Yeah, I can tell it's May ...
May. 2nd, 2007 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_richThis makes the second troll my Will community has attracted from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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.
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.
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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.