I CANNOT IMAGINE HOW THIS COULD GO WRONG
Feb. 2nd, 2008 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
farlaSo hey, Lj just added a new feature, and I just checked out entertainment. Second post is
News for Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 || Volume XXVIII,…
Fanfiction
Final Fantasy VII Compilation
Original Game
darkelanor: Forrest Green Wheelchair (Prologue) (Vincent/Yuffie) (NC17)
dev_chieftain: Possession (Cloud/Sephiroth/Zack) (PG13)
hopingly: Snow on the Sahara (Cloud/OC) (NC17) (AU)
queenoftheskies: …
The important thing about the mighty intertubes is filtering. Not simply that you personally filter out things you don't want, but that the internet basically comes pre-filtered. To get from "entertainment" to "NC-17 fanfic with videogame characters" normally takes quite a number of steps for anyone who doesn't know about it. Most of the time, if you aren't the sort of person who's okay with it, you'll be distracted by, say, the other link bringing you to flash games of fighting stick figures ten steps before you reach fanfic of any kind. This doesn't just apply to fanfic - I usually ignore the various communities based around beating children or fantasizing about beating parents for having children or whatever other stuff I don't care about.
Personally, I think this new feature is kind of cool - it's a way of remixing the normally well filtered content that we find through networks of likeminded people, exposing it to the uninitiated. But I think it's kind of cool in the same way I think Fanlib's ongoing fiasco is, or fireworks, which is to say I expect explosions.
Unless this means people start locking more stuff, at which point I will become enraged and violent.
News for Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 || Volume XXVIII,…
Fanfiction
Final Fantasy VII Compilation
Original Game
darkelanor: Forrest Green Wheelchair (Prologue) (Vincent/Yuffie) (NC17)
dev_chieftain: Possession (Cloud/Sephiroth/Zack) (PG13)
hopingly: Snow on the Sahara (Cloud/OC) (NC17) (AU)
queenoftheskies: …
The important thing about the mighty intertubes is filtering. Not simply that you personally filter out things you don't want, but that the internet basically comes pre-filtered. To get from "entertainment" to "NC-17 fanfic with videogame characters" normally takes quite a number of steps for anyone who doesn't know about it. Most of the time, if you aren't the sort of person who's okay with it, you'll be distracted by, say, the other link bringing you to flash games of fighting stick figures ten steps before you reach fanfic of any kind. This doesn't just apply to fanfic - I usually ignore the various communities based around beating children or fantasizing about beating parents for having children or whatever other stuff I don't care about.
Personally, I think this new feature is kind of cool - it's a way of remixing the normally well filtered content that we find through networks of likeminded people, exposing it to the uninitiated. But I think it's kind of cool in the same way I think Fanlib's ongoing fiasco is, or fireworks, which is to say I expect explosions.
Unless this means people start locking more stuff, at which point I will become enraged and violent.
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Date: 2008-02-03 05:40 pm (UTC)The other danger, of course, is that this will bring more things to the attention of people like Warriors for Innocence. Not another Strikethrough, please.
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Date: 2008-02-03 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-03 06:18 pm (UTC)...The paranoid conspiracy is, did they just introduce it for everybody to hide their true motives, or are they planning to use the English-speaking branch to help refine their sorting program and make it more accurate?