my 2 knuts
Jun. 26th, 2002 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiI think is very brave to have entered this incredibly weird world of people who enjoy forcing others to adhere to a rigid rulebook. Brave, but somewhat, um... er... besieged, I think, is the right word.
This vaguely reminds me of some posts back in January on a multifandom fanfiction discussion list, where the list admins indicated that there were Rules of Fanfic Writing. Well, nobody gave me such a list when I started. Same with LJs. Nobody gave me a list of what it could and could not be used for. Ha! Wonder what the reaction would be to the fandom-market research thing I am setting up this week?
Personally, I find it a little DISTURBING to have it so blatently broadcast that people read other people's LJs "...to find out about people..." It's such a peeping tom kind of thing to do that it makes me uncomfortable and gets me to wonder if I should make more posts friends only (for my 100 person plus friends list) and leave a few posts public so they can be here for "community" purposes, like the one of yesterday regarding the new list. All that review made me think was "ew!" - and not about Olympia (as I know HP is a perfectly fine thing to be obsessed with :) - but about this twenty year old who posts quiz results in her bio...
just edited to add (June 27, 9:45 am)
My humble opinion yet again, but:
1. Commenting on a review is not harassment.
2. Saying, in your LJ, that you're confused/discomforted/otherwise befuddled by a review, and posting a link to that review, does not mean that you are sending your friends to harass the reviewer.
3. If you're going to rate or review LiveJournals and give points for providing ways for people to contact you off of your LJ, there should also be points given for allowing people to contact you on your LJ, via the Comments feature.
but, of course, this is just MHO, and yet another clear indication that different "communities" operate in different ways online. Not that one way is worse or better, as an absolute, but we should all recognize that when we step outside of the fascinating and multifaceted HP live journal community, which *is* a community even if we don't actually have the community tag (we have friends lists instead) people will look at us through standards that have little if any relevance to our community.
Of course, I am curious as to what they would make of Cassie's Secret Diaries LJ... with it's near-4000 posts IN her LJ, and the contrast to the approx. 200 posts she's left in others' LJs. Oops! There goes one star - she's clearly not a positive member of the LJ universe...[end edit]
This vaguely reminds me of some posts back in January on a multifandom fanfiction discussion list, where the list admins indicated that there were Rules of Fanfic Writing. Well, nobody gave me such a list when I started. Same with LJs. Nobody gave me a list of what it could and could not be used for. Ha! Wonder what the reaction would be to the fandom-market research thing I am setting up this week?
Personally, I find it a little DISTURBING to have it so blatently broadcast that people read other people's LJs "...to find out about people..." It's such a peeping tom kind of thing to do that it makes me uncomfortable and gets me to wonder if I should make more posts friends only (for my 100 person plus friends list) and leave a few posts public so they can be here for "community" purposes, like the one of yesterday regarding the new list. All that review made me think was "ew!" - and not about Olympia (as I know HP is a perfectly fine thing to be obsessed with :) - but about this twenty year old who posts quiz results in her bio...
just edited to add (June 27, 9:45 am)
My humble opinion yet again, but:
1. Commenting on a review is not harassment.
2. Saying, in your LJ, that you're confused/discomforted/otherwise befuddled by a review, and posting a link to that review, does not mean that you are sending your friends to harass the reviewer.
3. If you're going to rate or review LiveJournals and give points for providing ways for people to contact you off of your LJ, there should also be points given for allowing people to contact you on your LJ, via the Comments feature.
but, of course, this is just MHO, and yet another clear indication that different "communities" operate in different ways online. Not that one way is worse or better, as an absolute, but we should all recognize that when we step outside of the fascinating and multifaceted HP live journal community, which *is* a community even if we don't actually have the community tag (we have friends lists instead) people will look at us through standards that have little if any relevance to our community.
Of course, I am curious as to what they would make of Cassie's Secret Diaries LJ... with it's near-4000 posts IN her LJ, and the contrast to the approx. 200 posts she's left in others' LJs. Oops! There goes one star - she's clearly not a positive member of the LJ universe...[end edit]
