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Seriously, dudes, what the hell?
I've been fighting the migraine from hell for a few days; I come back and fandom's gone crazy. Not regular crazy, either. Really crazy.
Fanlib: If you're crazy enough to hand over your fan fiction to a corporation intent on profiting from it, I can't help you. It comes down to this: if they want to make money off it, they'll expect tribbers to follow their rules. The beauty of fanfic is we make up our own freaking rules and change 'em as we please. They're operating under the delusion that the fanfic community actually wants legitimacy, which makes the so-called "business model" seriously flawed. They're already going the way of fandom.com - someone give me popcorn, 'cause it'll be fun to watch.
LJ is banning fandom: I've got only two words on this one: prove it. Folks, LJ do not randomly delete accounts for TOS violations. You get warnings first, requests to remove or f-lock content and so on. So if anyone has been affected by this supposed crackdown, we'd have heard about it. With links. With excruciating detail. Everyone's posting that this happened to a friend of a friend of a friend: that translates as "it's a lie". Kudos to whoever thought this one up, though: I've never seen a meme spread so fast.
My LJ will remain 90% public for the simple reason that I don't want to have to friend back everyone who wants to read my fic. My friends list is the journals I want to read regularly, and it's staying that way.
One positive outcome though: it made me glance over my LJ interests which I haven't updated in a while and I realised I actually hadn't listed Wincest. Fixed that *g*.
Oh, and the latest Pirates of the Carribean film?
( Cut for spoilers )
I've been fighting the migraine from hell for a few days; I come back and fandom's gone crazy. Not regular crazy, either. Really crazy.
Fanlib: If you're crazy enough to hand over your fan fiction to a corporation intent on profiting from it, I can't help you. It comes down to this: if they want to make money off it, they'll expect tribbers to follow their rules. The beauty of fanfic is we make up our own freaking rules and change 'em as we please. They're operating under the delusion that the fanfic community actually wants legitimacy, which makes the so-called "business model" seriously flawed. They're already going the way of fandom.com - someone give me popcorn, 'cause it'll be fun to watch.
LJ is banning fandom: I've got only two words on this one: prove it. Folks, LJ do not randomly delete accounts for TOS violations. You get warnings first, requests to remove or f-lock content and so on. So if anyone has been affected by this supposed crackdown, we'd have heard about it. With links. With excruciating detail. Everyone's posting that this happened to a friend of a friend of a friend: that translates as "it's a lie". Kudos to whoever thought this one up, though: I've never seen a meme spread so fast.
My LJ will remain 90% public for the simple reason that I don't want to have to friend back everyone who wants to read my fic. My friends list is the journals I want to read regularly, and it's staying that way.
One positive outcome though: it made me glance over my LJ interests which I haven't updated in a while and I realised I actually hadn't listed Wincest. Fixed that *g*.
Oh, and the latest Pirates of the Carribean film?
( Cut for spoilers )
