Why do I DW?

[selenay936]

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[paranoidangel42]

I miss forums, they're so much easier to use than anything else.

But Twitter, Tumblr and A03 seem to be particularly unsuited to fannish interaction to me. A03 is just for posting fic, to which someone might comment if you're lucky, or leave kudos, which means you can't have any conversation with that person (especially if they're a guest). Tumblr is for posting photos, and as a non-visual person, is useless to me (well, except for cute bunny pictures but there are websites for that already). And Twitter really only works in relatively real-time - if all the conversation is at night, then there's not a great deal of point me chiming in on it the next morning. Plus I have enough to keep up with comedians and a few people I know - any more than that and I wouldn't have time to read and TweetDeck wouldn't show me any more (it'll only do 200 new posts at a time).

[selenay936]

I really don't miss the closed system on forums :-D So, uh, I think we're always going to disagree there

[paranoidangel42]

I think we will agree to disagree on platforms. But in what way do you mean forums are closed? I would have said they're more open than LJ

[selenay936]

But in what way do you mean forums are closedMy experience with forums in the past has been that they're very much a single fandom (or even pairing) specific with chatter about other topics heavily frowned on. In some cases, there has been active discouragement from thinking about trying out new things. That could have been specific to the forums I've been on and I'll admit that it's been a long time since I was last a regular on a forum. They also vary, I think, from forum to forum in how easy it is to join in with the chatter. Some forums are welcoming, some aren't. I think we're both looking for different things in our online interactions :-D

[tawg]

You are so lucky that you didn't mention the strikethrough on twitter - I wrote a paper on it at University (Media and Sexuality, awesome subject). The strikethrough of '07 had nothing to do with advertising, and everything to do with an online vigilante group called Warriors for Innocence who track down and report peadophilic content online (and they seem pretty shady but whatevs) contacting LJ about there being blogs that were devoted to recounting sexual crimes committed against children on their serves (which there were - and there has been some debate about whether they were fantasy blogs or true accounts, but none of the blogs flagged by WfI were fandom related). LJ claimed that they were not responsible for moderating content (which is in their TOS) and therefore were not legally accountable for any undesirable or offensive journals. WfI responded that since the materials were hosted on LJs servers, LJ was hosting child pornography and WfI would be taking the issue to the FBI

[selenay936]

Pretty good history lesson :-D