Comments | swatkat24: TWOP

swatkat24

TWOP

Jan 20, 2008 20:46

Whatever happened to the House forums at TWOP? I have been avoiding them for a while now, because the rampant misogyny and general negetivity makes my blood pressure rise to unsavoury levels, but today I went back for some fic recs and they were empty. EMPTY, I tell you. Was there some flamewar no one told me about?

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spoopy January 20 2008, 15:24:07 UTC

A whole bunch of people were banned for whatever reason, people got shitty, they created a new place called House's House of Whining, which is the new TWOP, basically, except it's not much better than TWOP itself was.

swatkat24 January 20 2008, 15:32:43 UTC

Oh, wow. I remember the new mods being overbearing and kinda stupid ("this is offtopic!" "why is the Shipper thread called the Shipper thread?"), but I had no idea all this had happened. I'll go check this one out.

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spoopy January 20 2008, 16:30:49 UTC

Yeah. Exactly. Same. I was pretty much always ignored, particularly once more people rolled in and the cliquey-ness started. The exclusive, dogmatic, narrow-minded attitude there towards H/W as the One True Ship is the same as on house_wilson, just with more... how can I say it without being a cunt? Anyway, the attitude found in both places is part of the reason why I've jumped ships.

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evilstorm January 20 2008, 15:27:27 UTC

*surprise* It emptied out? Wow. I gave up on them too, ages ago. Huh.

swatkat24 January 20 2008, 17:54:48 UTC

There's a new site now: houseofwhining.com. Revolt in the ranks. *g*

evilstorm January 20 2008, 18:46:25 UTC

Oh, jaesus kroist. This fandom is totally batshit. XD

swatkat24 January 21 2008, 04:13:14 UTC

No, no, for once it's not the fans' fault. TWOP introduced some stupid new mods who would ban people for talking about Wilson in the House thread, and ask things like 'Why is the Shipper thread called the Shipper thread? I'm renaming this the Relationship thread.' Fans were pissed, and they staged a walkout.

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pwcorgigirl January 20 2008, 16:32:01 UTC

It's barely breathing over there now. While all the iron-fisted and dumb-headed moderation was going on, the Hizzy Meet Market thread still managed to be lively. But I notice it has not been updated since Dec. 29, when it used to generate pages and pages of posts every day.

swatkat24 January 20 2008, 17:29:00 UTC

I was surprised to see the fic rec thread so empty, when it used to be one of the busiest threads! I have no intention of spending too much time on the other threads in House of Whining - I seldom agree with the other posters, and arguing is like banging your head against a brick wall. But I'm glad for the new fic rec thread. The old TWOP thread used to regularly discover gems, and I hope this will be the same.