Mock. Mockmockmock. Mockity-mock-mock

12:10am: The Day The Moderator Lost Her Mind
This is a one-person wank, but oh. Is it ever wanky.

Over on Greatest Journal, there lives a community called playersresource. This community existed as a place for roleplayers to advertise themselves, looking for a game that wants them. And on this community, there lived a moderator named sirius. And one day, sirius got fed up with the universal law of communities: someone will violate the posting rules.


Phase one:

How our hero decided to solve her problem was this: she made an angry post (since deleted) stating that she was deleting every single post in the community (besides hers). She also said that she was "no longer providing a service." Mind you, the majority of the posts followed the rules.

Back in August, Sirius deleted the entire membership list of the community, so she has a pattern of taking out her anger at a handful of members on the entire community.

During the mass post deletion, at least two (eta: replacement) pimping communities were created.


Phase two:

The next day, all the player advertisements are gone. Sirius then deletes her post where she said she was shutting down, and posts another post where she tries to laugh off the mass deletion and said the community wasn't closing.


Phase three:

Now the most recent public post says this:

All posts from now on will be friends only. If I see the number of replies declines because of this, I will obviously make it so you can choose if your entries will be friends only or not. You can always go back and change your entry to public after you post it in the meantime. I won't get pissed off about stupid things of that nature.

By the way, we have not closed. All I did was close posting for a few hours so the community could be cleaned out. Why? I don't know. I'm a bit weird and insane like that. I can tell you that I will probably take the community off of moderated soon since I hate getting those email notices. Maybe I'll just assigned mods. I know of one person I want as a mod, but feel free to "apply."

Note the wank-friendly content: she acts like deleting the posts of everyone else in the community is not, say, unusual or mean; and she has instituted a counterproductive "friends-only" policy.

I bet there's more; I just haven't bothered looking for related wank on other journals.


ETA: OH OH OH. http://www.greatestjournal.com/community/playersresource/193014.html?thread=2040054#t2040054 I smell trouble.



ETA: phase four

The post mentioned in phase three was deleted, and replaced with a post (paraphrased here) that said "if no one starts posting in here by Sunday, I'm closing this community."

An anonymouse graciously screencapped this lovely exchange: http://pictures.greatestjournal.com/userimg/2690618/143173


phase five:

The whole community was deleted!


replacement communities

Okay, there have been a few comments from people asking for replacement communities. Here are all the ones I know about: hp_peoplesearch, hp_personals, pimp_it_playah, playerresource (note: no "s"), players_wanted, playerseeksrpg and ygo_rpers all take ads from players seeking rpgs. Some are multifandom, some are single fandom. If you know of any others, leave a comment and I'll add them.

5:03pm: Stalking, Hitler, bannings...Oh my!
A recent catfight brawl has broken out in the normally serene Starsky & Hutch fandom - my main fandom.

Two fans, Cyn and Helene, have had the nerve to question or make fun of everyone (including such BNF's as Flamingo and Suzan Lovett).

Cyn and Helene challenge other S&H fans' judgment, scruples, writing skills, their ability to publish zines, hold conventions, sing songs at conventions, create artwork, etc. The wank never ends.

It's gotten so bad that one person even broke Godwin's Law calling the two women "mini Hitlers" on the S/H Venice Place list. (Wait it gets better, it seems that Cyn actually is related to a former Nazi - her grandfather - and she took offense to that comment.)

The uproar began when Cyn created a new S/H mailing list called SHFandomcircle.

The groups's purpose, you ask? "This group is dedicated to Starsky Hutch and the fandom which has sprung from it. Here you can post stories, talk about other lists, other fans, snark about the fandom, review stories and just about whatever happens to cross your mind at any given moment. I'm just a mod. I'm not a fandom queen, I'm not a zine publisher or a zine editor. I'm not even a beta. I'm just a fan who is very opinionated and enjoys a good discussion...

Names can be named and no one is looking to force someone to go with the rest of the crowd. Cursing is welcomed and encouraged if venting is needed. This is a place to speak your mind even if you believe it to be an unpopular viewpoint."

However, it seems the only snarking that can be done on the new list is by the list admin and her unnamed co-moderator, Helene. While there are tons of wanky moments in their mailing list archive, it seems recent battle(s) spawned a 'parody' story.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cynatnite/4470.html

In this thread, Cyn writes a story that mocks and defames most of the fandom and it's main mailing list (Venice Place), including said owner of that list and many long-time S/H fans, so when people show up to lodge their complaints, Cyn calls S/H fans "stupid."

However the funniest part is when an anonymous writer posts an
epilogue to Cyn's story. In it Cyn and Helene's 'characters' (Thelma and Louise) are killed off.


Cyn cries foul, you stole my story! Plagiarist!

And what's a good wank without anonymous mouse post?

Finally, Fandom_Wank is mentioned. Cyn thinks being named on it will make her 'famous:'

"Wow, I forgot all about this! Does that mean you're gonna make me famous? I mean you put a link directly to them! You know you've really made it when that happens. ;) "

The wank rulz the world - and makes you infamous too!

To recap: we've had mentions of Hitler, fandom wank, stalking, anonymous posters, people being banned/moderated from lists, bad fandom parodies stories, name calling, newish fans vs. old school slashers, etc.

All we need now is a death threat, a sockpuppet and we'd hit the motherload of all wanks in one sitting.


While I am on the Venice Place list and I did post a couple of times about this wank, I didn't post this on i_wank as I didn't engage in any fighting with the two wankers. Mostly my comments were, "Why has this NOT made Fandom_Wank?" After waiting a couple of days and not seeing it here, I figured I'd nominate it. If you think I should move it to i_wank, let me know.