AKICILJ

[aquaeri]

Does anyone know how to close down an account at Tor? I can't find any help, I can't find any instructions, I can find heaps of legal "if you do bad things we may close your account" stuff, so I'm wondering if the easiest way is committing massive copyright infringement????

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AKIICILJ

[aquaeri]

Yep, tor.com, thanks, I'll give that email a whirl.

[heleninwales]

I've vowed that I'm not following any more links to posts about You Know What, but I understood it had spread to the Tor site.

I never created an account over there in the first place. Just one too many places to go and I actuallly felt a bit peeved that they might drag talented bloggers over onto their site, which after all is commercial and devoted to their own titles.

[aquaeri]

Well, I was just looking through my stuff and I realised I wasn't using that account, and I didn't feel comfortable having it anymore. I don't know if it's "devoted" to their own titles - the blogging seems to cover a variety of titles.

I know the whole thing is ugly and I can understand wanting to stay clear of it. But I can also understand why a whole heap of people who aren't white are really angry, because in a sense this is something they can't stay clear of - this is symptomatic of their entire experience in science fiction fandom. And at least it's out in the open now.

[sbw]

What on earth are you guys talking about?

[aquaeri]

Erm, you sure you want to know? ;-)

I was going to try to attempt to summarise, but luckily, other people have done so already and I'm going to steal their work.
A brief initial summary here
A slightly longer summary which assumes you already know the previous.

(You may also need to know that Teresa Nielsen-Hayden is a "big name" science fiction fan and former editor at Tor, and her husband Patrick is also a big-name fan and currently the head editor or something like that at Tor.)

[daze39]

I'm wondering if the easiest way is committing massive copyright infringement??

I suppose you could post a link to a graphic novel using characters originally created by Marvel[tm] Comics to dramatize a detailed exposition of the contents of the Secret Scientology[tm] Scriptures... that should do the trick if anything would.

[aquaeri]

No, in fact an email did the trick - an email to their "questions" address. I was just snarky initially because when I was on the website, I could find so much information about reasons they might close my account, and nothing about if I wanted to close my account.