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12:41pm: Alfonso Cuaron, we know better than you!!
Good God, HP Fandom! Aren't you tired yet?

It looks as if the "Sidekicks", a group of rabid Ron/Hermione shippers have started a petition to make sure that Prisoner of Azkaban Director Alfonso Cuaron doesn't cut the all important Ron/Hermione hug from the movie.

They are worried. My God, what will happen if Ron and Hermione don't hug? Then we'd be left with nothing but an action packed movie by one of the best directors around.

Yes, lets make a huge petition to make the director leave in the hug. I'm sure that will change his mind. He should know better then to defy the nutty shippers.

Best line: We, the undersigned, petition the Executive Production team of 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' to keep this lovely moment, "The Hug", in the movie, thus retaining the dramatic narrative as portrayed in JK Rowling's fantastic book intact, and vastly increasing our enjoyment of the finished article.

*chokes by laughing too hard*

HP Fandom, why aren't you taking your Prozac??

3:04pm: Fandom Scruples is at it again, now deciding that legal action is needed for websites that don't comply with their views on protecting the children.

We have compiled evidence against several websites who have knowingly violated this law.

We believe everyone is responsible for the social welfare of children online and that website owners can easily provide adult authentication access for free or for a fee to adults.

There are no excuses. We have come to a decision that we will give websites two weeks to comply with COPA or we will report them to a federal agency that we have sought advice from.

Of course, you can't comment in that entry, only boggle at their behaviour.

7:24pm: Bad RPers Wangst!!
Bad RPers wangst!

I submit my own community for wanking, based upon the following post:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/bad_rpers_suck/316213.html

Enjoy. Can't really give a summary of the action. It's something you have to read all the way through to believe, but it goes something like this:

"OMG TEH MOD WUZ SOOO MENE 2 ME!"
"OMG WhaT a bEyOTCH!"
"K IM gonnA post this 2 bad RPers!"

And the poor, tragically deluded original poster received quite a beating before she was banned. Now all is well.

-- Sarah

7:48pm: fandom_scruples is now reachable for comment. Ha!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/elance/290079.html

The lovely E has gifted LJ user fandom_scruples with two months of paid account. fandom_scruples@livejournal.com

[edit @ around 9 pm my time: and fandom_scruples has been reported to LJ admin for extortion. ]

[son of the edit: Links to some of the reports to LJ admin are in comments here and elsewhere. Please post your own reports of extortion to LJ admin in comments here, with a subject line clearly identifying them as such. All for documentation purposes, natch.

Furthermore, LJ admin's current position is that f_s's actions haven't yet been against TOS, and that they aren't responsible for f_s's actions on other sites. Debate over this has been going on as we speak; no definitive conclusion has yet been reached.]

[bastard second offspring of the edit @ 9:55 pm my time: LJ admin are closing support requests from those who won't take "fandom_scruples hasn't actually violated the TOS" as an answer. Which says good things for LJ's support of free speech, which means that LJ won't likely target those with smut in their journals if f_s gets all uppity at them, but bad for justice being served on f_s. And for the record, E and her husband absolutely do not support mounting a massive spam campaign on fandom_scruples's inbox at all. No.]

[grandson of the edit @ 10:07 pm my time: Please, feel free to archive the entire text of the exchange between you and LJ support regarding f_s, neatly labeled for our enjoyment, lest it disappear because LJ considers it too, too wanky. And they are making them disappear. ]

[illegitimate grandson of the edit @ 11:42 pm my time: Looks like LJ support/abuse is getting slammed with this issue. As a part-time volunteer, I really can't condone making their lives too miserable. Unless you're actually *on* the blacklist, or have reason to believe that you are among the people that fandom_scruples is threatening to bring the Wrath of US Law down upon, try not to get involved over there. And do please be polite to Support/Abuse. No need to make us look like asshats, just concerned netizens worried that f_s plans to defy the LJ TOS and attempt to collect personally identifiable information about LJ users (stalking).]

[edit without a clever name @ 12:07 am Tuesday: COPA is not COPPA. COPA, which f_s is arguing based on, was overturned. COPPA is about the collection of personally identifiable information about kids, and is still in force. COPA is about the objectionable material. ]

[edit again, still without a witty name @ 1:34 am Tuesday: Now that LJ Abuse has been notified and given their response, and fandom_scruples@livejournal.com has been thoroughly e-mailed, and everyone's calmed down about the proceedings... Until fandom_scruples makes their next move (which I have no doubt that they'll do) it looks like it's all over but the inevitable review on http://www.ljdrama.org and the repercussions being played out in fannish circles all over the 'net. ]

[edit again again @ 1:52: In case f_w makes those entries that prompted this wank private, I've duplicated them in comments here. ]