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The Dark Lord Happy-Pants ([info]here4tehwank) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2005-03-16 10:10:00


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Current mood:*sporfle!*
Current music:crappy pap on the light 'n' queasy station

American Idol Wank
You all knew it was coming....

User Few_are_chosen makes a post about the top 12 contestants left, and community members wank about her lack of grammar.


Okay a lot of people have been talking about my grammer so I have gotten a friend of mine to write my entries for me and also re-word my words because she is good at that. People please understand that I am from the south in New Orleans and we all talk really ghetto and we also tend to type and write like we are. Its a habit, its just who I am, but I also feel like now I cant even get anyone to read what I am typing because no one can understand it. So for now on, my friend will be typing my entries for me, like this one here.


And does the wankage end there? No, my friends! The Mod gets involved!

I have never seen such a group of complainers in my life. First you don't like the new rules that have been set into effect and then you decide you are going to jump on someone for the way that they type. Some of you were polite about it yet some of you were out and out rude.
You had the choice of not reading what was written, yet you chose to be rude about it. Now, as some of you have so eloquently put it, this is "Your" community. That being the case, remember it is everyones community and there is no sense in the way you are acting to some of the other members.
I'm not really sure what the issue is with a few misspelled words or how someone speaking is really a call for someone to be rude.
Now, I understand that this community went for quite some time without moderation and I know several that have left because there were so many that were rude to them. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, however when you get nasty is when you should remember that if it continues, you will be removed from the community. This is supposed to be somewhere that everyone can feel comfortable and not feel that they have to leave because someone wants to pick on them for how things are worded.
I will not hesitate to ban anyone for doing so. There are other Idol communities. And even though I would hate to see people leave, there is just no sense in how a few others are being treated.
Next time, try to think before you comment on someones post. If you have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything at all.
Now let the flaming against me begin because I know it is going to happen.

Now go and enjoy the landslide of splooge!



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[info]kadath
2005-03-16 05:26 pm UTC (link)
I hatehateHATE the "im jess EXPRESING mehself!" excuse for shitty written communication. If you screamed all your conversations in real life, you'd be expressing yourself, too, but people would be rightly annoyed anyway.

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[info]here4tehwank
2005-03-16 05:29 pm UTC (link)
I know, and don't you just LOFF the gross generalization about ALL people in New Orleans?

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[info]kadath
2005-03-16 05:36 pm UTC (link)
But she's from New Orleans! She's had a hard life! It's the projects of the bayou out there! Since she was a little girl she's had to survive on the horrible, exploitative bead and stupid Mardi Gras hat tourist trade--carving necklaces out of the raw plastic of the swamps, crafting hats and masks from cypress bark that would sting her tiny fingers--and now, after working so hard, she can finally afford a television to watch American Idol on and a computer to connect to the Internet, but people are being so cruel and they have NO IDEA what her life was like!

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(no subject) - [info]here4tehwank, 2005-03-16 05:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]spikewriter, 2005-03-17 03:09 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sadisticferret, 2005-03-17 04:55 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-17 05:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]goldberry, 2005-03-17 06:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sadisticferret, 2005-03-17 07:51 pm UTC

[info]toxictattoo
2005-03-16 05:55 pm UTC (link)
Oh for the love of God...

I'm sorry. I read the 'ghetto' speak or whatever she thinks is passing for cutesy southern drawl.

I'm from the south. I'm deep south too. I'm a redneck. I talk with a heavy southern accent. I, too, write like I talk.

But I also learned how to spell in school. And even though my pronunciation of certain words may be similar to what she 'wrote down', I still know how to TYPE ...

for

looked

bigger and better

closer

Writing like I talk is a matter of word inversions, usage of verbs when I'm in a hurry, idiomatic phrases...and the like.

Fuck. Thanks hon, for making sounthern people look ignorant and backwards.

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[info]kenovay
2005-03-17 12:41 am UTC (link)
It was supposed to be Southern? I thought it was supposed to make her sound well hard and cool.

Either way, it failed. So. Eh.

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-16 06:24 pm UTC (link)
I was wondering how come there were no AI wanks. Have there been any in the past?

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-16 06:45 pm UTC (link)
Not that I know of, although there was a post in fandom_lounge back in January (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_lounge/76936.html) wondering about how soon wanking would begin.

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[info]wankprophet
2005-03-16 07:11 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, there have been some AI wanks in F_W's history. Quite a few, in fact, plus lots of wank about former AI people.

Unfortunately, I neither watch nor have any interest in AI, so the wanks pretty much fell below my radar.

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[info]phosfate
2005-03-16 07:16 pm UTC (link)
Every time I see a chunk of AI, I find myself shouting, "JUST HIT THE DAMNED NOTE!" at the screen.

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(no subject) - [info]wankprophet, 2005-03-16 07:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2005-03-16 07:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wankprophet, 2005-03-16 07:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2005-03-16 07:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]pesky, 2005-03-17 02:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ultimate_cin, 2005-03-17 05:00 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-16 07:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]coffee_mug, 2005-03-16 08:18 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-16 10:15 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-03-16 07:11 pm UTC (link)
The best part was that every single person who criticized her for her grammar/spelling... had a grammar/spelling problem in their own comment.

Beautiful.

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[info]nevadafighter
2005-03-16 07:30 pm UTC (link)
Likewise with you. It's pretty much a universal axiom now . . .

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(no subject) - [info]kenovay, 2005-03-17 12:42 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]nevadafighter, 2005-03-17 02:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2005-03-17 02:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]nevadafighter, 2005-03-17 03:55 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-17 05:09 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2005-03-17 05:16 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-18 05:55 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-17 07:29 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-17 07:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kenovay, 2005-03-17 06:28 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-03-16 07:20 pm UTC (link)
Are you guys SURE that this girl isn't a troll? I mean, who on earth (besides someone who hasn't been adequately schooled in English spelling/grammar) writes like that and isn't joking around?

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[info]coffee_mug
2005-03-16 08:17 pm UTC (link)
It's called the internet, mouse. In some places, you correct someone's spelling and you get "wot r u, my english teacher? no ur not so stfu" back.

Or then they excuse themselves with laziness.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-17 07:30 am UTC

[info]coffee_mug
2005-03-16 07:33 pm UTC (link)
My main problem with AI is that it's SO GODDAMN BORING. I don't what it is about it, but for reason I felt like in the Finnish version, people's personalities got out better. Now it's down to, what, 12 people and I don't know anything about anyone and I don't particularly care, either. None of them have been spectacular, and the songs have been pretty boring, as well.

I don't know, it's been a disappointment for me.

As for the wank, wow, I so wish certain comms on my flist would have that one-post-a-day-rule. Or like, "post all chapter/episode discussion under ONE post". Because I hatehatehate multiple posts about the same fucking thing.

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-16 07:38 pm UTC (link)
The Finnish version is lame. But I do admit, I watch AI simply because of Simon.

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(no subject) - [info]coffee_mug, 2005-03-16 08:13 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-16 10:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-03-16 10:20 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]coffee_mug, 2005-03-17 04:28 pm UTC

[info]deoridhe
2005-03-16 08:23 pm UTC (link)
See, now I want an icon saying: "I learnt my grammar on Fandom Wank; what's your excuse?" Like the "I learned to drive in New Jersey..." variant, it would be vehy amusing!

Either that or start a "spot the spelling/grammar error" community, where you get points.

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[info]pokecheck
2005-03-16 11:31 pm UTC (link)
I read her post and it was as if the spirit of John Wayne entered Yosemite Sam's body to impart the importance of that American Idol update.

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-17 12:16 am UTC (link)
Sorry to ask but where'd the wank about Heidi and Sapphiresmum go and thanks?

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[info]wankprophet
2005-03-17 12:46 am UTC (link)
It got locked because some anons were being assholes and starting to lose sight of the distinction between snarking on-line and stalking IRL. People are free to do what they want on their own time, just don't bring the stalking to F_W.

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[info]fuzzypink
2005-03-17 12:45 am UTC (link)
If I type ghetto, then thats the way I type, deal with it.

You want to type and talk ghetto? Fine. Just don't ever plan on leaving it.

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-17 05:10 am UTC (link)
Well said.

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[info]annabelle_lee
2005-03-17 07:19 am UTC (link)
Buh? I just don't get what's so wanky with the OP. Sure, she's dumber than dirt and a walking stereotype, but at least she's willing to get someone to edit her post for her for the sake of the community.

Now the mod? Oh hell yeah. That's prime wankery there. "OMG U GUYZ R SEW MEEEN!!111wtf" Who wants to take bets that if the wank had lasted longer, Snacky's Law would have be invoked? I got 2:1 odds here!

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[info]renata_hpjc
2005-03-17 07:40 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I agree. I was pretty impressed with the OP, too -- at least she's making an effort, even if her excuse for the way her posts looked originally is a bit wanky. It's primarily the mod that has me wanting to tear my hair out.

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-17 07:57 am UTC (link)
I say flame the hell out of anyone who's that excessively stupid. There are acceptable mistakes and there's just flat-out laziness. I'm sick of inconsiderate fucktards who refuse to spell check.

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-17 08:07 am UTC (link)
See, I don't know that she's lazy. I think she's making a purposeful effort to "write the way she talks," which is probably less natural than actually, oh, I don't know, WRITING ENGLISH THE WAY SHE WAS TAUGHT TO DO IN SCHOOL? Ugh. I know everyone in the entire universe says this all the time, but I could write more coherent sentences at the age of seven than this girl is doing now--and she's got to be at least thirteen to have an LJ. I weep for humanity: the children are our future!

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