Well, I got my entertainment for the evening.
ONTD party time!
Say what you will about ONTD's hive-mind and rude behavior, but the "writer" BAWWWWWWing is very clearly in the wrong here, and I see no way she'll ever fess up and apologize for misreading the situation. The ONTD article that wasn't up to her citation standards (though her site was in fact linked) was deleted before a mod got a chance to look at it. If all she cared about was the citation, that should have ended it right there. Instead she wanted a public reprimand for the poster (lol like he's on payroll or something), despite the fact that the post was not against ONTD rules. In reality, she posted about it on tumblr, reddit, twitter... She just lambasted ONTD and whined about how the internet doesn't care about being intelligent and sourcing correctly. Note that her "source" was no different than ONTD's usual fare: "Source [ONTD]" with a hyperlink. She also deleted comments from her article then eventually disallowed them. This all started because a third site credited ONTD for the article instead of her directly. She dealt with them in a mature, responsible way, and they changed their citation. Note that the third site (Jezabel?) often uses ONTD as a source, despite ONTD's very clear source links at the bottom of every non-original post. This whole thing is especially sad because I would like to support a feminist journal, but she's being such a complete asshat about this.
OK, time for something else. I've been subbing a long project lately, so maybe I'll go work on that some more.
Say what you will about ONTD's hive-mind and rude behavior, but the "writer" BAWWWWWWing is very clearly in the wrong here, and I see no way she'll ever fess up and apologize for misreading the situation. The ONTD article that wasn't up to her citation standards (though her site was in fact linked) was deleted before a mod got a chance to look at it. If all she cared about was the citation, that should have ended it right there. Instead she wanted a public reprimand for the poster (lol like he's on payroll or something), despite the fact that the post was not against ONTD rules. In reality, she posted about it on tumblr, reddit, twitter... She just lambasted ONTD and whined about how the internet doesn't care about being intelligent and sourcing correctly. Note that her "source" was no different than ONTD's usual fare: "Source [ONTD]" with a hyperlink. She also deleted comments from her article then eventually disallowed them. This all started because a third site credited ONTD for the article instead of her directly. She dealt with them in a mature, responsible way, and they changed their citation. Note that the third site (Jezabel?) often uses ONTD as a source, despite ONTD's very clear source links at the bottom of every non-original post. This whole thing is especially sad because I would like to support a feminist journal, but she's being such a complete asshat about this.
OK, time for something else. I've been subbing a long project lately, so maybe I'll go work on that some more.