smart girls with social issues. we fall in line, it's what we do. we like to agree with people, support them and make them feel good about themselves -
Livejournal Policy Issues
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lj_biz: New Settings & Flagging Tools - At LiveJournal, we recognize that there is some content that may be fine for adults, but not for kids. [...]LiveJournal wants to prevent minors from seeing adult content in a way that does not interfere with the experience of users who are 18 and over. -
- penknife: Warning: warnings. - The adult content warnings overriding existing lj-cuts is the most irritating part of this, to me, because it makes it much harder to give specific content warnings -- I don't want someone to click through an adult content warning only to be surprised -
- lasergirl69: Flagging - if this policy is strictly voluntary[..]I see no problem with it. If, however, users are expected to flag their own posts, and to watchdog other users, well that will set in motion a whole lot of behaviour I find, frankly, a litte creepy and untrustworthy -
- lottelita: The sky is not falling, and the porn is not disappearing - SixApart is trying to brand LJ as a journaling and social networking service for tweens and teens. T[hey] spend money online through their parents. Most parents want to believe their kids are "protected" from porn. -
- stewardess: This Post Contains Explicit Adult Ranting - Until you genuinely verify member ages, 6A, you can take your fake "protect the children" stance and stick it up your over-18 behind. For fuck's sake, sell LJ to Microsoft, already. For the sake of the children! -
- sivullinen: i haven't had to lie about my age for four years but i still remember i did itI'm just curious how everyone feels about the new flagging thing. Results are viewable to none so feel free to answer honestly :)
- heidi8: A Day on the Internet: Early Morning Edition - given that it's relatively easy to talk one's friends into raising a hue and cry[...]this is going to be usable for legitimate reasons, but it is also another way of taking a grudge over something to a new level, and that's making me uncomfortable -
- witchqueen: Not impressed so much - go to your settings page and scroll all the way to the bottom to adjust your adult content search results, or you may wonder why it is you can never find that fucking hot new fandom porn community whose name you can't quite remember. -
- fandom_me: All right. I have spent several hours reading the 23 pages of comments - to figure out what was going on with adult/explicit flags.[...]but I think I've managed to finally wrap my brain around it, and thought I'd go ahead and gather all the information in one place, just in case there's anyone out there as confused as I was. -
- the_shoshanna: think of the < strike >children< /strike > - I do not intend to flag my journal as "Adult," because in this context "Adult" is a code word implying "dangerous, tawdry, potentially harmful to children," and I believe that people old enough to read and attend to the things I write about are old enough -
- femmequixotic: I'm late. As usual. - If Barnes and Noble can sell BDSM to teenagers, I don't particularly see why I have to tuck away my (let's face it) incredibly vanilla Snape/Draco and Pete/Patrick. -
- killabeez: annoying LJ tags shortcut links - here are some quickie links to fix things if you are getting the annoying "adult content" links everywhere on your friends page and want them to go away (presumably because you can read and make decisions for yourself): -
- p_zeitgeist: another Tiresome PSA - The latest round of changes from LJ/6A includes new limits on the number of tags a journal can have. I'll let someone with a better understanding of the problem speak to this one (am snagging this with permission from a locked journal): -
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p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com: Friday, November 30, 2007