Our saga begins with azewewish complaining about the warning system used by lotrips, a community that lists new stories in LotRiPs fandom. Which is fair enough as the moderators define warnings to be anything in the fic that readers should be aware of.

But then it devolves into: OMG STOP LABELLING MY FIC WITH LABELS THAT ARE NOT IN THE HEADER! and MY FIC IS NOT ANGST WHY ARE YOU LABELLING IT ANGST?! and OMG YOU ARE LINKING TO LOCKED POSTS DONT YOU KNOW THAT'S CARDINAL SIN #1 and OMG THE HORROR YOU ARE LISTING WHAT TYPE OF AU A STORY IS! and OMG YOU ARE SPOILING THE STORY

And it wouldn't be fun if there isn't a threat in the whole mess:

Knock if off or stop listing us all. WE are the authors here, NOT you. What WE want people to see about our stories is what WE post in OUR OWN HEADERS. YOUR opinion on what should or shouldn't be there DOESN'T MATTER. Such things about a story is what individual feedback is for, NOT what people should see before they read something!

And another, courtesy of Nverland

As was stated, you have the right to comment, you do not have the right to defame others work by your own opinions. And as such lotrips and msilverstar have both been banned several places already today.

The lotrips posts start here and here. azewewish has a
whatcha guys think about this?' post. LJ's metafandom has a whole slew of links about this bruising of authorial sensibilities here

Fic-labeling and warning wank: can spring and the REVIEWS ARE EBIL chorus be far behind?

(Found on a combination of wank_report and metafandom on LJ. Hat-tip to the 'mouse I'm blatantly swiping it from, and apologies to miraba. Couldn't pass the title up.)

Monique thinks it's insulting to the everso sacred friendship of Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd to even think of implying that they may be gay.

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Wank ensues, but there's a very good comment from our own Esorlehcar, for which I want to fangirl her for. Enjoy!

EDIT: It got much wankier

I have no clue what the hell spawned this, but it sure is funny!

Accusations of socckpuppetry, starfucking and conspiracies! Oh My!

Go here - LOTR deathmatch stuff...

Wow -- I think I might be missing out on a lot by not paying much attention.

Thank you to fw_deathmatch for leading me to this.

Reading friendsfriends on LJ, I came across this:

I thought fans were supposed to be intelligent and above the high-school level crap. IMO, f_w and associated groups have a useful purpose, and a lot of it is damn funny, but there's a level of maliciousness that chills me lately. I see it everywhere.

An interesting post, if I don't quite agree with the implied similarities between what FW does and cruelty to young children and the mentally handicapped. Some very interesting comments, as well, unsurprisingly mostly dealing with DomLijah.

ETA: And yet another thought-provoking essay on the subjects of fanpower and the actor as social currency by auralonde.

(Um. Look at me posting serious things instead of pointing and laughing material - bad me! Will find some true wank soon to make up for it.)

Checked Datalounge for the first time in awhile and found this lovely thread:

How Domlijah has made us better people, and what we have done for Domlijah

Please don't troll the thread, just enjoy what unfolds.