Well, all right, maybe not high speed car chases. So, the background: last year, Neil Gaiman, author of such lovely things as Neverwhere and the Sandman series etc., was contacted to speak at a library in Minnesota for a hefty speaking fee, which was paid for by a fund which (a) stated any leftover money would be lost if not used, and (b) was also not available for books, salaries, or other useful things. Neil Gaiman did so, and subsequently donated the speaking fee to charities.

All's well that ends well, right? Well, except that Matt Dean, the House Majority Leader, decided it was time to let his long-simmering grudge be aired to the world: 'Dean said that Gaiman, "who I hate," was a "pencil-necked little weasel who stole $45,000 from the state of Minnesota."'

Neil is... well, he's not well pleased. Nor is his Twitter. ( Cut for length )

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.

So the neil_gaiman comm on LJ has actually been actuve lately. Because one person has been posting at least once a day.

It starts with deleriumschild's intro, where it is reviealed she was bohemianbabe, and had left it a dramatastic way.
( Fuck y'all! )

But she has moved on. Or not. She asks random questions that can be answered elsewhere, like s there a site that gives a breif synopsis of each sandman trade... and Why does everyone go to hell in Sandman?. No harm done so far, right?

She posts on Sunday that she went out while drunk and spent money she didn't have on the Sandman Companion and Absolute Sandman. This is largely ignored.

The next day, She posts again. And all hell breaks loose. And it seems the OP deleted most of the comments while I was sleeping, but I remember the first comment post saying that she should post this in her personal journal, because no on cares about her drunk purchasing habits. One of the only comments that survived:
Did you delete my comments to give people the impression I had said something horrible and nasty to you, when I fact all I did was point out how this kind of post might not be of interest to a community?

This will be deleted too for sure, but meanwhile, concerning you latest post, let me ask you this: What is even the POINT of posting in a community if you're going to disable comments? Communities are for interaction, for exchanging ideas. Otherwise you're just imposing yourself on people without giving them a chance to react.

And believe me, I've seen bullying, and nobody in this community did anything even remotely close to bullying you. I don't know where you get that.

In her latest post, she declares everyone meeen for calling her a ditz and saying that it wasn't exactly appropriate for the community. So now all of her entries will have comments disabled.

Edit: A majority of the wank has been deleted, I'm guessing by the mod, and there's a new post up.

This is a discussion community. There will be civil discourse or there will be banning. And anyone who posts and disables comments will have their posts deleted and their asses banned from here too. Especially if it's not discussed with me first. If you have a problem with someone, you come to me first. You don't just try running the comm by yourself. Dig?

For the moment, the comm is on moderate because a few people can't play nicely.

~your friendly neighbourhood mod