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amber ([info]grindelwald) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2004-07-25 18:05:00


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Current mood:bored

Not even good enough for Sparklypoo.
Sorting Community Wank, and it doesn't have anything to do with being Sorted. I never thought I'd see the day.

That's right, the trolls are baiting the HP fandom again. Shame it's so easy.


Meet Becky . She leaves an anonymous (because she 'doesn't have a journal') comment on Hogwarts Houses, a place where members can submit answers to questions and be 'sorted' by the members. It goes a little something like this:

okay well i think this community is really lame. and you people have no lives. i would expect a 7 year old to be in it. not no 13, 14, 15 and 16. and i think you should all be on the queer list..

Of course, one doesn't tell the HP fans that they have no lives. Wank ensues as she enrages them with her incredible wit - but nothing should have come of it, and if people had sense, that would be the end.

But since when have we ever known people to have sense?

sunfallsunfall draws a comic that has about as much maturity as the troll's original post. The troll responds - however she's started using a spelling that is almost a parody of netspeak.

sunfallsunfall responds with another comic. Can you hear my sides splitting? In a moment of almost intelligent sarcasm, 'Becky' pokes fun at a group member's spelling. Sunfall misses the point, calling her a hypocrite.

Becky continues to troll the community (or whore herself out for attention, whatever.)
sunfallsunfall finds it so marvellous that she draws another comic.

I think the crowning moment of the wank so far has been on this thread, where Becky's sarcasting congratulations to herself about winning the 'Troll of the Year' award inspires numerous people's patient responses explaining 'no, Becky, you don't want to be a troll, they're baaaad...'

People suggest turning off or screening anonymous comments but nothing's yet been done. This reporter is beginning to wonder if this Becky is still the original Becky, as her spacing and spelling becomes more and more erratic.

Hope you didn't lose too many brain cells, and don't step in the spooge.



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[info]cellardoor28
2004-07-25 12:24 pm UTC (link)
'call me young lassy and brush my fur!!!'


this amused me more than it has any right to.

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[info]nights_mistress
2004-07-25 02:31 pm UTC (link)
Well, the fact that these people say "I'm in such and such House" is rather silly, but the troll is equally silly. But the webcomics were vaguely amusing in a "I'm so elitist and self-centred" sort of way.

Why is my fandom so damn wanky? Apart from the fact that it's a bunch of sixteen year old wizards (well the actual literature for the next book is, anyway) and they do wank repeatedly, but why are the fans so damn batshit?

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-25 05:06 pm UTC (link)
"Well, the fact that these people say "I'm in such and such House" is rather silly,"

Um..it's not.People want to know which House they belong to..so really you have no right saying it's silly.

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[info]eyebrowofdoom
2004-07-25 05:24 pm UTC (link)
Really burning up the refutational dancefloor there, kid.

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(no subject) - [info]mooncalf, 2004-07-25 10:21 pm UTC

[info]diamonde
2004-07-25 07:04 pm UTC (link)
Yet that is sadly impossible, since to be in a school house you have to be a student at the school and none of us are because it's fictional. That makes calling someone's insistance that they are 'silly' a rather kind interpretation by my standards.

I can declare myself an 8th level green enchantress of the Zarg school and Grand High Poohbah of Ostentatia right here if I want to, but people would laugh at me and have every right to do so.

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(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2004-07-26 12:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]diamonde, 2004-07-26 02:08 pm UTC

[info]bishounenhuntrs
2004-07-25 07:59 pm UTC (link)
Having or not having the 'right' doesn't mean jackshit, friend. Not in VR or RL.

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[info]singe
2004-07-25 09:13 pm UTC (link)
Hufflepuff, eh? *Sneers Slytherin style*

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-26 11:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]nights_mistress, 2004-07-26 12:49 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]squib, 2004-07-26 01:24 am UTC
(no subject) - roxannelinton, 2004-07-26 03:04 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]nights_mistress, 2004-07-27 01:01 am UTC
(no subject) - roxannelinton, 2004-07-27 03:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2004-07-26 04:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-26 08:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2004-07-26 10:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]deoridhe, 2004-07-27 04:05 pm UTC

[info]bishounenhuntrs
2004-07-25 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Most of us, whether we're on Hogwarts Houses or not, do the 'House' thing just for fun.
There's not much one can do about the kooks in the fandom who act like it's real.

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(no subject) - [info]deoridhe, 2004-07-26 04:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bishounenhuntrs, 2004-08-07 06:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]deoridhe, 2004-08-07 06:23 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2004-07-26 12:01 am UTC (link)
Do you just not get the humour of it? She's not drawing it in this "omgz wer so bettar then teh trollzz!! omgz lollercoasterz lok shez so dum!!" point of view. It's something to laugh at. Someone is annoying our comm, and a few comics featuring snarky humour are produced as it's result.

Come on, people, get a sense of humour, would you?


~ meli_p from lj

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(no subject) - [info]nights_mistress, 2004-07-26 12:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]llorelei, 2004-07-26 01:47 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-26 04:35 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-26 09:46 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-27 08:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-07-26 02:11 pm UTC
Sense of humor? - [info]deoridhe, 2004-07-26 04:42 pm UTC
Re: Sense of humor? - [info]ladyrogue, 2004-07-27 11:41 am UTC
Re: Sense of humor? - [info]deoridhe, 2004-07-27 04:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2004-07-26 04:46 pm UTC

[info]missambs
2004-07-26 02:14 am UTC (link)
Yes, perhaps it's silly, but it's just for fun. It's not as if we actually have delusions that we're attending Hogwarts. Well, at least I hope no one has that delusion.

We get sorted and then compete in contests to win points for our houses. It's fun.

-- proud Slytherin *cough*

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(no subject) - [info]grindelwald, 2004-07-26 11:38 am UTC
(no subject) - cicer, 2004-07-27 07:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ladyrogue, 2004-07-27 11:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]deoridhe, 2004-07-27 04:02 pm UTC

[info]pfeffermuse
2004-07-25 03:27 pm UTC (link)
Trolls can be fun to play with, but it takes a certain finesse to handle them. And the majority of posters just don't have that skill (or the time to invest in it properly).

Is there a gene in the human species that prevents people from not feeding the troll? Inquiring minds what to know.

Pepper

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[info]teratologist
2004-07-25 03:33 pm UTC (link)
I'm pretty sure that deep down, people fear that the trolls will steal all the best food and mating opportunities if left alone.

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(no subject) - [info]pfeffermuse, 2004-07-25 04:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2004-07-25 05:32 pm UTC

[info]elvinborn
2004-07-25 07:50 pm UTC (link)
I think it's like feeding animals at the zoo. It's too much fun to watch them jump up and down for the food. If you're patient, you might even teach the troll some cool tricks.

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(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2004-07-26 12:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]elvinborn, 2004-07-26 02:29 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2004-07-26 02:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]elvinborn, 2004-07-26 02:37 am UTC

[info]missambs
2004-07-26 02:15 am UTC (link)
But... feeding the troll is fun!

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[info]llama_treats
2004-07-25 03:50 pm UTC (link)
I love how the community members were using the word "Muggle" as an insult at the same time they were attempting to teach tolerance to little Becky.

Beautiful!

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-25 04:44 pm UTC (link)
I don't think it was the original Becky, as she went from "you have no lives" to "omgimdum!"

Anyhow, I mod that community and anon comments have been taken off. Just for the record. I made a post about it if you'd like to link to that, too. LOL

--rosiegalbasi on LJ

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[info]grindelwald
2004-07-26 11:54 am UTC (link)
Yay. I just thought the entire thing was too funny, really.

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-25 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Illustrated wank! There so needs to be more of that.

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-25 08:02 pm UTC (link)
Ah, HP wank. I love it!

Oh, couple of little things - there's a new LiveJournal community called anti_fanfiction; fanfiction is apparently disgusting and TEH EBIL!!11!111ichi!11one11!, don't you know.

And... LJ's very own fanfic_hate has a new mod - and this one isn't even using a sockpuppet journal. Bravery?... No, just stupidity.

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[info]big_bad_wolf
2004-07-25 10:05 pm UTC (link)
Illustrated wank!

More people should take the time to draw insulting pictures. It livens things up for people like me, who read very slowly with their fingers.

[No, I don't mean braille].

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[info]redjackcash
2004-07-25 10:57 pm UTC (link)

Aw man.

Aw man this freaks me out.

Freaks me out so good.

I mean, sure, it's a troll, but really it makes the House community even more creepy when their defense is "OMG MUGGLE ROFL!" and "NONE OF THE HOUSES LIEK YOU OMG!!11!"

I mean, come on...it's not real.

I'm going to write a fic. It will be all about MUGGLE PRIDE and the horrible, discriminatory Muggle-bashing that goes on amongst wizards. DON'T OPRESS MY PEOPLE!

OH WAIT IT'S ALL IMAGINARY NEVER MIND.

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[info]redjackcash
2004-07-25 11:19 pm UTC (link)

P.S. And the comics are OMG SO FUNNY 'cause SNAPE HAS A MALLET FORM HAMMER SPACE LIKE AKANE FROM RANMA OMG ROFL ANIME CLICHES NEVAR GET OLD.

This girl is about as funny as an on-line gaming comic drawn in a shitty anime style that is secetly about politics. Which is to say not at all.

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(no subject) - [info]iczer6, 2004-07-25 11:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-26 09:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2004-07-26 04:49 pm UTC

[info]llorelei
2004-07-25 11:35 pm UTC (link)
I'm going to write a fic. It will be all about MUGGLE PRIDE and the horrible, discriminatory Muggle-bashing that goes on amongst wizards. DON'T OPRESS MY PEOPLE!

Pharoh, let my people go!

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(no subject) - [info]iczer6, 2004-07-25 11:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2004-07-26 03:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]deoridhe, 2004-07-26 04:47 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2004-07-26 01:52 am UTC (link)
Did you make that icon?... It's very strange. ^^

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(no subject) - [info]seether, 2004-07-26 02:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-07-26 04:23 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]seether, 2004-07-26 04:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-07-26 05:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]seether, 2004-07-26 05:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]redjackcash, 2004-07-26 07:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-27 04:13 pm UTC

[info]theartema
2004-07-26 04:28 am UTC (link)
Ew, the troll has my name. oO

... maybe that's because I am the troll, utilizing one of my many many alter-egos!

... nah, too lazy.

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