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mighty_mouse ([info]mighty_mouse) wrote in [info]clairvoyantwank,
@ 2007-03-13 19:24:00
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Entry tags:try fandom_lounge instead, twop

Bravo has Purchased TWOP

And no one has said anything about this on any of the wank comms? This has so much yummy wank potential! Will they still be able to snark? Will they still be able to be evil in their modding practices? Will all leave the boards, save for twelve year olds who post myspace style?


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[info]doomsday
2007-03-14 12:44 am UTC (link)
But will they allow Real Housewives of Orange County commentary now? I want Real Housewives commentary!

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[info]scourgemonkey
2007-03-14 01:08 am UTC (link)
Wasn't it Bravo and/or Lauri & George's lawyers that got the TWOP boards shut down to begin with?

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[info]hearsawho
2007-03-14 01:12 am UTC (link)
Wait, what? What did I miss?

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(Anonymous)
2007-03-14 01:15 am UTC (link)
It's so embarassing admitting that I've been wank-watching this for so long. If you go here: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/columns/article_1616910.php and scroll down, he's got a series of columns on Real Housewives, and the comment sections are full of wank about TWOP and Bravo censoring comments, whose lawyers are assumed to be responsible and why, and lots of nasty nasty family infighting. It's such a trainwreck.

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[info]scourgemonkey
2007-03-14 01:16 am UTC (link)
Sorry--that was me.

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(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-03-14 05:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]scourgemonkey, 2007-03-14 06:08 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-03-14 06:18 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]scarah2, 2007-03-14 10:38 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]wtf, 2007-03-14 08:41 pm UTC
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[info]doomsday
2007-03-14 01:13 am UTC (link)
I don't know the specifics, I just know there's a sticky on the forums that says not to post about RH because of lawyers.

It makes me sad because TWoP is where I go after watching a show that sends me into fits of "I can't be the only person WTFing over that!" which that show does on a regular basis.

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[info]scourgemonkey
2007-03-14 01:17 am UTC (link)
I posted a link above to a columnist at the OCRegister--I think a lot of the OMGWTF has moved over to his comments section.

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[info]doomsday
2007-03-14 01:22 am UTC (link)
There goes my night. Thanks for the link!

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(no subject) - [info]scourgemonkey, 2007-03-14 01:23 am UTC

[info]evilsqueakers
2007-03-14 02:04 am UTC (link)
Wait, wait. You mean the show that wrapped up for the season tonight? The one that makes me want to cry over the stupidity. *blinks* Jo and Slade made me want to hit the bottle regularly.

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(no subject) - [info]doomsday, 2007-03-14 02:08 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-03-14 02:21 am UTC
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[info]sepiamagpie
2007-03-14 03:54 am UTC (link)
...how can they sue someone for talking about a show?

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(no subject) - [info]hearsawho, 2007-03-14 05:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2007-03-14 01:47 pm UTC

[info]wtf
2007-03-14 01:51 am UTC (link)
:O

No, seriously, :O

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(Anonymous)
2007-03-14 03:40 am UTC (link)
Bravo is owned by NBC Universal, which in turn is owned by General Electric.

INTERESTING.

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[info]glossing2
2007-03-14 01:07 pm UTC (link)
So now the TWOP forums will be PCB dumping grounds?

[insert joke here about not being able to tell the difference]

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(Anonymous)
2007-03-15 02:15 pm UTC (link)
Ah! But GE is owned by the Shinehardt Wig Company. So they're the ones technically pawning TWOP.

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[info]bellona
2007-03-18 07:16 pm UTC (link)
Drive-by 30 Rock love!

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(Anonymous)
2007-03-14 04:36 am UTC (link)
"Snark" is hip these days. Of course they'll mock their own TV shows; it makes them LyKe SeW KEwLZ.

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[info]hearsawho
2007-03-14 05:30 am UTC (link)
That was my thought. Given that the folks behind the TV shows have pretty much embraced TWOP - many of them admitting to reading the recaps and following the forums - TWOP hasn't been anything the networks would truly fear for years.

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[info]squib
2007-03-14 06:36 am UTC (link)
And TWOP doesn't seem all that snarky, either. Just the occasional reciting of "but it's television *without* pity" when someone disagrees with someone else's opinion. I've got such a love/hate relationship with that place-- on one hand, it's the only place to find *any* discussion of a number of obscure reality shows, but on the other, their attitude/elitism/obnoxious modding style drives me batty.

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[info]izzygal
2007-03-14 11:19 am UTC (link)
I so agree. I love reading the recaps and forums but I swear to god if I hear someone say "It's a Raaaaaaaaace" one more time I'll beat their skull in.

*has issues*

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(no subject) - [info]thebratqueen, 2007-03-14 02:26 pm UTC
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[info]txvoodoo
2007-03-14 03:16 pm UTC (link)
You know, I've been wanting to start a reality comm for a LONG TIME now. I'm all over the web usually looking for stuff on Project Runway, Top Chef, TAR etc.

This might kick my ass to do it, because I'm sick of TWoP's sniviling ass-kissing brand of snark, which isn't. And their forums, oy! I've modded forums for a really long time now, and their idea of modding is draconian at BEST.

So yeah - I may start something over on LJ for grown up reality discussion.

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(no subject) - [info]squib, 2007-03-14 05:33 pm UTC
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[info]sesana
2007-03-15 12:53 am UTC (link)
their attitude/elitism/obnoxious modding style drives me batty.

The overzealous modding is probably what drives me most batty about TWoP, and I hated it about FT, too. You can't start a post with "Um" and I think that says it all.

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Is relieved ...
[info]life_on_mars
2007-03-14 03:56 pm UTC (link)
Thank goodness.

Because 'The West Wing' is no longer in production and therefore I no longer frequent TWOP.

If 'In Justice' or '3lbs' had been picked up, I might have been in trouble.

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(Anonymous)
2007-03-14 08:16 pm UTC (link)
Well, the RHOC has been brought up as a concern...

From "TV Tourist": I am a little a worried about this change. Will freedom of snark really continue in the forums under the reign of Bravo? Take The Real Housewives of OC show for instance. Bravo won't allow any negative comments to be posted on its own boards, and TWoP shut down its thread about the show after getting heat from the participants' lawyers. If Bravo is able to exert the same control it exercises over its own boards, the freedom of snark on TWoP's baords may really be in jeopardy.

So I offer a hesitant congratulations.

And Glark's response: Without going into specifics the only thing I can say about all that was that for us (TWoP) it was a legal issue and not a freedom of snark issue (I like that phrase) -- unfortunately this is one of those times it would be nice to tell the whole story but not practical. So my mind is at ease but I appreciate that you don't have the full scoop on this and it's sorta weird.

Take of it what you will.

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3152143&st=105&#entry7387055

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[info]sesana
2007-03-15 12:48 am UTC (link)
If any of you have ever wandered over into the Bravo forums (or indeed, any network's official forums) you'll know exactly what I'm concerned about. *shudders*

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[info]your_face
2007-03-15 03:25 am UTC (link)
Oh god, yes. Wanky collection of people + user-unfriendly forum = professional, apparently. *avoids Project Runway forum at all cost*

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