Yeah, I can tell it's May ...

[veronica_rich]

This makes the second troll my Will community has attracted from sparrabeth in the past month. (You've gotta scroll to the bottom of those pages for it.) Why do I think that? Oh, I don't know - just a hunch.

This wasn't a criticism of my writing style (which would be fair). It was simply an excuse to anonymously bitch in a minority forum and denounce anything that takes fan focus off Jack and/or Elizabeth.

And no, neither of these comments are particularly horrifying, but as it gets closer to May 23 and some J/E fans get meaner about not getting their way ... well, I haven't lived this long not to spot a problem a mile away. I don't want to have to resort to disabling anonymous commenting in a fan forum. Are there any community mods on my f-list who have dealt with this, with advice? I already made a short post asking "visitors" to the comm to be respectful of the members there, but I wonder if it'll work.

Geez o pete. I didn't realizing having a Will community would be like disagreeing with the Mafia! LOL


Seriously, I keep reading how J/E fans are so much older and more mature than us "13-year-old hormonal" Will/Orlando fans. Me no think so.

Comments

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

I think, given the sort of intense "loyalty" that certain members of the sparrabeth community have displayed over the last few months, you are either stuck with disabling anonymous comments (which is the easiest and, frankly, because I hate the anonymity of hate, my preferred solution) or just ignoring the trolls who post here. I think asking for respect is like farting in a windstorm. The people who are going to be respectful don't need to be told and the people who are NOT, could care less. IMO.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Ignoring trolls who post here, I can take or leave (I think you meant "there;" that's how I'm going to take it, anyway) - but for a community, I think the members should feel like it's a happy space they can go to chill out and have fun - yet, they still manage, by and large, to keep their annoyances with characters outside of Will phrased decently. God knows the Sparrabethers say whatever comes into their fingers on their community, and have such massive numbers that who would disagree with them?