Finally pushed to putting in my two cents
So most people should know what's going on with LJ and deleting journals because of interests in people's user info. If you haven't, then you've either dropped off the face of the earth and not walked in fandom for a day or you don't care. If you don't care, then walk on by. If you do, then I guess this could be for you
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The one I saw was Dutch, but I do realize that they are/were thinking about foreign sites. While I have no problem with Dutch or Russian or Chinese or whatever nationality run blogs, you also have to take other things into consideration: if the site is run in Russian or Dutch as a default, that's gonna cause problems. The majority of fandom stuff is run in English. I don't know if it's become the default because more English speakers are involved in fandom or what, but that's the way things are right now. Even if you can set the site to default English later, you will have the problem of those fandom people who cannot run a site in another non-romance language. I know that the first time I viewed a page that was in Chinese or Japanese or Russian or Arabic I had to install a language pack. And there are some people who just can't do that, be it because of incompatibility or restrictions based on their location.
The thing is, I like having everything I want to read come to me.
Oh, me too. When I have to go looking for it, it becomes work which just
isn't as much fun.
Also a lot of the forums I've seen just put posts in chronological order, so if you're replying to the first comment, there may be 2, 20, 200 comments between the first and yours. This can make it really hard to follow things.
I hate the way forums are arranged. I tried to follow a couple of the threads in the Sanctuary forums and it took me twenty minutes to figure out that I had to go to the last page and then scroll from the bottom to the top to read the damn thing. And, of course, as you mentioned, there were comments that were pages away.
Umm there were some ugly moments between the Brian/Michael shippers and the Brian/Justin shippers in QaF on LJ, but I don't think it ever got too bad. Mostly a lot of trolling and/or ranting on personal LJs.
But that's the beauty of LJ--people put it on their own personal journals and the general fandom public doesn't have to know about it unless they go looking for it. But when there are ship wars on the lists, it's right there. In CSI, we almost had a bad ship war between the Grissom/Sara shippers and pretty much everyone else who ships with Sara (Nick/Sara, Greg/Sara, Cath/Sara, A Random Person/Sara). Luckily, the mods knew what was happening and nipped that stuff in the bud.
Although some people argue that while LJ's arguments don't last as long, they tend to repeat a lot.
But you get really good at ignoring them. ;)
Yeah that happens to me sometimes, but the thing is, even if you decide to skip a bunch of it, it's still there for you when you get back, unlike LJ where unless you go to the effort of bookmarking things, stuff gets burried pretty quickly
This is actually a problem for me wherever I go. On LJ, there are fics and other posts that I want to keep going back to but I tend to lose them. That's when it comes in handy to have a decent memory. For example, I know of about fifteen different posts that I need to go back and find. Some are fics and some aren't. But all of it is in groups that are well tagged so things are easier to find. As long as people tag things effectively, it makes searches a lot easier. And on my e-mail, there were so many things that I saved (and still save) that I never read all of my e-mail and have no mail in my box. There's always something there reminding me that I need to check it...like the other one of our e-mails...
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Oh I don't think there was ever a question if having it in a language other than English, they just wanted the server in a country that doesn't enforce copyright laws so that TPTB can't go over the owners head to the hosting service and have their site pulled that way.
Oh, me too. When I have to go looking for it, it becomes work which just
isn't as much fun.
Oh I'll search fic out when I need to. Actually I'm constantly shocked and overwhelmed by the amount of *good* fic in the SGA fandom. All my other fandoms I've had to go searching for what I want at one point or another.
I hate the way forums are arranged. I tried to follow a couple of the threads in the Sanctuary forums and it took me twenty minutes to figure out that I had to go to the last page and then scroll from the bottom to the top to read the damn thing.
Yeah that throws me too. Especially if it's an active forum and there are about 500 pages to get "caught up" on. It's like watching a soap opera, you either have to wade through 20 years of back story or dive in and spend the first year really confused by all the plot points/characters whose back story you don't know. :P Not that I've watched a single episode of a soap opera in my life, but I know people who do so I'm extrapolating....
But that's the beauty of LJ--people put it on their own personal journals and the general fandom public doesn't have to know about it unless they go looking for it.
Except there are places like metafandom that sometimes bring people to your LJ, and it's soooo much harder to ignore the wank when it's happening on your own journal. :S
But you get really good at ignoring them. ;)
God, it's the people that don't ignore it that get me. Those who go back year after year and fight the same argument, just with different people. Wouldn't you get tired of that? I know I would.
And on my e-mail, there were so many things that I saved (and still save) that I never read all of my e-mail and have no mail in my box. There's always something there reminding me that I need to check it...like the other one of our e-mails...
I've discovered that the reason why I always answered you e-mails right away is because I knew if I didn't it would take me forever and a day like it's taking me now :P
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