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Fri, Dec. 25th, 2009, 07:24 pm

[personal profile] phoebe_zeitgeist: Friday, December 25, 2009


  • scratchingpost1: Thoughts on writing - Now, I think my methods are changing. I really think a major reason is that at this time last year I had a great idea for a story, but I never had time to sit down and write. So I started just taking notes in my head. -
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  • mieronna: Archive of our own - It always seemed to me that fanart was somewhat outside the mainstream of the fandom. Certainly liked and welcomed (in most cases) and it never lacked for squee - but still always an afterthought. -
    (tags: archiving ao3 fanart)

  • ithiliana: Fandom Discoures, Cycles, Communities, and More - But no matter what context the "golden age" argument appears in (Golden Age: "It used to be so much better back when...."), I doubt it. My hackles go up. The idea that there was some golden age of fandom meta that was ruined by X (in this case, according to some, X being social justice posts) just blows. -
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  • ithiliana: By the Numbers, Part I, or, Golden Age, What Golden Age? - I'm an English prof, not a statistician (but I do know that correlation is not causation), and I thought, well, has anybody even looked at the numbers? And even if they are posting less stuff or less stuff people want to read, I noticed that it soon becomes this conspiracy theory (those evil evil mods, or those cliqueish mods, or those fossilized mods), instead of people thinking, well everybody is busy, and why don't I volunteer to help out if I like meta so much. -
    (tags: meta statistics)

  • ithiliana: Numbers Part 2: Topics - But if white people are perceiving a flood/outpouring/drowning out of their "self reflective fandom centered whites only" meta--welllllll....it may be linked to the same sort of perception issue. -
    (tags: meta statistics)

  • [personal profile] sqbr: The Oppressor as hero - The Kyriarchy says that white straight able-bodied upper/middle class men are natural leaders and better than everyone at everything. So having a story where such a character joins a group of non-white/GLBT/disabled/lower class etc characters and immediately proves himself better than them all at everything and their natural leader, not to mention having their POV the only one worth seeing the story through..is not so anti-oppressive a message in my book. -
    (tags: race)

Sat, Dec. 26th, 2009, 07:45 am
[personal profile] erinptah

http://sailorptah.dreamwidth.org/113840.html <-- it has comments now :)
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    • Sat, Dec. 26th, 2009, 07:43 pm
    [personal profile] phoebe_zeitgeist

    I'm glad you mentioned the thing about comments, because I knew I'd seen someone who'd reported being told a post wasn't linked because there were no comments on it, and I couldn't remember where I'd seen that or who'd mentioned it. But I'd puzzled over it a little, because it's never been our policy to decline a link because there were no comments yet.

    And after thinking about it for long enough to forget where I'd seen the issue raised, I realized that there was a way that this could have come about by sheer misunderstanding (by which I don't mean your misunderstanding). Because what we do have -- have always had -- is a policy against linking a post where the OP has either disabled or restricted commenting access. If a compiler glanced over a post and thought that commenting had been disabled or restricted, that would have been reason not to link. (Every so often we make a mistake on this one, one way or the other; it's always particularly embarrassing when we put up something where commenting isn't available and have to go in later and take down the link.)

    -- And now, putting me in just as embarrassing a position, I have to say that in general, we also don't link to things that are more than a few days old. This one is a policy that not only dates from before I was on the team, but was one of the reasons I joined in the first place: one of the original mods found a post I would have loved to have metafandomed some months after I'd written it, and mentioned spontaneously that she wished she'd seen it in time to link it. I suggested, naturally enough, that she go ahead and link it, along with related meta posts by others, now that she'd found it -- it wasn't as if the issue had an expiration date. Whereupon she told me no, couldn't be done now, the comm didn't stretch the linking time window by more than a week and a half or so, tops.

    Given the circumstances here, I'm inclined to toss the question out to my fellow compilers on this one post. But if you don't see the link go up, the fact that it's a post from August will be the reason.

    -- You know, I'm beginning to think I should do a personal-journal post on metafandom linking as I was taught it/understand it, just to clarify some of this stuff. And, of course, to allow people to throw virtual rotten eggs at me directly to the extent warranted.
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      • Sat, Dec. 26th, 2009, 09:12 pm
      [personal profile] erinptah

      Well, no matter what happens next, thanks for the detailed explanation! And I would love to see a post laying out MF's linking policies, to throw some light on the operations of your shadowy cabal because I am a geek for organizational things like that :D