Well, that went better than it could!

[farla]

Managed oddly reasonable discussion on the spork for a surprising while before someone summoned a mod who froze the whole thing because I was picking a fight by being there. Edit: link fixed. Dammit, me.

Edit the second:

It's not against the rules for you to comment here, unless you are picking fights or send people do to so for you. I'm not sure if you linking the spork back in your own journal is technically breaking the rules, so I will let Merv decide on that.

Jesus christ, this is just sad now.

Edit the third:

Yep, the only problem is whatever terrible, terrible person who told me, curse their evil troll heart and their hatred for all that is good. Even though I was already aware of the comm and would've found out no matter what.

Comments

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

Does no one realize how much overlap there is between das and DQ? At least one of the mods, zelda_queen, frequents both, so that you may peek in on das should surprise absolutely no one.

This is why posts should be moderated; someone should have immediately caught that.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I'm really starting to wonder what exactly is going on.

The problem wasn't sporking my work. It wasn't even especially that it was getting sporked badly. Even intervening over the way the spork was crawling up its own ass about what the magic eight ball said my thoughts were didn't go terribly - the worst behavior so far is the mod blaming me, saying they'll graciously hold off banning me unilaterally and wait for an okay from a co-mod, saying they'll consult to see if they can ban me on the "technical rulebreaking" of me putting a link about me in my journal and thus linking sporkee to spork, then the official post of "shit everybody play dead Quirrel brought a troll into Hogwarts, mods discussing how to handle this this terrible turn of affairs".

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

The most bizarre thing was the insistence that they can tell you what you are and aren't allowed to link to in your own LJ. I just... don't even.

[farla.livejournal.com]

THE THIRD RULE OF FIGHT CLUB IS STILL THAT YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!

It seems like the rule isn't about not trolling the authors but not letting anyone at all outside the approved circle even find out about this stuff. Which is looking an awful lot like locked fic comms to prevent the haters from saying anything, only they are the haters, so wtf?

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

Well, that's what it's turned into, hasn't it? With no quality control and an environment in which quality has never before been an issue, the idea that a spork could be as badly done as a fic has become just as taboo as the idea that you can spork a fic. All we're seeing play out is fanbrat wank on a meta level. It's even hitting all the same bingo points: you're the borg queen, I'm your sockpuppet, you're just a troll there to stir up trouble, you only want the internet to conform to your standards, etc.

edit: Ah, Mervin's response to you was reassuringly sane. Faith restored for the time being.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Hopefully this is all just a matter of no one having time to look at it originally and now they're playing catchup.

[wintersheir]

This is an astoundingly strange interpretation of the rule. Like not deliberately going to the author with a link is a good rule-- while it is lulzy, it can be a headache for mods and might (?) be able to get a comm in trouble. But banning the author for seeing it themselves and engaging in non-wanky discussion? Woooooow.