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

[farla.livejournal.com]

That's what it means to me too! But I know Act and I don't work together at a literary minded Dairy Queen, so I realize it's got to be the other DQ.

Maybe it's just me, but in regards to this entire dilemma, wouldn't it prove educational to converse with authors if they discovered sporkings of their work?

Noooot if you're adverse to conflict. I'm not entirely clear on if even this was too stressful for them or if they acted in fear it'd get worse, but clearly the people involved at least took issue with how mean I was in my comments to the sporker, and it's really unlikely most authors would be more polite unless they show up to just say that wow the sporker is so right and great.

And I can sympathize with that - there's a certain amount of acclimation required before you can handle conflict, and even then it's not going to be a fun affair. The problem is that kind of temperament isn't suited to either modding or sporking, let alone modding a spork comm. With fanfic especially, you can't keep a clear divide between how you talk to people to their face and how you talk about people behind their back, so it ends up being us/them - this person is a sporker, don't say anything that'll hurt their feelings. This person isn't, so they're an okay target for criticism.

The fact some of the sporkers are now rending their hair at the idea of their sporks being judged at all shows this is not viable. You can't run something based on the idea of criticizing bad writing and say your members are exempt from it, but it's obvious a lot of the community members wouldn't be able to handle it and it'll just be the same sort of eggshell criticism wrapped in a million layers of praise you get in closed fic communities where the most important thing is how friendly and nice everyone is.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

But I know Act and I don't work together at a literary minded Dairy Queen

New life goal acquired.