Ah, yes, ok, I see, yes, well maybe, yes, cool, sounds good, agree!
(Also having trouble keeping up with comments, LOL)
Unfunnybusiness at Journalfen is doing a good job of synopsis & updates on the issues... I think they're taking over the job of "fandom issues newsletter"--but it's one issue per post, and it's got the problem of being on JF and running with a version of LJ's code that was old when I started to use LJ.
Yes, and it's FW with the infinite regress of "if it's funny, mock it, and if it isn't, distort it so that you *can* mock it, and if you're out of mockbait, and done making it up, then mock the posters and the mockers, and the mockers of the mockers..." Plus, like you say, old LJ code: there is NFW I'm going to click to open every thread just to wade through the 99.9% stupid FW-clique-porn that substitutes for humor, discourse, and commentary, in hopes of the barely one or two comments per 100 that actually inform in an interesting way. To put it bluntly, if Ogi/Sai had wanted to paint fandom in the worst possible way, as the dumbest and rudest and crudest possible people, data-mining FW would have been the fastest possible jackpot.
I just can't be bothered to go over there. The parts-per-thousand quantity of May Be Interesting is as low as a random trawl through ffn. Linkspam, now ... that rocks.
(Also having trouble keeping up with comments, LOL)
Unfunnybusiness at Journalfen is doing a good job of synopsis & updates on the issues... I think they're taking over the job of "fandom issues newsletter"--but it's one issue per post, and it's got the problem of being on JF and running with a version of LJ's code that was old when I started to use LJ.
Yes, and it's FW with the infinite regress of "if it's funny, mock it, and if it isn't, distort it so that you *can* mock it, and if you're out of mockbait, and done making it up, then mock the posters and the mockers, and the mockers of the mockers..." Plus, like you say, old LJ code: there is NFW I'm going to click to open every thread just to wade through the 99.9% stupid FW-clique-porn that substitutes for humor, discourse, and commentary, in hopes of the barely one or two comments per 100 that actually inform in an interesting way. To put it bluntly, if Ogi/Sai had wanted to paint fandom in the worst possible way, as the dumbest and rudest and crudest possible people, data-mining FW would have been the fastest possible jackpot.
I just can't be bothered to go over there. The parts-per-thousand quantity of May Be Interesting is as low as a random trawl through ffn. Linkspam, now ... that rocks.
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Surveyfail synopsis: "I wasn't expecting some kind of Fannish Inquisition..." (less links; more commentary)
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