Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

Dragon Riders of Kreysthahl is a twee little RPG more or less a direct port of inspired by Dragonriders of Pern.

A Pern fan from the Anne McCaffrey Fans board finds this.

Rules are debated.

A posse is organized.

A lecture is given.

Threats are made.

The game goes on hiatus.

I swear, every time I stop by the Kitchen Table there's new wank. It's like if these people don't have something to bitch about they get bored.

Someone gets banned from the Kitchen Table

The Hosts announce it

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People argue about the rules.

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People argue MORE about what the rules SHOULD BE (for about the five hundred and twentieth time.)

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A petition is started for "unbanning".

A poll is started on whether banning should be public.

The person banned meanwhile doesn't really care. This is not too suprising as she has an alter ego.

(There will probably be more threads later. It's the KT. Once they have something to argue about, they like to drag discussion about it out for the next three months.)

ETA screencaps for those pages which you need to sign up for a KT account to access.

ETA 2. Did I mention these peopl like to drag discussion out into many threads?

New rule suggested! No name calling! Screencap

New rule suggested! Negotiation for banned members! Screencap

Also, banned member's alter ego is now also banned.

Meanwhile rebellion brews.

ETA 3

More rebellion? Or is it time to let the KT go? Someone else gets a warning. Bookmarks are deleted.

Meanwhile, back on the KT People who tell tales shouldn't get to be anonymous!"

What about Member Advocates? (Disclaimer, I don't actually fully understand the concept of a member advocate, but for the sake of completeness felt I should stuff the thread in.)Screencaps

Also, other screencaps updated.

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.

Hi, obligatory mouthings about first post, many thanks to amasaglajax for giving me a code, etc., etc.

This wank is a couple of weeks old, but it's still a good one, and it's guaranteed to flare back up again. I was hesitant to post it because Pern fandom has a few solid decades of wank behind it, and there's no way I can adequately sum up to the uninitiated just how much spooge has been flung around this fandom.

Why am I still in it? First, I like to think that I inhabit the mostly sane corner, and second, there's an unending supply of dancing monkeys to entertain me.

( Some backstory )

( And now, the wank. )