No, I don't want to join your elitist community... I belong to the Invader Zim community on LJ. Now, one would think that when the community name is "Invader Zim" people would post about... Invader Zim.
Sadly, that has not been the case of late due to a certain "You have to spam to prove you're cool enough to join our community" phenomenon.
First, we get
http://www.livejournal.com/community/invader_zim/944805.html . No one really minded that, the person who posted it took it in humor, a few people suggested a pummelling but everything was generally good.
Then came
http://www.livejournal.com/community/invader_zim/949026.html This time, the warnings about making off-topic posts to promote a community are a bit more harsh. I, like most of the people in the Zim community, don't want their friends lists spammed with ads for shallow LJ communities that require you to spam other communities in order to join. Especially not those of us who check our journals at work and don't exactly think having "GAY AS F**K" splashed in big pink letters around coworkers is a good idea, office politics being as they are. This was brought up to this poster.
Then, we get
http://www.livejournal.com/community/invader_zim/952560.html for the SAME COMMUNITY. Did they completely ignore the first time it happened? Are they just so cool that they can ignore the rest of us, because are obviously "not cool" enough to make the cut? No ackowledgement of complaints was given by original poster. Guess they're too busy being gayer than us to notice that they're annoying.
Why do people (who are old enough to be out of high school, at least) join vanity communities like these? Well, I don't really mind if they do, but why do they feel the need to tell the rest of us about it? Join your vanity community and talk about how cool you are without spamming up my friends list!
-End rant-
Yes, I finally got a journalfen account. You may remember me from other great fandom wanks of the past. I figured this was more of a rant than a wank, at any rate.
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