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pointandlaugh ([info]pointandlaugh) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2006-07-08 16:48:00


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Entry tags:fandom: dragonriders of pern

Pern Fandom Wanks Again
I resisted for a good long time, but the wank it just keeps going.

There is a Pern board called the Kitchen Table. On this, the admin have a private office area. There is another Pern board called Pernese Friends. On this some people have a private Hellkats area.

All is good until a couple of the admin frim the Kitchen Table insult another of the Kitchen Table admin in the Hellkats area. Another admin reports it back, the admin doing the insulting get sacked and after that there's a whole lot of shouting.


People feel that as the Kitchen Table is paid for by donations they should get to vote on how it's run. People feel the office area should be open. People feel they should get to vote on current Hosts. People feel they should get to vote on how new Hosts are chosen.

Meanwhile the wank just keeps going.

(There are probably more links. I know t5here was one on the Hellkats board somewhere because I saw it posted on the Kitchen Table. There's so much Kitchen Table stuff though, that finding it seems an impossible task.)

ETA:-Another thread goes up! Could it all be a massive conspiracy?

ETA2:-Looks like the Pernese Friends lot do have wank too. And after some poking I found their side of the story.

ETA3:- And someone spots they've been wanked.

ETA4:- Handy timeline of events is posted. People get snarky about people leaving. Hosts try to explain how they choose new Hosts.

ETA5:- The I'm leaving post that was being snarked at. Which I would have spotted the first time, but these people are wanking so hard it's hard to keep up.

ETA6:- Did I mention being hard to keep up? Pernese Friends decides to bah-leet most of their wank and move it to a private forum because people are laughing at them people might get upset. Stupidly, I did not take screen caps. Anyone want to upload copies and I'll link them.



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Right. Obligatory in-joke in five... four... three....
[info]m_butterfly
2006-07-09 04:44 pm UTC (link)
[insert tent peg joke here]

Now that's out of the way.

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Re: Right. Obligatory in-joke in five... four... three....
[info]amyheartssiroc
2006-07-10 02:35 am UTC (link)
I'm not sure what the joke is, and I'm not sure I'd like to know, but I'd really like to know, you know?

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Re: Right. Obligatory in-joke in five... four... three.... - [info]breecita, 2006-07-10 04:20 am UTC
Re: Right. Obligatory in-joke in five... four... three.... - [info]amyheartssiroc, 2006-07-10 04:23 am UTC
Re: Right. Obligatory in-joke in five... four... three.... - [info]breecita, 2006-07-10 04:28 am UTC
Re: Right. Obligatory in-joke in five... four... three.... - [info]amyheartssiroc, 2006-07-10 04:30 am UTC

[info]breecita
2006-07-09 05:03 pm UTC (link)
I suggest that a few times a year, we drop every moderator in the Pern Fandom into a giant vat of jello and have a brawl. At least then we could make money off of our psychotic need to make a public scene.

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[info]gobsmacked
2006-07-10 12:13 am UTC (link)
giant vat of jello and have a brawl
What's wrong with mud? /traditionalist

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-07-10 10:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-11 12:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-07-12 06:13 am UTC

[info]toph
2006-07-09 05:24 pm UTC (link)
HahahahahaPERN.

(Don't look at me, I pern rp'd for five years. I'm allowed to point and laugh.)

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[info]tiki
2006-07-09 06:12 pm UTC (link)
My my, there's a lot of passive-aggressives in Pern fandom. OH BUT I'M SO HURT, NO I AM HURT MORE THAN YOU, WELL I UNDERSTAND YOU ARE HURT BUT I AM HURT A MILLION BAZILLION TIMES MORE. Ugh.
Bonus points for the inane lecture on the Dolphin Rider version of Orthodox Judaism.

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[info]pointandlaugh
2006-07-09 06:15 pm UTC (link)
...I think I missed that. Where was that? Dolphin Rider Judaism is worth me reading again.

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(no subject) - [info]tiki, 2006-07-09 06:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2006-07-09 06:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-09 06:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-09 09:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-09 09:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-09 11:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-07-10 10:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2006-07-11 02:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-07-12 06:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2006-07-09 06:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]jadelennox, 2006-07-10 01:09 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]pariforma, 2006-07-10 05:20 pm UTC

[info]hickorydickory
2006-07-09 06:59 pm UTC (link)
My my, there's a lot of passive-aggressives in Pern fandom.

Heh. That reminds me of the Pern RPs I used to participate in. Our characters weren't allowed to have any "angst", as the mods called it, or any negative emotions. If you wanted something interesting to happen to your character, you were accused of trying to get attention for yourself. If you wanted an interesting plot to happen you had to notify the mods weeks in advance. This pretty much resulted in the characters sitting around drinking klah, exclaiming, "My, what a lovely day!" And EVERY Pern RP I played in was like that.

Between that and McCaffrey not allowing fic, the fans are bound to go batshit crazy from sheer boredom.

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(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-09 07:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hickorydickory, 2006-07-09 08:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-09 09:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]funwithrage, 2006-07-10 12:59 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]theladyfeylene, 2006-07-09 08:51 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-09 09:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]theladyfeylene, 2006-07-09 09:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-09 09:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]theladyfeylene, 2006-07-09 11:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-09 11:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ayezur, 2006-07-09 10:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-09 10:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ayezur, 2006-07-10 12:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-10 01:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ayezur, 2006-07-10 03:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]theladyfeylene, 2006-07-09 11:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ayezur, 2006-07-10 12:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dark_puck, 2006-07-10 03:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-09 09:25 pm UTC
Strike! - [info]exdee, 2006-07-09 10:17 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hickorydickory, 2006-07-10 12:08 am UTC

[info]exdee
2006-07-09 06:15 pm UTC (link)
oh, Pern. I don't miss you at all.

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[info]staroverthebay
2006-07-09 06:46 pm UTC (link)
the Pern fandom has always been pretty (mildly, compared to HP) batshit insane. Anne McCaffrey's No-Fanfic rule always kinda irked me, even after she relaxed it. She's got a loooooong way to go to be close to Anne Rice in batshittery, but....

I don't miss that fandom one iota. The last few Pern books have not been very good in my opinion, anyway, so I'm not sorry I left the fandom.

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[info]rosehiptea
2006-07-09 08:09 pm UTC (link)
I stopped after the first few books. Ironically, at the time, it was mostly because of the sex. (I was pretty young? Heh, I don't know.) I've read non-Pern stuff by her but just really could not get into it at all.

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[info]pointandlaugh
2006-07-09 08:48 pm UTC (link)
I stopped at Skies. That book traumatised me. I now stare at new books by much-loved author's warily thinking "Is this is? Will this be their Skies?"

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(no subject) - [info]huehau, 2006-07-09 09:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-09 09:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]freezer, 2006-07-09 09:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-09 10:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-09 10:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]amyheartssiroc, 2006-07-10 02:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]freezer, 2006-07-09 09:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]palabradot, 2006-07-10 02:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]freezer, 2006-07-10 03:08 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]palabradot, 2006-07-10 03:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]baskinglizard, 2006-07-12 03:46 am UTC

[info]huehau
2006-07-09 09:20 pm UTC (link)
I haven't been able to find any good Pern fic even after AM relaxed the rules. People just don't write Pern fic based on canon characters and I'm not interested in OCs. If I wanted to read what some OC was doing in a Pass other than the 9th, I'd go read an RP.

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(no subject) - [info]j00j, 2006-07-10 06:45 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-07-11 12:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]huehau, 2006-07-11 02:40 am UTC

[info]pussycat
2006-07-09 07:11 pm UTC (link)
I used to read the original pern books but I never got into the fandom. ( The tent peg thing mead me go O.o )

This "office" thing is supposed to be a board open only to the sites admin/mods, am I understanding that right? Sounds like the norm to me. why shouldn't they have a private place to discuss board related business? Most forums do that way, though you can certainly make that private board invisible to the rest of the board and then it's not an issue.

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[info]freezer
2006-07-09 08:00 pm UTC (link)
Times like this, I think I hung out in the only non-wanky section of the Pern fandom (the now-mostly moribund alt.fan.pern)

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[info]oxydosic
2006-07-10 05:21 am UTC (link)
*is dead from your icon* Lazy Town needs more dirty icons made from it.

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[info]imperialgirl
2006-07-09 09:35 pm UTC (link)
Oh, thank God. Finally someone noticed so I didn't have to put this in iwank. (I'm Anareth. I can be seen in the above threads pointing out that the Hosts are playing fascist dictators by hauling in something said on a locked forum on a completely different board to use against people. I don't actually use the words fascist dictators, or the one I'd really like to use, "Nazis", because that would get me banned. As would any creative attempt to evade the filter there, which filters ALL variations on "fuck", "WTF", and even F***** will be turned into *******. Yes, certian posters there are SO fragile even "WTF" shatters their delicate consitutions. "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is also verbotten.)

This has made me realize that while HP is bigger in raw numbers, in terms of per capita wank, McCaffrey fandom has way, way more than it's fair share.

The office thing--I actually wouldn't care if certain members of the hosting team didn't have a history of making descisions that seem, on examination, highly illogical, and if they didn't make a pretense from the outset that the site was member run and took member money to operate it. I have a bigger issue with the attitude that the self-appointed hosts can't be questioned and that one who is actually a problem poster herself can't be removed by a vote of no confidence from the members.

And yes, Leah drags her religion into EVERYTHING. I begin to understand why my Judaic Studies prof, a Reform Jew, obviously had issues with the Orthodox, because if she's a type specimen I can see where he'd be driven up a wall. She even used a Pern thread to say how her religion either makes people smarter/more logical, or attracts people who are smarter/more logical. If I had to work with her, I'd have gone to an off-site forum and bitched about her, too.

Heh, I just did. Now let's see if I get banned from KT for it!

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[info]sol
2006-07-09 10:31 pm UTC (link)
...but why the hell would you point out that they're being wanked in the first place, especially when the rules say not to do that?

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(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-09 10:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sol, 2006-07-09 11:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]azarias, 2006-07-09 11:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-09 11:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sol, 2006-07-10 12:54 am UTC

[info]breecita
2006-07-09 10:35 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, gleefully linking them back here is not exactly a winning move.

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(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-09 11:00 pm UTC

[info]crysiana
2006-07-10 12:29 am UTC (link)
Okay!

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[info]adora_spintriae
2006-07-10 02:53 am UTC (link)
But what are your thoughts on yaoi?

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[info]sepiamagpie
2006-07-10 03:06 am UTC (link)
I'm warning you for trolling.

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(no subject) - [info]imperialgirl, 2006-07-10 04:46 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sol, 2006-07-10 05:48 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2006-07-10 06:40 am UTC

[info]snacky
2006-07-10 03:44 am UTC (link)
Now let's see if I get banned from KT for it!

I don't know about KT, but you're about five minutes from getting your ass banned from here, unless someone's able to talk me out of it.

Are you just ignoring the community rules or did you think they didn't apply to you?

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It's all your fault.
[info]adora_spintriae
2006-07-10 02:54 am UTC (link)
I blame f_w for the fact that everytime someone mentions McCaffrey or Pern offline, I immediately break down from laughter over the word "tent pegs".

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Re: It's all your fault. - [info]felinephoenix, 2006-07-10 12:24 pm UTC

[info]smo
2006-07-10 10:10 pm UTC (link)
GIP, yo.

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(no subject) - [info]metrocowboy, 2006-07-12 06:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-07-12 07:02 am UTC

 
   
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