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Tangle of Toy ([info]funkyhelix) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-03-06 09:12:00
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Toothpaste - it not what's for dinner!

No soupRSS for you, Livejournal!

The webcomic creator of Toothpaste for Dinner decides that everyone can use his rss feed except for LJ. Why? Because people say bad things about his comic, and he can't turn off the feed comments.


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[info]photosinensis
2006-03-06 03:24 pm UTC (link)
Wow. If this guy is that touchy, perhaps he shouldn't be contributing to Intarwebs culture, where feedback is generally encouraged.

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[info]eilan
2006-03-06 03:27 pm UTC (link)
I've clicked on a few of the entries and saw noone saying anything bad.

Is anyone forcing that guy to read the comments?

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[info]xero_sky
2006-03-06 03:46 pm UTC (link)
I spend too much time doing all of this and trying to provide free drawings and content to have people trash it.

I weep for his sensitive artistic soul.

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[info]female_fanboy
2006-03-07 02:25 pm UTC (link)
Well, welcome to the internet world of art.

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[info]beccastareyes
2006-03-06 04:06 pm UTC (link)
So... what? Turning off comments doesn't really prevent people from saying things about the comic -- I mean, I take about webcomics in my personal LJ, or to friends over instant messenging services. The same with fic and art. The only way to keep people from saying bad things about your comic is to keep it in a shoebox under your bed, and not on the Internet.

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[info]karmakaze
2006-03-06 09:54 pm UTC (link)
That's an ugly shoebox! And I bet it does mean things there, cowering under the bed! It's the bad influence from the art inside.

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[info]unluckylasers
2006-03-06 04:24 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I love the comic, it's pretty funny, but I'm also on the mailing list--a little while back he threw a fit because a bunch of people corrected something he said. I don't the e-mail anymore, but it was all about how he makes the mailing list for fun, not to have people correct him, etc. So this sounds about right.

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[info]becktionary
2006-03-06 04:31 pm UTC (link)
He's stopped doing the whole mass email thing--I think partly because people had the nerve to tell him that oh, yeah, Arby's meat doesn't actually start out as liquid. Now he's just blogging-slash-presenting-comics as [info]drewtoothpaste.

Much as I love his comic, Drew just needs to chill out. Majorly.

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[info]sabinelagrande
2006-03-06 07:09 pm UTC (link)
Your username? It is win.

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[info]delcj
2006-03-07 07:30 am UTC (link)
yeah...now i'm sort of glad that i read Toothpaste for Dinner on a gj-feed, because i feel less like a target of his vitriol. apparently he's mad only at the people who read & comment on the lj-feed. *shrug*

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[info]coffee_mug
2006-03-06 05:52 pm UTC (link)
Dude, WTF. Nobody ragged on anything, rather, he just didn't like people commenting, period.

from here
It's a drag because I don't like it, and I'm asking you to stop because I think it is a drag.

I didn't put my site up to collect comments from livejournal users, so please stop posting them here. If you guys can't control your impulse to click "POST" and comment on my drawings I will take down the feed.

The TFD LJ community is dead because none of its 500-odd users post anything interesting, at all, ever. The only thing anyone has to say about anything I make is "I liked that one" or "I didn't get that one" which doesn't really leave a lot of room for any kind of productive discussion.

So... have some dignity, don't reply to the RSS feed. Thanks in advance for keeping this an OK page to look at.

What's wrong with people saying "I liked that one" or "I didn't get that one"?

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[info]esclaramonde
2006-03-06 07:41 pm UTC (link)
What's wrong with people saying "I liked that one" or "I didn't get that one"?

Perhaps he wants to have a fandom for his comic. People will have indepth discussions on the characters' lives and such.

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[info]coffee_mug
2006-03-06 07:54 pm UTC (link)
I might believe that if his comics appeared to have plots and characters with personalities.

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[info]unluckylasers
2006-03-06 08:00 pm UTC (link)
Well, there is Robarb the serial-killer guy. But the rest are just Generic Guy.

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[info]eljuno
2006-03-06 08:53 pm UTC (link)
And the hamsters. Don't forget the hamsters.

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[info]soy_latte
2006-03-06 05:58 pm UTC (link)
I love how someone replies to him with one of his own comics to tell him what a whiner he is.

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[info]symbeline
2006-03-06 06:24 pm UTC (link)
I sort of understand where he's coming from. Would it be that hard for LJ to have a disable-comments feature?

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[info]eilan
2006-03-06 06:43 pm UTC (link)
Er, it has.

But if you are referring to RSS feeds, who would be allowed to do that?

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[info]feloniousfeline
2006-03-06 07:02 pm UTC (link)
*patpats* Poor, baby. Life is hard. Not everyone gives you a cookie.

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[info]rogue
2006-03-06 07:23 pm UTC (link)
Artists who don't like people reacting to their work have missed something HUGE about being an artist...

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[info]mousy_345e4
2006-03-07 08:12 am UTC (link)
Just it all, yes?

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[info]esclaramonde
2006-03-06 07:50 pm UTC (link)
I don't really understand the people who are annoyed about having to friend him because he'll be able to see their entries. I don't think he's going around, reading other people's f-locked entries because they added him to see his comic. But then, I think I make an f-locked post for reasons other than "I don't want a particular person to read this" more than once a year, so what do I know.

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[info]issendai
2006-03-07 09:50 pm UTC (link)
I can see it. All you need is to piss off one artist whom you thought was a normal person, and BOOM! wanksplosion.

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[info]pipssister
2006-03-06 08:50 pm UTC (link)
I seriously have never understood why so many webcomic artists feel they are above criticism. I really don't.

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[info]issendai
2006-03-07 09:54 pm UTC (link)
Because the instant you get more than ten fans, you are Validated as an Artist and are therefore in a different class of humanity. You can be criticized by someone with more fans than you, but the effect of any artist's criticism is immediately drowned out by the shrill piping of a thousand teenaged fangirls and fanboys, so it hardly counts.

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[info]radiotrash
2006-03-06 09:32 pm UTC (link)
Meh, I looked at both his comics and fail to see the appeal.

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[info]annabelle_lee
2006-03-07 06:46 am UTC (link)
Me too. What's the sense in being proud of something any schmuck could draw with a computer mouse and a fifth of vodka?

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[info]polemic
2006-03-07 02:51 am UTC (link)
I knew all those Morrissey references were non coincidence!

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[info]oxydosic
2006-03-07 03:59 am UTC (link)
What a wanker. Seriously, if he doesn't want people commenting on his comic, or having any opinion about it (other than positive of course) then why does he even bother publishing it on the web?

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[info]juvenilia
2006-03-07 06:27 am UTC (link)
Anyone else getting the feeling that the cryabetes comic was autobiographical? Just sayin'.

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