Mmmm, S'mores

[ranuel]

My silly high at finding myself in a reference work has been replaced by a silly high of being an actual part of a major bit of fandom wank.

EDIT TO ADD: Clicking on the Fan History Wiki link below will generate ad revenue for that site and for its owner. You might want to read the whole post before you chose to click or not.

Comments

[sl_walker]

Wankapedia... man, that is the greatest thing I've ever seen.

http://delicious.com/tag/fanhistory%3Aexpose <-- tons of links, some duplicates, but overall fandom reaction to this fiasco so far.

But here's the one where the 'marketing' of Fanhistory was discussed by Hale herself, and one (of many) of the reasons that fandom is really pissed off at her right now:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:d5yEbvKDtmcJ:purplepopple.insanejournal.com/14397.html+%22The+dollar+amounts+are+the+part+that,+from+my+point+of+view,+the+number+that+are+probably+going+to+be+the+most+problematic.+%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
This is the Google-cache of her own journal.

"If you are making more than you

[ranuel]

*bows* Thank you.

[jazzy_fay]

I agree that it (or something like it) could be a great boon not only to the fandom itself, but to the academic study of fandom. However, I'll flat out admit that rather than feeling any sense of "squee" or what have you, I was sort of perturbed to see my own screenname given a page (even if it's only a bot-generated stub) without even a "by your leave" or "hey, come check this out."

[ranuel]

Knowing that she sent a bot out to comb FF.Net to create hundreds, if not thousands, of pages I doubt that she even knows our entries exist so I wasn't surprised by not getting a notice. It is a little creepy to think that there is material out there on us that we don't know about that is public though.

[jazzy_fay]

It is a little creepy to think that there is material out there on us that we don't know about that is public though. Exactly! I mean, I realize that even just a single fandom can be huge, and combined...well...it's probably beyond the human scope to compile even the most basic database for so large a group, but somehow sending a bot to comb through all those author profiles is just too sinister for me.

[ranuel]

While I can appreciate their position asking my readers to condemn something sight unseen, just on my word, or the word of the people I link to, would be intellectually irresponsible. They are all adults and can make a choice to click, or not on their own. If I were to kill the link they all know how to Google anyway if they were curious.

I will, however, edit the post to make it clearer that if they do click they will be giving her money.

[ranuel]

I'm not entirely clear from the post your linked to or the wiki entry that I clicked through to from there how exactly that works but I stuck the tag in anyway.