About that LJ Rumor...

[liz_marcs]

Continued in the following posts: Another Exchange of Emails, A Swiftly Tilting LJ..., and LJ User Action Centers

ETA: This post has been made public and not public so often that I've decided, "Fuck it. I got shit-all to worry about. It's public and it's staying public." Mostly because despite my best efforts, I can't prove anything that anyone says

Comments

[nycorson]

Good for you. I worked on a rape crisis line so I know all the hoops you have to jump through to actually catch the bad guys. Probably why I almost never write rape scenes, I know too much about them

[lunarwhirl]

I've actually written a rape scene. I'm a victim of it.
Strangely enough, it helped me feel better. I suppose it's because I had control over the scene and could stop or even retcon it if I ever felt the wish to. Now, I'm writing that character slowly but surely getting over it and living his life normally.

[abbylee]

Agreeing with your points but

This response, by the way, was posted within an hour after my correspondent gave me the heads up. That kind of coincidence makes my teeth itchy.

All someone would have to do is follow the link, and your post URL would show up in their logs. Nothing suspicious beyond that would have to be going on.

ie, it's somewhat suspicious when you just mention someone and they find you out that quickly (even then, google pulls from livejournal pretty fast), but not when you link to them. Rude to comment, maybe, but not suspicious.

[matgb]

When I was trying to be a 'pro-blogger', I used to check my logs every day. I've had people respond to my posts within the hour by checking referrals, it just happened they'd check their logs at roughly the same time I was active.

Yes, I was a little obessive at the time, but given some statcounting packages only give detailed logs for the last 24 hours, that's not too bad.

Not discounting that they're obsessive loons, but this in itself isn't proof, just pretty strong evidence.

[abbylee]

When I used to admin a large website, the referral page was one of the ones that I flipped to as part of my usual rounds. It was just like looking at the "who's online" section of the forum to see which topics were getting the most readers. I did it multiple times a day, and multiple times a session. Once or twice a day would have been enough for that particular page, but it was just a twitch that I had to do all the relevant pages whether or not they'd be likely to pull up new info

[whiskyinmind]

*makes whooping audience noises in her head*

*applause*

Again, I find myself thanking you for taking a stance on something that would otherwise seem so self-explanatory that one would not think one would have to take a stance.

Kudos.

Thank you for your eloquence, thank you for saying what I wish I could.

[bastardsnow]

A very good series of questions, I'll be interested to know if and how they answer. To be honest, of everyone here, I'm kind of glad they picked on you, if they were gonna pick on anybody, because you seem among the most likely on my flist to stand up and really say "Are you fucking kidding me?"

But I would also argue that 'Warriors' is a legitimate term for anyone associated with Ancient Roman (or, I'm sure, many other ancient cultures') armies and such. =)

Anyway, bravo.

[tiferet]

I'd say 90% of Wincest has nothing to do with children as it is written about two adults.

[liz_marcs]

Agreed.

However, it seems fandom is getting dinged, judging by the suspended journals. But this is the group responsible for dinging a bunch of fandom journals and RPGs today.

[rorekgwolfe]

I've never heard the term Wincest. Can you please enlighten me?

[tiferet]

You're fandom, right? I'm not explaining this to anyone who's not right now. I see BJD stuff on your journal but I've known lots of doll people in the Barbie community who were totally conservative?