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strike a match to incinerate ([info]deconcentrate) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2006-11-17 04:59:00


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Current mood:Fan-Fucking-tastic
Current music:The Smiths, "Nowhere Fast"
Entry tags:community: bad_rpers_suck, rp

I think she'd give Richard Hatch a run for his money, what do you think?
Howdy, folks. I'm here to tell a story of a lovely little place called [info]the_blank_slate and a little girl named [info]jainieg who recently got voted off the island.

Bear in mind, I think before today I only heard of [info]the_blank_slate once, when I think I stumbled across the journal for their Artemis Fowl. I think the proper name for it is "Tabula Rasa," and it's sort of like LOST or "Survivor," what with the whole mysteriously stranded on a deserted or not-so-deserted island feel going on.

Anyway, so [info]jainieg plays Shane from The L Word over at Tabula Rasa, and all is sunshine and rainbows and excessive melodrama (because, apparently, excessive melodrama follows Shane around like a little lost puppy begging for its pettings), until . . . well, I'm not sure, really, but there's something about the excessive melodrama being way too excessive for several other players' tastes. Apparently, the complaints were enough to bring together all of the mods for Tabula Rasa, and they descended, hordelike, upon poor unsuspecting [info]jainieg, or at least, that's how she took it.

The OP is wanky enough all on its own, really. Choice bits include (FYI, the "Me"s in the quoted text are not me, they are [info]jainieg - I'm just too lazy to replace them):

Barely into the conversation between the OP and the mods, we have the "it's a personal vendetta!" card being played:

V: From what our own experience with the canon suggests, and from the complaints of other muns, we simply can't agree with you. I know this is a terrible conversation to have to have, and it's unpleasant to ever need to question a mun.
Me: Okay, whoa.
V: about characterization. We wouldn't ask you here if we didn't feel we had reason.
Me: The only person that I know of who knows [my character's] canon of the muns? Is A.
Me: And I know she has issues with me, so I refuse to accept any statement in regards to MY CHARACTERIZATION of my character.
Me: from her.


One can be forgiven for assuming that even if [info]jainieg is being a bit over-the-top with her protestations that A is so at fault, it's safe to say that it doesn't take her very long afterwards to cross the line into complete batshit loco territory:

Me: Well, I'm sorry, but that's my choice.
Me: not yours.
Me: She's my character.
Me: You don't get to dictate to me as a mod what my character does.
A: Ah, but it is our game.
V: Then I'm afraid we will have to ask you to remove yourself from the game.
Me: You cannot ask me to do that.
Me: I will make SUCH a stink, you will have never heard the likes of it before, I guarantee you.
A: We just did.
A: Have fun.
V: You astound me, a bit.


It's kind of beautiful that she thinks threats will work when she's outnumbered five to one, and especially when all five of the people she's threatening are moderators.

Of course, [info]jainieg proceeds to pull the "It's my character, I'll wank if I want to!" card, and as expected, rolls a natural 1:

Me: You astound me! Where the hell do you people get off telling another player how to play her character?
Me: And deny my application from another character from [my character's same canon] because it might affect [my primary char's] development. Who are you to say?! You're not her mun! I am!
V: I'm sorry, but this is your noticing of banning. I truly wish you had shown a little more interest in your own preservation, but none of us can possible condone such terrible behavior.
Me: What, not allowing myself to be pushed aroudn?
Me: And be dictated to about how I play my own character?
Me: Who, I will have you know, I have been playing for nearly 3 years.
Me: Would any of you put up with that? Being told how to play your character? I think not.
V: When enough other muns complain, we take action. Again, I'm sorry we could reach no compromise.
Me: There's no compromise to reach. She's my character. Characterization shouldn't be a question of majority rules.
Me: A player shouldn't have to compromise her character or characterization.
J: when the character is taking away from the quality of the game and enjoyment of other muns, it becomes a concern.


The OP seems to have a slight problem comprehending basic english:

C: I'll repeat, in case you missed it before, this doesn't come from A.
Me: Oh, I'd say it does.
C: Well you'd be wrong.


And as if that wasn't the crowning gem of wank in an already wanky post, we get bonus "I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I?" finger-pointing, couresty of "S" and the OP:

S: And there is absolutely no reason on making this a personal attack on A when we're all in agreement on this. Your behaviour in this chat alone is absolutely unacceptable
Me: Well, you know what? I think your behavior is unacceptable.


The post is really enough to earn admission into the annals of wank history, but the comments are like icing on an already-wank-filled cake. Just the first few comments alone are worth the price of admission.

[info]buongiornodaisy: I used to mod that game. It's nice to see not much has changed!

[info]iczer6: So when the mods politely ask you to discuss your characterization you're reaction is to demand to know who has the problem and then to refuse to listen to anything they say and you start blaming another player as well.

And you are *surprised* that they kicked you out?

You were the one who was belligerent, you were the one who refused to listen, you were the one who threatened to 'raise a stink' if you didn't get your way.

There's bad Rping here, but it's not from the mods.


[info]jadecanary: Did you actually post this looking for sympathy? Because you come across as a real psychopath.

I'm too lazy and/or tired to unfold the massive comments trees on this post, so you'll forgive me if I skim this puppy.

"I'm having a very bad time in my life-"

[info]quicksilvered: Wow. Someone give those MODS a cookie. I wouldn't want you in any game I'm in, with an attitude like that.
[info]jainieg: I will have you know that I only just experienced this situation and I am still terribly stunned and upset by it. I've also been going through an exceedingly stressful time in my life, as I mentioned at the top of the post. I believe myself to be an exceptional role-player and have posted here frequently reporting on bad rp. I don't flip out without cause.
[info]quicksilvered: Riiiight, because frequently reporting "bad RP" makes me think you're sane.
[info]dispassion: I have a violin. Would you like to play a sad song?

"-and don't try bringing any of that Earth logic into this, you meanies!"

[info]zenostortoise: If you're trying to use the fact that it "just happened" as an excuse for being melodramatic, maybe you should have waited a little while before posting it.

"I'm so special, look at how few people like my show! Aren't I awesome for playing in a fandom nobody wants to be in?"

[info]jainieg: Actually, in a game of a thousand members, of all the most active ones? Barely four or five of them had seen the show, that I know of. 'Cause it's seriously not that popular, yet. It's still very much a fledgling fandom online.

Originally, when I started writing this up, the OP had a biiiig, blatant LINK pointing VERY OBVIOUSLY right at [info]the_blank_slate and wasn't making any moves towards hiding it. Several comments very politely pointed out to her that she was being a big bitch for doing so, and the link is now gone, but not before everyone and their blind mother saw it and had to mention it in a comment.

[info]cluudle: Point the first: any argument that includes 'you can't do that! I'll tell!' loses validity rather - well, rather fast.

Point the second: that you actually went and told after that, well, that's a whole new level of special.

Point the third: Venting is very well. Linking to the community in question is not. That's crass and being a dramallama. I would suggest that if you want to be taken seriously, you might consider removing the link and simply posting about how frustrating these mods were.


[info]makeshyft has to win some kind of award for how much they miss the point with this comment (unless the missing the point is intentional, in which case it's still hilarious, just intentionally so): Venting on BadRP is kinda like suicide or masterbation..

And then, at the end, it's some kind of wank extravaganza, as [info]deathstardisco stomps in with waders on and decides since she just went through something similar she's got every right to tell [Bad username: jainieg"] where to stick it, and [info]jainieg gets petulant and shovy right back, and oh, it's all so immature and bitchy, I think I'm in love.

[info]deathstardisco: Princess, the game doesn't revolve around you. Step off your fucking high horse, and and get your head out of your ass. They had every right to ban you, and you have no right to come here and talk shit. This just proves what an entitlement whore you are.
[info]jainieg: Fuck you, you self-important ass. You obviously haven't read any of my other comments that go into the backstory about this whole situation. One of the mods was biased unfairly against me because she has no concept of IC/OOC.

I know the game doesn't revolve around me and I'm not expecting it to, but what you don't realize -- because you'd much rather try to take me down a peg rather than read and attempt to comprehend the full scope of what's going on here -- is that my character was alienated and was playing with two other characters and that was it. She was NOT a distraction, she was not a nuisance to others, she was not dramawhoring all over the place. In point of fact? I hadn't actually posted anything with her in four days when this whole thing went down. The only one who felt I was being a disruptive influence was mod A, because my character was no longer involved with hers.

[info]deathstardisco: Really? I'm the self-important ass? I'm not the one running around crying becuase, oh no, the mods asked me to tone a storyline down. For one, I don't really feel like weeding through the comments of you repeating yourself over and over and refusing to listen to the people who, horror of horrors, disagree with you on the fact that the mods were out to get you. You say one of the mods -- but I can see all of them up there telling you that 1: This has nothing to do with her, and 2: None of them are happy with how you play. A doesn't even -talk- very much during the course of the conversation. So, going with logic, here, I'm more inclined to believe that what they're saying is true, than what you're presenting me with, which is "Mod A brainwashed the other mods and the whole game to hate me, OH NOES D:".

I love the smell of grudgewank in the morning.

Edit: For the record, [info]damienraptore posted this wank already, but by the time I noticed, I'd already hit "submit". So now you have two, two wank reports for the price of one! Ha! Ha!

. . . seriously, I have no idea what to do about that, but I honestly didn't intend to report something that's already been wanked, so if the mods say I should take it down, I will.

Bride of Edit: Apparently [info]jainieg really doesn't like being told she's wrong, because as [info]beanarie helpfully points out right here in a reaction rant, comments have been disabled. Guess that'll show us for daring to disagree with her opinion of the situation, won't it!

Okay, everybody who's been 'capping this wank from the start, show me whatcha got! Because I uh . . . forgot to take any 'caps. Whups.



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[info]itsirtou
2006-11-17 04:19 pm UTC (link)
Ummmm...is this the same wank as the wank below it? Either that or I've got double vision this morning.

(I knew it sounded familiar!)

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[info]kadath
2006-11-17 05:18 pm UTC (link)
Judging by the comments in the other post, two writeups of the same wank went into the mod queue at about the same time.

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[info]deconcentrate
2006-11-17 08:35 pm UTC (link)
. . . why yes it is! It wasn't quite submitting at the same time, but it was definitely a case of me not seeing the previous report till it was too late.

I certainly didn't expect it to get approved once I noticed that someone else had already written it up, but by that point I'd already submitted it.

I was expecting rejection, but to see that it showed up in spite of being reported before gets me all tingly inside.

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sockpuppet_rat
2006-11-17 04:25 pm UTC (link)
I think I love you! By damn, this is entertaining.

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[info]willywanka
2006-11-17 04:42 pm UTC (link)
You're not her mun! I am!

You can't talk about my child that way, she's beautiful and delicate and unique in her snowflake-y way! Yeah I read 'mun' as 'mum'.

Me: I will make SUCH a stink, you will have never heard the likes of it before, I guarantee you.
A: We just did.
A: Have fun.


I love it when mods do that. Very hot.

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[info]beccastareyes
2006-11-17 04:53 pm UTC (link)
Given the way some people seem to treat the characters they write/RP/fangirl, I don't think the comparison is too far off.

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[info]vanilla_tiger
2006-11-17 09:23 pm UTC (link)
That makes more sense than my misreading it as 'nun'. Crested some interesting mental images.

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(no subject) - [info]vanilla_tiger, 2006-11-17 09:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]deconcentrate, 2006-11-17 09:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]chartyhoax, 2006-11-18 02:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]blue_penguin, 2006-11-18 03:03 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]radical_edward, 2006-11-18 07:38 am UTC

[info]wanktastic
2006-11-17 04:55 pm UTC (link)
Someone already posted this wank. Right below yours, in fact.

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[info]deconcentrate
2006-11-17 08:39 pm UTC (link)
Yes, but I only saw that they'd done so after I'd already submitted the report. I commented to say as much in that post.

So if you want to take issue with it, uh. It;s not my fault, I honestly didn't know when I hit send that it had already been posted, and the mods approved it to post while I was asleep. Which kind of surprised me, but maybe I wasn't the only one who didn't see the first report, is all I can assume.

I have no idea what the proper etiquette is for this sort of thing. :/

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[info]flowerstar
2006-11-17 05:00 pm UTC (link)
Wasn't this posted before? But I like this version better anyway- it has all the crazy alreday here, so I don't have to go over there and wade through it.
... Why, yes, I'm a lazy ass.

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[info]flowerstar
2006-11-17 05:02 pm UTC (link)
*already. I spell guuuud.

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[info]deconcentrate
2006-11-17 08:41 pm UTC (link)
Hurrah! All that time I spent writing this up did have a use after all! Now I feel quite as much like an idiot for not seeing the first report as I did earlier.

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(no subject) - [info]flowerstar, 2006-11-17 08:51 pm UTC

[info]haunted
2006-11-17 05:44 pm UTC (link)
You missed my favorite part.

Me: I don't have to go any damn where.
Me: This is an AOL-based chat, I can stay as long as I please.
V: Stay as long as you like, then.
*** V has left the chat.
*** C has left the chat.
*** S has left the chat.
*** A has left the chat.
*** CJ has left the chat

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[info]jat_sapphire
2006-11-17 05:51 pm UTC (link)
I loved that too. I especially loved that she included it in her post, so we could all see the mods making her look like a complete idiot.

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(no subject) - [info]haunted, 2006-11-17 05:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]deconcentrate, 2006-11-17 08:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - iwanttobeasleep, 2006-11-17 08:58 pm UTC
An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]maureenlycaon, 2006-11-17 09:04 pm UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]deconcentrate, 2006-11-17 09:07 pm UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - iwanttobeasleep, 2006-11-17 11:37 pm UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]seiberwing, 2006-11-18 12:42 am UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]willywanka, 2006-11-18 01:14 am UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]seiberwing, 2006-11-18 01:16 am UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]maureenlycaon, 2006-11-18 02:30 am UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]evilsqueakers, 2006-11-18 02:48 am UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]issendai, 2006-11-18 07:37 am UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]maureenlycaon, 2006-11-18 02:33 pm UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]luthe, 2006-11-18 09:16 am UTC
Re: An armchair psychologist rides again . . . - [info]maureenlycaon, 2006-11-18 02:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]brown_betty, 2006-11-18 12:04 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]haunted, 2006-11-17 05:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]skarrow, 2006-11-18 02:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dhaunea, 2006-11-18 04:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]skarrow, 2006-11-19 12:49 am UTC

[info]southerngaelic
2006-11-17 07:46 pm UTC (link)
"Dramallama" is my new favourite word. :D

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(no subject) - [info]rachelmap, 2006-11-18 02:55 am UTC
Completely OT - [info]lukita, 2006-11-18 06:54 am UTC

[info]phosfate
2006-11-17 09:06 pm UTC (link)
if the mods say I should take it down, I will.


Nah. It's fine.

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(no subject) - [info]deconcentrate, 2006-11-17 09:09 pm UTC

[info]enoh
2006-11-17 10:30 pm UTC (link)
What makes this really great is that, in my head, all the mods are speaking with the Arc voice while the op sounds like early first season Mina at her worst.

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[info]jat_sapphire
2006-11-18 12:42 am UTC (link)
When I first saw this (back in the other wank report), I thought, why on earth didn't she apply as Jenny to start with? Because in canon, Jenny really is a whiny, self-absorbed dramallama who gets into relationships with people only to crash and burn with maximum angst, plus she writes grim emo purply-prose "fiction," so she seems a perfect pup for this mun.

While poor Shane is the perfectly fine character who gets endlessly Sue-ized in fic and made into a fragile special snowflake whom no one properly understands.*

*Well, in the few fics I read before I clicked away screaming. There ought to be good L-Word fanfic, but I sure couldn't find it.

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(no subject) - [info]keri, 2006-11-18 09:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jat_sapphire, 2006-11-18 09:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]keri, 2006-11-18 10:08 pm UTC

[info]janegraddell
2006-11-18 02:50 am UTC (link)
Wow. Laziness is a virtue. I left jainieg's original bad_rpers_suck post open and unfolded this morning for later reading (pets Greasemonkey), so I have at least some of the comments. I don't, however, have any good webspace for them (and it would take a *lot* of screencaps). If anyone wants to host them, I can e-mail the files to you.

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(no subject) - [info]explosivefun, 2006-11-18 04:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]becky_h, 2006-11-18 08:04 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]janegraddell, 2006-11-18 03:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]becky_h, 2006-11-18 04:03 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]janegraddell, 2006-11-18 04:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]becky_h, 2006-11-18 04:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - iwanttobeasleep, 2006-11-18 08:28 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]janegraddell, 2006-11-18 03:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]janegraddell, 2006-11-18 04:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]janegraddell, 2006-11-18 04:49 pm UTC

[info]smo
2006-11-18 03:27 am UTC (link)
And now she's disabled comments. Because apparently she thought we'd like a wank-aperitif to go with our piece of wank-cake.

I will have you know that I only just experienced this situation and I am still terribly stunned and upset by it.

IT'S AN RPG. GET THE FUCK OVER IT.

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(no subject) - [info]dhaunea, 2006-11-18 04:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-11-18 07:02 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dhaunea, 2006-11-18 07:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-11-18 07:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]marumae, 2006-11-18 05:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rhi_silverflame, 2006-11-18 07:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-11-18 07:19 am UTC
(no subject) - iwanttobeasleep, 2006-11-18 08:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rhi_silverflame, 2006-11-18 08:57 am UTC

[info]dhaunea
2006-11-18 04:24 am UTC (link)
Okay, hold the phone... I know this OP. She played in a very large game I was admin for. This same character, even.

I... I must go lie down and laugh hysterically until I die now.

MUST NOT WANK! MUST NOT WANK!!!!!!

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(no subject) - [info]rhi_silverflame, 2006-11-18 06:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dhaunea, 2006-11-18 07:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rhi_silverflame, 2006-11-18 07:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]vampychick, 2006-11-18 07:28 am UTC
(no subject) - iwanttobeasleep, 2006-11-18 08:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dhaunea, 2006-11-18 08:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]notjo, 2006-11-18 05:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dhaunea, 2006-11-18 05:31 pm UTC

[info]scarah2
2006-11-18 07:16 am UTC (link)
I hate the word "mun."

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(no subject) - [info]marks, 2006-11-18 06:40 pm UTC

[info]evanwaters
2006-11-18 07:25 am UTC (link)
Am I the only one who kinda sees her side of it?

No, guys, wait, come back.

What I mean is- it seems they went right to the "change how you RP or leave" bit, which strikes me as a tad dogmatic when dealing with a poster who wasn't, I dunno, making PAs left and right (yet, anyway) or being generally abusive, just being, in their opinion, OOC.

Granted, the lack of any specific examples of what they classed as OOC behavior makes it difficult to say. But- seems just a bit strict, no?

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-11-18 07:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]radical_edward, 2006-11-18 07:58 am UTC
(no subject) - iwanttobeasleep, 2006-11-18 08:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]skarrow, 2006-11-18 11:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]bitterbyrden, 2006-11-19 09:41 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]inara, 2006-11-19 02:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]loopywafflehead, 2006-11-19 01:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-11-20 12:47 am UTC

[info]prettyveela
2006-11-20 01:47 am UTC (link)
Ok first of all The L Word has a nice size fandom thankuverymuch. Second of all just reading a bit of how she played Shane's character makes me want to throw up in my mouth a bit.

Is it ok to have grossly OOC characters on the blank state? I know a few people in my friends list on it but never asked.

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(no subject) - [info]halogirl, 2006-11-20 03:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]calliope14, 2006-11-20 01:33 pm UTC

[info]ellenore
2006-11-26 02:39 am UTC (link)
I think she's still roleplaying- whiney, wanky Shane is completely in character with the show.

Observe.

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