: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
- zvi: Concerning the nature of the World Wide Web and hypertext essays - If you wish to prevent large numbers of unknowns from reading or responding to what you have written, if you do not want people to be able to compare and contrast your work with other work to which you have not deliberately contributed, I advise you to choose a medium other than the World Wide Web in which to publish. -
- alixtii: On the Transformativity of Fanworks - On a scale of 0 and 10, with 0 being "not at all transformative" and 10 being "the most transformative I can possibly imagine," how transformative is fanfiction as a genre? -
- amaresu: Mini Meta Fest: Real life and fandom (divergency and/or connections) - I think that we (general we) have a tendency to think that fandom is something special. That it's this big secret and we are the sacred gatekeepers. And it's just really not. It's not that fandom isn't special, it's just not special in the Super Sekrit Club sense. Because fannish activities happen all the time and they're committed by people who may not even know what "fandom" is. -
- legionseagle: Structures of Argument; Structure of Discord - Picture my horror the other day on the interwebs when someone delivered themselves of a claim (which they led me to believe derived from instructions given in their high school debating club) that the floodgates argument and the slippery slope arguments were alike "logical fallacies" and that their introduction into debate "automatically means the other side wins". . . . it seems to me that in all likelihood this so-called prohibition on the slippery slope argument and the floodgates argument is like those nonsensical prohibitions on the passive voice and the adveb; "If they might do it too much, forbid them from doing it at all."
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lady_ganesh: The abused kids of fandom and you (warning, meta ahead) - I started thinking about all the Abused Kids of Fandom. Holy smokes the list is long. . . .I remember back in the day, people in Sentinel fandom would give Blair this Big Angsty Abusive Storyline, and it kind of cracks me up that dude-- a lot of us have Big Angsty Abusive Storylines, and no one in my circle writes them. -- besame_bj: Fanfic to Original Fiction (Again) - I don't know all the details and, as with anything else in fandom, I'm sure there's two sides to the story, but I was struck by some of the things kaigou said. -
- cupidsbow: "Intimate strangers" by cupidsbow (Mini Meta)Recently, I posted about how much I love the diversity of my f-list, and how much all of you have enriched my life. I still feel that way, and it's still entirely true.
There's a flip side to that diversity, though. While I know some of the people on my f-list well, there are a huge number I really don't know at all. - zvi: Comment repost: How is posting to my own journal derailing - Do you understand that your post in your journal about this tangent makes up a part of the larger imbroglio? Do you understand that people, in following the larger imbroglio, will re-direct their attention to your post, because you have positioned it as being a part of the larger discussion at hand? Do you understand that that focus pull is exactly what is being objected to as derailing? -
- zvi: Additional thoughts on mutually assured respect... - I do think there's a big difference between multiple reactions to the same stimulus, and reacting to a previously occurring discussion by refocusing it on orthagonal issues. -
- wistfuljane: I've becoming one of the people who can't stop clarifying - It is like telling a specific marginalized party that they are wrong when they are trying to point out something as -ist. Derailing has become, from my perspective, synonymous with "You're telling me I'm a bad person!" -
- gabrielleabelle: Fandom Eye-wear - A gen fic is a fic that isn't using a shippy lens to tell the story. It may have the same dialogue, same action as a shippy fic (because romantic pairings are common so they're gonna pop up even in gen fics). But without that shippy lens, the prose will be different. -
- juice817: [in audio_by_juice] Questions, I has them! I ended up in a m - Is explicit author permission necessary? -