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[astridv]

The Stargate panels were a big helping of awesome with a cherry on top (the cherry being the shiny Stargate Worlds t-shirt we got. Totally worth missing my copyright seminar over. Richard Dean Anderson is funny as hell. And the Atlantis s5 trailer looked *really* promising!

That is all. (For now)

Oh, oh, fandom. Can't type very well on this keyboard but here's my 2 cents on those things that're making the rounds right now (in bullet point format):
-review != concrit.
-re. partly_bouncy: Oh man, you have no idea how hard it's been not to comment, and if I hadn't been at a clunky hostel keyboard that day, I would've written a lengthy rant, because she's crossed the line from merely obnoxious to vicious and destructive. But I have a feeling that plenty of others have posted on that by now.
-re. fanlib: *points and laughs*

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[newscaper.livejournal.com]

I went to FanHistory and found myself in the Wik, scraped by her bot from FFN.

I wanted to edit my blank Bio to add "Kiss my ass!" but that would have required registering :)

However, I'm leery of some of the "selling out/exploiting fans" rhetoric that borders on the knee-jerk.

I'm not anti-business, far from it.

I have no problem with people making money -- they just need to be up front about it, and deliver some sort of value in return, something more than just a warm fuzzy, while they hope to laugh all the way to the bank.
There needs to be a true mutual benefit, not a fraudulent, parasitic one way street.

She does seem to fall in the latter category ;)

She was probably spouting flattering things about FanLibs prospects because she wanted to look like a player in that space herself.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

> I wanted to edit my blank Bio to add "Kiss my ass!" but that would have required registering :)

'sides, even legitimate edits routinely got users banned.

>However, I'm leery of some of the "selling out/exploiting fans" rhetoric that borders on the knee-jerk.

It's not knee-jerk, not from where I'm standing. Thing is, this didn't start just now, this has been a long time coming and people have been steaming quietly until now. And the information is very throughly gathered, leaving just this conclusion.

>There needs to be a true mutual benefit, not a fraudulent, parasitic one way street.
She does seem to fall in the latter category ;)

Exaclty. She's a destructive influence, instead of contributing to the community. Parasite, that nails it.

Few people will envy Xing any money he's making running ffn; he's doing a hellu job and providing a valuable product. More importantly, he didn't start out to make a profitable site, that's just the way it grew.

Anyway, gotta go to bed, early bus to catch...