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Megan (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gamera) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank,@ 2004-08-10 23:04:00 |
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I've never really wanked anything before, but this was just too insane to pass up (if only a baby wank)- European history wank, of all things.
The LiveJournal community for European History has always had a strong and public anti-Nazi/white supremacy stance. Academic discussions of Nazi Germany were fine, anything beyond that wasn't. Such a clear policy was needed because apparently, anyone who wants to study the history of white people in any form comes across as a total racist.
Recently, a
The LiveJournal community for European History has always had a strong and public anti-Nazi/white supremacy stance. Academic discussions of Nazi Germany were fine, anything beyond that wasn't. Such a clear policy was needed because apparently, anyone who wants to study the history of white people in any form comes across as a total racist.
Recently, a
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I've never really wanked anything before, but this was just too insane to pass up (if only a baby wank)- <i>European history wank</i>, of all things.
The LiveJournal community for <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=europe_history" target=resource window>European History</a> has always had a strong and public anti-Nazi/white supremacy stance. Academic discussions of Nazi Germany were fine, anything beyond that wasn't. Such a clear policy was needed because apparently, anyone who wants to study the history of white people in any form comes across as a total racist.
Recently, a <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=nazi_regime" target=resource window">community supposedly dedicated to academic discussion of the Third Reich</a> advertised in the community. The moderator took a look around, decided that the views there took a definite white supremacist slant, and deleted the advertisement post as violating the community's rules. Now, it <i>could</i> have stopped there and spared us this headache, but this is the internet. Things <i>never</i> stop before causing a headache on the internet.
The moderator then went on to make a <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/europe_history/34659.html" target=resource window>post about how anyone joining this group (or a similar group) would be banned from the community by mere association</a>, which started a small-scale battle. Said moderator then went on to appoint several co-moderators <i>without the permission of said moderators</i>.
I should note here that this so-called "acadedmic community" has friendslocked itself down, and made it plain in its userinfo that "some views may be biased." So wow, they're admitting that it's not an academic community, and the European History moderator was right all along- except now the wank is going in a whole different direction.
You see, one of the moderators that was unknowingly appointed came in and made a post about how he's tried to reach the moderator by e-mail and hasn't gotten a response. He's not exactly keen on moderating a community that bans people by association, apparently. The post has been since deleted from the community, but he's also <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/klig/263433.html" target=resource window>crossposted it to his own journal</a>, so you can still see it.
This post seemed to <i>me</i> a rational one, but it sent the community maintainer into what appears to be a royal fit. He makes a <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/europe_history/36119.html">cryptic post about the community being closed</a> (though he doesn't make it clear whether that means "closed joining" or totally ending the community), and turns off all comments for every post in the entire community. Including those that have to do with, you know, <i>European history</i>.
Oh, you academics. Whatever are we going to do with you?
The LiveJournal community for <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=europe_history" target=resource window>European History</a> has always had a strong and public anti-Nazi/white supremacy stance. Academic discussions of Nazi Germany were fine, anything beyond that wasn't. Such a clear policy was needed because apparently, anyone who wants to study the history of white people in any form comes across as a total racist.
Recently, a <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=nazi_regime" target=resource window">community supposedly dedicated to academic discussion of the Third Reich</a> advertised in the community. The moderator took a look around, decided that the views there took a definite white supremacist slant, and deleted the advertisement post as violating the community's rules. Now, it <i>could</i> have stopped there and spared us this headache, but this is the internet. Things <i>never</i> stop before causing a headache on the internet.
The moderator then went on to make a <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/europe_history/34659.html" target=resource window>post about how anyone joining this group (or a similar group) would be banned from the community by mere association</a>, which started a small-scale battle. Said moderator then went on to appoint several co-moderators <i>without the permission of said moderators</i>.
I should note here that this so-called "acadedmic community" has friendslocked itself down, and made it plain in its userinfo that "some views may be biased." So wow, they're admitting that it's not an academic community, and the European History moderator was right all along- except now the wank is going in a whole different direction.
You see, one of the moderators that was unknowingly appointed came in and made a post about how he's tried to reach the moderator by e-mail and hasn't gotten a response. He's not exactly keen on moderating a community that bans people by association, apparently. The post has been since deleted from the community, but he's also <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/klig/263433.html" target=resource window>crossposted it to his own journal</a>, so you can still see it.
This post seemed to <i>me</i> a rational one, but it sent the community maintainer into what appears to be a royal fit. He makes a <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/europe_history/36119.html">cryptic post about the community being closed</a> (though he doesn't make it clear whether that means "closed joining" or totally ending the community), and turns off all comments for every post in the entire community. Including those that have to do with, you know, <i>European history</i>.
Oh, you academics. Whatever are we going to do with you?
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