Entry tags:

author entitlement, fandom: lotr rps, text interrogation: ur doin it wrong, writers are often pompous douches

So I Heard You Like LotRips
Our saga begins with azewewish complaining about the warning system used by lotrips, a community that lists new stories in LotRiPs fandom. Which is fair enough as the moderators define warnings to be anything in the fic that readers should be aware of.

But then it devolves into: OMG STOP LABELLING MY FIC WITH LABELS THAT ARE NOT IN THE HEADER! and MY FIC IS NOT ANGST WHY ARE YOU LABELLING IT ANGST?! and OMG YOU ARE LINKING TO LOCKED POSTS DONT YOU KNOW THAT'S CARDINAL SIN #1 and OMG THE HORROR YOU ARE LISTING WHAT TYPE OF AU A STORY IS! and OMG YOU ARE SPOILING THE STORY

And it wouldn't be fun if there isn't a threat in the whole mess:

Knock if off or stop listing us all. WE are the authors here, NOT you. What WE want people to see about our stories is what WE post in OUR OWN HEADERS. YOUR opinion on what should or shouldn't be there DOESN'T MATTER. Such things about a story is what individual feedback is for, NOT what people should see before they read something!

And another, courtesy of Nverland

As was stated, you have the right to comment, you do not have the right to defame others work by your own opinions. And as such lotrips and msilverstar have both been banned several places already today.

The lotrips posts start here and here. azewewish has a
whatcha guys think about this?' post. LJ's metafandom has a whole slew of links about this bruising of authorial sensibilities here

Fic-labeling and warning wank: can spring and the REVIEWS ARE EBIL chorus be far behind?

(Found on a combination of wank_report and metafandom on LJ. Hat-tip to the 'mouse I'm blatantly swiping it from, and apologies to miraba. Couldn't pass the title up.)

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	esorlehcar 2009-02-24 07:38 am UTC (link)
	It's too bad so much of the better wank was locked down before this made it here. Rampant entitlement is always fun. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	pyratejenni 2009-02-24 07:41 am UTC (link)
	There were a couple links on wank_report that were 403'd. Woefuls. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

esorlehcar
2009-02-24 07:51 am UTC (link)

The main players locked down everything as soon as they realized the general reaction was, "Wow, you're batshit." Which is a shame -- there was some quality stuff there, including accusing

msilverstar of being a tinhat and claiming that she's the entitled one for running her comm the way she wants instead of promptly changing it to suit them.

But hey, points for actually creating a "rival" comm instead of just bitching, and not just because the fact that we'll be able to hear the screaming from space the moment anyone suggests they should do anything differently on their comm amuses me greatly.

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	prolific 2009-02-24 08:00 am UTC (link)
	They also said she clearly had obsessive compulsive disorder because of how overly detailed her labels were. Classy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sorchar 2009-02-24 08:44 am UTC (link)
	urge to kill rising Armchair psychology and misunderstanding the nature of OCD, my two favorite things! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	adevyish 2009-02-24 10:17 am UTC (link)
	I definitely need to keep these people away from my sorting system with separate AU tags for diverging at different points in canon >> (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aerobot 2009-02-24 12:52 pm UTC (link)
	eyetwitch (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2009-02-24 04:05 pm UTC (link)
	Oh good I'm not the only one that comment is causing a twitch for. (your icon, however, is somehow making things better...) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	brennalarose 2009-02-24 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	twitch, spaz Really? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snacky 2009-02-24 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	That was pretty gross. I'm kind of torn - I'm glad they locked it because it was a really awful thing to do to msilverstar, but on the other hand, it was really a nice shining beacon of hypocritical batshit, so too bad for that loss. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pyratejenni 2009-02-24 08:08 am UTC (link)
	o.O Damn, we missed the real crazy! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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