I can't even get caught up reading & replying to comments on my *own* posts, and you're sorting out *fandom*! You're total awesomesauce.
... You realize, of course, that your linkspamming, esp with this cool icon and the accompanying post, have irrevocably changed the course of how fandom is responding to this Fail? (Good thing you didn't implement this observer effect while Ogi was busy putting both feet in his mouth, or he might have pulled out of fandom before he showed all his colors. Or pants, or ... *mixed metaphors are mixed*)
Also, you've replaced half of what FW did - the record-keeping half - which is quite possibly much more than half the reason ppl read there. Which means, 18 months after Oulangi was pointing out at Escapade08 how badly fandom needs moar fannish infrastructure/metastructure, and how wrong it is to make FW be both mock comm (its purpose) and fannish newspaper (its side effect), you've singlehandedly sorted out a solution... Yes, *awesomesauce* is wholly you!
Credit where due: I took over, this time, for Naraht, who's busy with something like a doctoral thesis right now. Linkspam is her baby; she started the collection during Mammothfail. (And she got the idea from rydra_wong during racefail.) Wasn't my idea, but I'm happy to gather links.
I don't have time to read, think & reply either. Linkspamming is simpler than that; uses different parts of the brain. I'm incredibly behind on replying to comments for my S'Games story because of this.
Good thing you didn't implement this observer effect while Ogi was busy putting both feet in his mouthI did. There's a timelag, generally 12-36 hours, between posts & linkspam roundups. SurveyFail linkspam started evening of Aug 31; by Sep 2, he'd locked his journal down to just the fauxpology, and another couple of days later, he deleted it entirely
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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
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Secondary note--you should probably change the Linkspam reference to http://linkspam.dreamwidth.org/tag/surveyfail so that if people find this later, it'll connect to this particular incident's links.
Very OT, but you have been recommended to me by one of the esteemed people on my flist for opinions on fandom, and I currently need as many different viewpoints as I can get, and it would be awesome if you contributed. More information here.
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(And when the links slow down, I'm gonna start sorting the linkspam chronologically & by topic, so all the nifty fanworks can get showcased.)
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I can't even get caught up reading & replying to comments on my *own* posts, and you're sorting out *fandom*! You're total awesomesauce.
... You realize, of course, that your linkspamming, esp with this cool icon and the accompanying post, have irrevocably changed the course of how fandom is responding to this Fail? (Good thing you didn't implement this observer effect while Ogi was busy putting both feet in his mouth, or he might have pulled out of fandom before he showed all his colors. Or pants, or ... *mixed metaphors are mixed*)
Also, you've replaced half of what FW did - the record-keeping half - which is quite possibly much more than half the reason ppl read there. Which means, 18 months after Oulangi was pointing out at Escapade08 how badly fandom needs moar fannish infrastructure/metastructure, and how wrong it is to make FW be both mock comm (its purpose) and fannish newspaper (its side effect), you've singlehandedly sorted out a solution... Yes, *awesomesauce* is wholly you!
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I don't have time to read, think & reply either. Linkspamming is simpler than that; uses different parts of the brain. I'm incredibly behind on replying to comments for my S'Games story because of this.
Good thing you didn't implement this observer effect while Ogi was busy putting both feet in his mouthI did. There's a timelag, generally 12-36 hours, between posts & linkspam roundups. SurveyFail linkspam started evening of Aug 31; by Sep 2, he'd locked his journal down to just the fauxpology, and another couple of days later, he deleted it entirely ( ... )
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(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 ( ... )
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Will do!
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*sprinkles the Elf with flower petals*
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Very OT, but you have been recommended to me by one of the esteemed people on my flist for opinions on fandom, and I currently need as many different viewpoints as I can get, and it would be awesome if you contributed. More information here.
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