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    Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
    11:30 pm
    [stupid_fangirl]
    Hi,
    I know the NSFW icons are not allowed for comment on wank comms. But I'm not sure about just word remark on a pic is allowed or not?

    Can you please tell me this icon is allowed to post on the comm or not?
    Thursday, May 1st, 2008
    6:08 am
    [black_spot]
    Permission request
    Oh Great Mods,

    I posted a wank about animation the other day in OTF that didn’t get the mocking replies I was expecting. Instead of laughing at the people, they began to debate the subject that started the whole thing.

    I’m here to request that I be allowed to post about the results from OFT thread without giving any links or clues as to where it came from, proving to the n00b that 2D isn’t dead and the demographic he insists think it is so, don’t. Maybe a quote or two, but definitely no names.

    I await your opinion.

    Edit:
    I was never in the fight. I posted early in both threads before they descended into such. The subject matter is interesting to me and I’ve been a member there for a bit. Basically I was intending to ignore the troll and write about the audience who are the main consumers of animation.

    On my post on OFT (where there was hardly any discussion of the wank) it seems that most people prefer 2D except when, and only when, 3D might be better. Seeing the opinions being reiterated again and again, I just thought I’d ask.

    I know the rules and you have spoken, I won’t reply. Thank you.
    Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
    6:04 pm
    [miraba]
    What community does this go to?
    Harvard man pranks his classmates via pseuicide, claims social experiment
    Happened online but obviously in a system we can't get to. Writeup is in the newspaper. FW offline?
    Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
    4:20 pm
    [also_not_a_pipe]
    I was just talking to someone on some community or another about crazy people who write letters to the paper, and it made me think of this ridiculous controversy at the center of the letters page in Dayton's paper lately. The Dayton Islamic Society recently applied for permission to build a mosque in one of the snotty New Rich suburbs south of town. A little while before the zoning board turned down their application, it came out that a Baptist mega-church nearby had been stumping for support in blocking the mosque. You know the reputation Cincinnati has (or had on the 1980s and 1990s) for being a bunch of small-town crazy conservatives in a medium-sized city? Dayton wishes it was Cincinnati and tries to outdo it by being even crazier. The sort of people who make Dayton special yowling at each other in the letters column and the paper's anonymous phone-in comment column have been amusing enough, but now the wife of the mega-church's minister has written a four-column-long letter that more or less amounts to "We did not either say that! And if we did, well, how do you expect Christians not to bash other religions?"

    I've been thinking about maybe posting something on it over at [info]fw_offine, but I'm not sure the lulz would translate well across mediums. While it fills me with glee and is fun in a dishy oh-no-they-di'nt way, I'm not sure that the humor doesn't depend on knowing the Dayton area. For example, the other major story in the paper about now is that Dayton is trying to figure out how to attract "a creative class" to make up for the fact that no one wants to live here any longer than they have to, but they don't seem to have worked out that making ourselves look like a bunch of xenophobic hicks isn't the way to go about doing that. I'm not sure I've found any quotes that are hilarious except for being about a situation that's so absurd.

    So does the novelty of it happening in real life outweigh the srs bizness that is religious intolerance? And then, if I post it to [info]fw_offline which probably has all of three people watching it, does it really matter?
    Saturday, January 26th, 2008
    4:36 pm
    [stupid_fangirl]
    FW tags index?
    Well, can mods please add the tags index at the community front page? Or just a link in the info page is great as well.

    Also should we tag the entry with where the wank start? Fandom secret, FFR, LJ, BRPS or something like that?

    It helps me to find things to read since I don't come here often  ^_^
    Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
    7:08 am
    [snacky]
    Anonymous commenting
    If you want to discuss solutions to the spam problem, feel free!
    Saturday, October 13th, 2007
    12:12 am
    [khym_chanur]
    FW tags format standard
    Now that JF has tags I've been tagging some of favorite FW posts, but now I've paused because there really should be a standard format for tags. Specifically, I'm wondering how individual fandoms should be tagged. For example, right now Bleach wanks are simply tagged "bleach", but could be tagged "fandom: bleach", or even "anime: bleach". I'm thinking that fandom tags should be prefixed with something, so that it's easy to tell them from non-fandom tags, and that it should be "fandom: bleach", so that wanks about Bleach anime filler episodes, wanks about recently released manga scanlations, and wanks about the musicals can all unambiguously go under one tag.

    Current Mood: curious
    Thursday, July 19th, 2007
    6:02 pm
    [flightstothesea]
    LJ admin issues
    I've seen a few usernames over in the latest LJ wank that I know from here, but rather than risk bannination myself, I decided to keep quiet (especially since lots of people have already brought up points I would have made). But I think it would be a good idea if the mods here clarified whether or not members of the wank communities will get banned for taking part in the er... discussion... regarding LJ's policies. I know lots of us have LJs and therefore may have a stake in this sort of thing, and I know during Strikethrough no one was banned for it, but I just want to make sure.

    Edit to clarify because I am not of the smart today: Will people get banned for commenting that post on lj_biz? And in future inevitable LJ wanks about policy?
    Thursday, July 12th, 2007
    11:36 pm
    [also_not_a_pipe]
    Hope it's okay to use this as a sounding board for the other wank communities. Feel free to delete it or Internet shout at me or whatever if I've put it in the wrong place (and it'll be taken care of in the morning, because I is going to bed right now).

    Anyway, I'm having a bit of trouble deciding about whether or not I ought to post something to otf_wank.

    There's a rumor going around the Internets that people on Réunion Island are using dogs as live shark bait. It turns out to be mostly not true (basically it happened once recently, the dude was charged with animal cruelty, and it turns out that there have been cases of fishermen using already deceased animals as bait but there isn't this huge epidemic of it that the rumor mongers want people to believe). The (I'd warn against following this link if you're upset by pictures of hurt animals, because they have a rather graphic photo right there at the top of the page) Snopes page and the news story about it on National Geographic's site use a picture of a dog with a big hook through its snout, but apparently there's a strong theory that it's either a hoax or a miscredited picture of some poor dog that found bad luck all on its own. But somebody on the Dogs!Dogs!Dogs! group on Flickr gets hold of the story and posts a link to it, starting a huge fight about who the True Dog Lovers are and whether it's acceptable for people outside of the US of A to not hold American values (loud minority's opinion: no, it isn't) once someone else posts a link to the Snopes page on the story.

    I find Flickr wank hilarious on its own merit, because come on, they're fighting about what people should think of pictures of someone else's pets on the Internet. And I think that the people who come right out and say "I know that this is probably isn't true, but I'm outraged anyway!" are funny. But when I find myself feeling the urge to warn people to be careful of the picture in one of the links, well...I'm not quite sure that "LOL Flickrers! But OMG, don't look at that picture" doesn't sway the balance more in favor of Your Thoughts on Dogs and Sharks and Reunions and Stuff than actual lulz.

    If not that, how about the two-month long fight on the graves and cemeteries community about whether it's touching or tacky to leave things on graves?
    Monday, June 25th, 2007
    9:16 pm
    [miraba]
    I can't do this, right?
    So, there's a nice little pile of wank going on right now on the Godawful Fanfiction board.

    However, anyone wanting an account has to have it approved by the Site Guru. This is a measure to save the board from spammers and the more obvious trolls. He appears to have no problem adding most people.

    Am I right that it's still not allowed to be posted? And if so, is there any way we'd be able to post GAFF wank in the future?
    Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
    2:29 pm
    [rhosyn_du]
    This may or may not be the appropriate place to ask this question...
    ...but I didn't see any posts anywhere about it, so I thought I'd ask. Why is the rum wiki gone? Did it get moved?
    Thursday, May 17th, 2007
    10:52 pm
    [sepiamagpie]
    HELLO this is kind of a contest, except no prize beyond you get to order people around by proxy
    It occurs to me that some communities, like good old [info]clairvoyantwank and [info]i_wank and [info]fw_debate are not, in fact, userfriendly.

    Especially the first, judging from some posts.

    So I'm curious if any of you would like to make user guides for the care and handling of posting to specific comms. Picture ones. I'll post 'em in the userinfos.

    and if no one does, then god help me, I'll just post cat macros. I mean, don't hit me, Snax



    Rules:

    1. No wider than 600.
    2. SFW
    3. Spell the community name right.
    4. No furries.

    Post Them To:

    Here or mods at thefannish.org

    End Time:

    Never. This is just a 'if you ever come up with anything good and feel like sharing' save spot.
    Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
    3:17 pm
    [sepiamagpie]
    Okay, guys, I was thinking about our fandom reputation and how we're somehow 'scary' and I had a brilliant idea.


    Word emotes.


    Don't they just scream 'we're nice, friendly, and tasteful?'

    I think it could really up our membership and how we're viewed in general if we institute something like this. I've noticed some people enjoy hot-linking smilies to what they say and this could just be a continuation of their wonderful idea.


    What do you say?
    Monday, March 26th, 2007
    1:55 pm
    [vigilanterodent]
    FW vs. BP
    So there's a wank I'd like to write up a report on, having been reminded of its hilarious, hilarious existance for the first time in a couple years. However, it's very old - the earliest parts of it go back a full decade! - and it's probably one of the greatest classic wanks ever. So that would seem to suggest BP. However however, it's never been reported in FW, and I was under the impression BP was mostly for reporting our old wanks, since there's not really a freshness date on wank if it's funny enough.

    So I have no idea where I should be posting this. Any suggestions?
    Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
    5:45 pm
    [arekuru]
    Queue Moderation
    Is there any way we can tell what the status of a wank in the moderation queue is? Like, if mods just haven't gotten to the queue for a while, or if we screwed something up and the mods deleted it, or if the submission didn't go through, or whatever? Most of mine get posted pretty quickly so when one doesn't make it I always end up wondering.
    Friday, March 16th, 2007
    2:07 pm
    [apoplexia]
    Attention all wankas
    CAPSLOCK HOUSE WANK HAS BEEN DELETED LOL!! OWING TO THE PROTAGONIST BEING A MINOR LOL!!!! PLZ BE MORE CAREFUL IN FUTURE OR WE WILL BE FORCED TO CHANGE THE LAYOUT OF FANDOM_WANK TO MATCH THAT OF CAPSLOCK HOUSES FOR LULZ.

    Current Mood: GRRRRRR
    Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
    4:24 pm
    [hamsterledoom]
    But is it WANK?
    It's big, that's for sure. If wank were an infectious disease like that one in Outbreak, this would be the apocalyptic bird flu of wank, infecting everything it touches.

    Jim Zumbo is one of the biggest names in hunting/sport shooting ever to come down the pipe. He goes way beyond BNF status; he's actually sponsered by names such as Gerber, Remington and Outdoor Life magazine.

    And then he opens his mouth to insert feet. Blogging about his recent sponsored coyote shoot with the new Remington rifle, he opines, "( Your daddy's gun is teh OMG TERRORIST. )

    ( Cut again! Massive linkage here. )

    Just when you think he mkight be able to salvage his career, Sarah Brady, yes, THAT Sarah Brady, opens her mouth and pisses off millions.

    ( See? SEE? Even ebul GUN people who, liek, SHOOT n stuff think the 30.30 is Satan's Child-Killer Special. )

    Told you it was huge. I'm still hunting the umpty-billion post wanky discussions. In this case, fire=smoke. If I find them, and if this constitutes wank, it goes in OTF, yes?
    Monday, February 19th, 2007
    11:02 am
    [nymeria]
    Query
    Would this kerfluffle (over Joanna Krupa, who once dated Jensen Ackles of Supernatural) be better suited for [info]clairvoyantwank or [info]fandom_wank? There's a nice little subthread here (started by potthead, who, as one of my friends pointed out to me, was involved in this) that opens with the words 'what a skank' which is... evolving.

    ETA: Moved!

    Current Mood: Caffeinated
    Friday, February 16th, 2007
    9:34 am
    [braisinhussy]
    Just a heads-up
    lolita_fucks got suspended off of LJ. One of the members set up a community here on JF. So far, it has no members, but it might be something to keep an eye on, since there may be the same influx of underaged people that JF got when cosplayfucks tried to move over.
    Thursday, January 25th, 2007
    11:36 am
    [vigilanterodent]
    So before I post something, I'd like some advice on how to categorize it, and this is as good a place to ask as any.

    Wank about LUSH soap - [info]fandom_wank or [info]otf_wank?
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