*laughing bitterly*

[celandineb]

*waves at femmequixotic* Apparently I've turned into Femme -- or rather the reporter for this story about LJ apparently doesn't understand the difference between an original post and a comment. I hope Femme doesn't object to having my words put into her mouth. (The link in the article leads to the thread of my comment, but in the article Femme's the one

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[florahart]

Hahahahahahah oopsies. I did know YOU said that but wondered if she had TOO. :D

They're apparently making a statement in the next hourish. Or something.

[celandineb]

Yeah, I shall be keeping an eye out for it... I'm sure 90 people will link as soon as it's up wherever.

[ancarett]

I noticed that as well. Ah, well. The article's pretty good otherwise, actually, letting the SA jerk shoot himself in the foot on the whole legal issue and prospect of community relations.

[celandineb]

*nods* I didn't have any problems with the article overall, just the misattribution. Have seen some folks griping about the links to posts, but frankly if a post is public I don't see how it can be construed as wrong to link to it.

[tacky_tramp]

Have seen some folks griping about the links to posts

You're kidding, right?

Oh fandom, never change.

[celandineb]

Well, more about the links to comms, like erotic_elves... there really isn't any need to direct people to that, after all, when noting that there were comms similar to the purged ones that did not get suspended.

[femmequixotic]

Yeah. Sigh.

I emailed the reporterd and said, um, hello...misattribution there...

*facepalms*

[femmequixotic]

Although, I have to say, I wish I had said it. :D

[celandineb]

Heh. Yeah, I'm sending him an email about it too. Glad that you don't seem to mind if it doesn't get fixed... one never knows how they do that.

[espresso_addict]

It seems a decent balanced article, for once.

[celandineb]

*nods* The reporter didn't really need to point at e.g. erotic_elves and so on (why give the lunatics easy targets? he could have said "other similar communities" without naming names), but otherwise yes.

[celandineb]

Depending on how he was viewing Femme's page, and how well he understands LJ's comment feature, though, I can understand the mistake. Will be interested to see if it gets fixed, though.