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1:24pm: "Is anybody else experiencing a kind of perverse glee watching this place self destruct?"
So TWOP's sister site, FameTracker, is closing its forums forever. Glark announces:

After a strong start to our OODT program, support petered out and is not covering our growing costs of running the forums. A small group of hardcore donors helped us after the first month or two went by but traffic is growing much faster than support (which has shrunk).

We like to thank everyone who bought an OODT in the past and kept the forums going as long as they did. Our forum fund stopcovering costs a little while ago but we've got enough juice to go until mid-March. I'm going to place the official closing for Monday, March 14 but it might go a day in either way depending on circumstances.

He promptly starts a thread called "Last One Out Turn Off the Lights: The What Next Thread." There is the usual insane amount of ass kissing. HOWEVER. Many former and long-time posters decided to say what's on their minds. The fun really gets started on page 47. Avocato ponders Fametracker/s early days.

( Snark is one thing. Smugness, unrelenting judgment, racism, sexism, and general misanthropy are different, and are things that have unfortunately been cropping up all over the place here as of late. )

On page 48, a few others muse about moderating techniques not being exactly on target. However, Moodeln has a few ideas to share with the class.

( As I'm sure any self-respecting denizen of a steamroom could attest, interrupting someone else's public rimjob is very bad form, but time's winged chariot forces me into this particular faux pas, which is to wonder aloud: do you all have any fucking idea why the FT forums are closing? )

Ah, because it is bitter, and because it is the wank. Not nearly as wanky is bitpixie, who shares, "I know a lot of long-time posters who had similar run-ins with Wing. Things that people were genuinely surprised got them in trouble. And banning people who honestly ask what they did wrong even though they probably, in good faith, want to avoid doing it again? What a brilliant idea."

lwil adds, "I was mostly a lurker, but that was what i disliked the most about this place. The moderators' hyper-sensitivity to any criticism about themselves and the ass-kissing about how great the moderators were by posters hoping to get on their good side." But merqury brings it home.

( Everyone was so far up Wing's ass that I thought maybe I was ego-tripping, questioning the mod's views. )

But bitpixie disagrees.

( Wing in particular has had more than her share of blatantly unprofessional posts and clicked the button for too many unwarranted bannings. )

Awesome. Just awesome. No board reaction from Wing et al as of yet. And we're now up to page 60.

In case of deletion, I have taken the liberty of cutting and pasting some of the best posts at twop_crit. C'mon over.

ETA: I may very well love Pippy DeNova. Fametracker "bigwig" bstewart demands that the mods shut the thread down, and gets huffy on their behalf.

( How fucking dare you ungrateful assholes come into someone's online home, denigrate their decisions and piss on their carpet, after enjoying their free hospitality for so long? )

Pippy DeNova's reponse:

( Get the hell over yourself.  )

ETA2: The forums are now down. Good thing I did shitloads of cutting and pasting. W00t!

2:20pm: When sockpuppets go wild
Socks with personality bring the wank!

symphonia _sock posts in the symphonia_slash comm. Apparently a fic written by yume_no_hikari was criticised in the journal of one vyctori.

"Oh dear, someone didn't like a story and talked about it in their LJ. SCANDAL!!!"

(and the internet police put in an appearance)


Then it gets odder: an anonymouse shows up and links screenshots of three now-locked posts from vyctori which are apparently unrelated to the original wank, except that they show vyctori reacting to some negative (and hilariously wanky) comments on her own fic.

Symphonia_sock then explains that she was just trying to give vyctori a "taste of her own medicine" with the original post, and as a bonus explains the honour code of trolls to us all.

In addition, moumusu posts posts wondering whether symphonia_sock is in fact yume_no_hikari.

"I won't even start. It's bullshit. Okay, maybe I will start. She's getting back at someone who dissed her fic in private, by making a sock puppet journal, going by anonymous, and being a pathetic bitch."

Symphonia_sock responds with this gem, and also pulls out her f_w membership card.


And that's where it's at so far - oddly enough, both vyctori and yume_no_hikari seem to be responding intelligently and without much wanking in general, but the socks appear to be splooging enough for everyone.

ETA: yume_no_hikari pleads via proxy for sanity and an end to the drama.