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have you seen my wife, mr. jones?

Jun 02, 2007 16:39

I'll admit that Strikethrough 2007 was emotionally draining for me, because it brought back some extremely unpleasant memories from a similar event in the Matrix fandom. One day, I was reading some amazing insights and discussing the film and our community with other fen; the next day, all those discussions were gone and I was resigning in protest ( Read more... )

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kerryblaze June 2 2007, 20:56:03 UTC

I'll admit that Strikethrough 2007 was emotionally draining for me, because it brought back some extremely unpleasant memories from a similar event in the Matrix fandom.

Same here. Though it wasn't a "big bad corporation" that took it away, it was still highly emotional and I felt a big loss. Like you said, "Because it wasn't just WB's space, it was our space, those were our thoughts, our creative efforts, our friendships and our community." Though I understand the reason the mods made the decision to delete the community, it wasn't only the mods community to begin with. And I don't understand why more effort hasn't been given to allow the writers to retrieve their work.

kerryblaze June 2 2007, 21:05:36 UTC

Opps. Hit reply too soon.

So like you, at first when I saw that the work was given back, I felt relief because it was something that I had been waiting for from another situation. I was totally transferring.

I'm still frightened and I have no intention of letting my guard down.

pikacharma June 2 2007, 21:18:13 UTC

Ugh. I'm still not sure what to make of the Stewardess post. While there's no solid evidence of anything, and the post itself is a rant as opposed to objective journalism...that's a fairly damning rant, and the pieces fit together a little *too* well for it to be nothing more than a disgruntled fan blowing off steam and tossing out random conspiracy theories. In and of itself, it's not proof of anything, but it's a nice little heap of circumstantial evidence, and rant though it may be, it's a rant that's at least earned an official response, IMHO anyways. I will be highly suspicious if 6A continues to ignore it when people are lining up at the News post and asking them to at least confirm or deny.

danbi June 2 2007, 21:53:13 UTC

I'm not sure how "safe" fandom is at LJ, in the sense that I am not sure if we'll have mass deletion in the future or what. But I also don't know that I'd fight for it - I mean, I might, because I really like faffing about on LJ. At the same time, I come online to have fun and the idea of fighting is kind of not inspiring. Even though I admit I'd mourn (at least a little) the amount of money I've put into LJ over the years.

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part 2 because of comment limit cornmouse June 2 2007, 22:51:09 UTC

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