I was actually thinking of you when I posted my little "help!" bit. *G* (And totally OT, but I saw an article in an "Entertainment Weekly" from earlier this year the other day - yeah, I'm slow reading - on that Jagger "Performance" film and the whole "Memo From Turner" video thing. I wouldn't have noticed it except for you guys!)
Anyway ... as far as being hampered by being the writer, if someone wants to say "this blows," that's their right. This wasn't even that, and I wasn't offended by the comment personally - I was annoyed that here was yet another incident of someone taking advantage of open commenting to essentially complain about the subject of the very community where the story is posted. I won't go into boring details, but there was a mailing list I was on in the late 1990s that was SO much fun, about an actor a bunch of us liked - it started small, we could use our real names, some of us met in real life, etc. Then a troll pilfered in. Then they brought MORE trolls, and the moderator (not me) didn't tell them to knock it off or ban them. It wasn't long before the place was no longer any fun and good fans abandoned it in droves. So my instinct is to address something when it's small, so it doesn't get worse and ruin everyone's fun.
is best, as a mod, to stay cool but be very clear
I don't think anyone can complain that you're not egalitarian! LOL. You've taken something of mine down before because it wasn't fic or art.
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Date: 2007-05-02 09:53 pm (UTC)Anyway ... as far as being hampered by being the writer, if someone wants to say "this blows," that's their right. This wasn't even that, and I wasn't offended by the comment personally - I was annoyed that here was yet another incident of someone taking advantage of open commenting to essentially complain about the subject of the very community where the story is posted. I won't go into boring details, but there was a mailing list I was on in the late 1990s that was SO much fun, about an actor a bunch of us liked - it started small, we could use our real names, some of us met in real life, etc. Then a troll pilfered in. Then they brought MORE trolls, and the moderator (not me) didn't tell them to knock it off or ban them. It wasn't long before the place was no longer any fun and good fans abandoned it in droves. So my instinct is to address something when it's small, so it doesn't get worse and ruin everyone's fun.
is best, as a mod, to stay cool but be very clear
I don't think anyone can complain that you're not egalitarian! LOL. You've taken something of mine down before because it wasn't fic or art.