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Apr. 22nd, 2002 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiMuchos gracias to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tobymalfoy for that pic you see by my name if you're looking at this on a "friends" view.
I still have yet to figure out if people are thinking of Animal Farm or of 1984 when they call us Orwellian Mods. I mean, I admit that there are similarities between FA and the "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others..." concept, given that only mods get special titles and can do things like merge threads or upload fics or spend hours reconfiguring the servers on the farm, um, I mean the site...
But we don't lock people in Room 101 if they disagree with things we say...and we certainly don't have an anti-sex league (except for the fact that we don't allow NC17 fics) and we don't require people to love us (although it's nice if they do) and we certainly don't delete posts just because they criticise the site, or the mods, or the fics, or anything like that. While most of the mods probably do want a utopian society and are horrified to read that admins of other sites say things about FA like "people who sail particular ships have a lot of personal emotion invested in what they believe and they'll fight to the death for it using any means they can to bring you down," all it makes me wonder is, are some people so mean or bitter or confused or, worst of all, lied to, that they can't see us for what we really are?
And what is FA, really?
An archive. An archive of fanfics - anything with reasonable spelling and grammar and canon-accuracy and a header that complies with our template, and which is submitted by someone over 13 years. We host anything that fits that bill unless it's NC-17, as long as it's sent to schnooglemods@yahoo.com.
We don't exclude fics by SHIP. We don't exclude fics because we think that the characterisation is incorrect. We don't exclude things even if we don't like you!
You send it. We'll put it up. Don't believe me?
Try it. You might be surprised.
And don't just believe what your online friends say. You might trust people you meet online - you might even like them when you meet them in person. But sometimes, people you meet in person turn out to be hackers. Or stalkers. Or inadvertently loose with someone else's personal information. Sometimes, they turn out to be not-very-nice-at-all. And sometimes, they outright lie to you.
No way to predict it, no way, really, to prevent it. The only thing to really do is, when someone shows himself or herself to be a person who would lie to his or her own friends to save his or her own skin, you have to realise that you have a rat on your hands. And after all the months that you've been sitting in your little world, believing the lies and telling your own, I really doubt that there's anything that is ever going to convince you that Sirius wasn't the traitor. Other than believe that he was taking an action that would help his friends stay safe, and that the truth would vindicate him, no matter how much you disliked him for things he did in school, like sending you to the Shrieking Shack that night, Sirius did nothing wrong.
Peter did.
Of course, by the end of Book IV, Dumbledore got Snape and Sirius to shake hands, albeit briefly, and work together...
Maybe it's time for that all-fandom summit/chat concept to bloom again...
tobymalfoy for that pic you see by my name if you're looking at this on a "friends" view. I still have yet to figure out if people are thinking of Animal Farm or of 1984 when they call us Orwellian Mods. I mean, I admit that there are similarities between FA and the "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others..." concept, given that only mods get special titles and can do things like merge threads or upload fics or spend hours reconfiguring the servers on the farm, um, I mean the site...
But we don't lock people in Room 101 if they disagree with things we say...and we certainly don't have an anti-sex league (except for the fact that we don't allow NC17 fics) and we don't require people to love us (although it's nice if they do) and we certainly don't delete posts just because they criticise the site, or the mods, or the fics, or anything like that. While most of the mods probably do want a utopian society and are horrified to read that admins of other sites say things about FA like "people who sail particular ships have a lot of personal emotion invested in what they believe and they'll fight to the death for it using any means they can to bring you down," all it makes me wonder is, are some people so mean or bitter or confused or, worst of all, lied to, that they can't see us for what we really are?
And what is FA, really?
An archive. An archive of fanfics - anything with reasonable spelling and grammar and canon-accuracy and a header that complies with our template, and which is submitted by someone over 13 years. We host anything that fits that bill unless it's NC-17, as long as it's sent to schnooglemods@yahoo.com.
We don't exclude fics by SHIP. We don't exclude fics because we think that the characterisation is incorrect. We don't exclude things even if we don't like you!
You send it. We'll put it up. Don't believe me?
Try it. You might be surprised.
And don't just believe what your online friends say. You might trust people you meet online - you might even like them when you meet them in person. But sometimes, people you meet in person turn out to be hackers. Or stalkers. Or inadvertently loose with someone else's personal information. Sometimes, they turn out to be not-very-nice-at-all. And sometimes, they outright lie to you.
No way to predict it, no way, really, to prevent it. The only thing to really do is, when someone shows himself or herself to be a person who would lie to his or her own friends to save his or her own skin, you have to realise that you have a rat on your hands. And after all the months that you've been sitting in your little world, believing the lies and telling your own, I really doubt that there's anything that is ever going to convince you that Sirius wasn't the traitor. Other than believe that he was taking an action that would help his friends stay safe, and that the truth would vindicate him, no matter how much you disliked him for things he did in school, like sending you to the Shrieking Shack that night, Sirius did nothing wrong.
Peter did.
Of course, by the end of Book IV, Dumbledore got Snape and Sirius to shake hands, albeit briefly, and work together...
Maybe it's time for that all-fandom summit/chat concept to bloom again...
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Date: 2002-04-22 10:13 am (UTC)b2) I LOVE this post! You wouldn't mind if I saved it and quoted bits of it to rebut people who want to unfairly pidgeonhole us? Although, there will be people who will refuse that we are what we say and I think I'm finally starting to get that through my thick head...
~Amber
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Date: 2002-04-22 12:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-04-23 07:58 am (UTC)Nice picture, by the way.
Anyway, I don't think you're Orwellian. Mods are cool. Well, the one's I've come across (which is not all of them, I know, but anyway).
And FA is more than just an archive! It's a massive, cool message forum too!
Now I'm off to read porn in all shapes, sizes and ships. :D