Current mood:	Entertained
Entry tags:	i'd prefer the gorn, plagiarism, sockpuppets, still not funny

Infighting, the best spectator sport
Bear with me, because this one's been fermenting for a while. Note: no links are guaranteed SFW, given the nature of the community.

Way back in September, user morilkasstory was posting (really, really bad, imo) poetry to the lj BDSM community male_dom, and users were complaining. In October, there was a major wank, and the situation threatened to descend into all out war between male_dom and dot_bdsm_snark. There was a very funny post by drcruel and that seemed to be the end of things. (Full disclaimer, I participated in this a little.)

Things were quiet until this month (although there was more poetry), when sheobeys entered the scene. Her first post comes the same day as morilkasstory's last one. This post ignites a different war, one that sheobeys has continued to ignite on several occasions. Her second post is particularly important, because that's where the first accusation of plagiarism happens. There's also at least one deleted post in this time (no caps, sadly

After some doings in locked posts, the community gets this little gem. In the comments, hitonihi links to all sheobeys' articles found on a Gorean website. Community reaction is basically "lol, wtf?"

Then, there was another deleted post, directing people to pictures...promptly followed by a similarly incomprehensible post by dadawg105. There is some confusion in the comments, but people assume he is sheobeys' master.

Then, maidenofmidian drops the bombshell you all probably knew was coming: she thinks sheobeys and morilkasstory are the same person. They both plagiarized from the same Gorean website, and they share the same habit of never responding to comments. The community explodes into a flurry of does it matter? and you're a bitch, so why should we believe you?. Of particular note is the mod's response to the plagiarism. No one is suggesting yet that dadawg105 is also a sock, but it seems only a matter of time. Regardless, the community seems to have been the recipient of well-planned and concentrated trolling for a number of months.

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serai
2008-12-15 08:11 pm UTC (link)

Absolutely. Yeah sure, it's creepy if you want to think about it as if it were real. It's funny in that Eye of Argon way, though in Norman's defense, one can say that at least he understood how to spell and punctuate correctly. But oh, the wonderful agony of the prose! It's hilarious. Here's an explanation I once wrote, where I tried to describe the style:

"For those of you who have not had the...pleasure... the Gor novels, by John Norman (pseudonym of a real live Harvard English professor!), are a series of hideously written scifi-fantasy novels about an "alternate Earth" called Gor, in which manly men, who are manly because they know the True Way of Things, that way being the way that allows them to be manly, unlike the unmanly men of Earth who are definitely NOT manly, or men, but are of Earth, and not of Gor...where was I? Oh yeah. The Gor novels are about the struggles of the manly populace to rule over the slaves, who are women, mostly, because it is the True Way of Things for women to be slaves, beautiful slaves. In silk. And collars. Beautiful collars, which are beautiful because they are slave collars, placed around the necks of the beautiful slaves by their manly owners...DAMMIT.

*ahem* Start again!

For those of you who have not had the pleasure, the Gor novels are exceedingly wordy books about war and sex and gender relations on a planet called Gor. THAT'S ALL."

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	queencallipygos 2008-12-16 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah sure, it's creepy if you want to think about it as if it were real. ...There are some people out there that are making it real. As in, they read the books and thought, "ah, that is the way in which I shall henceforward live," and they do. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

serai
2008-12-19 03:09 am UTC (link)

Meh. They're indulging their fantasies in private with people who are of like minds. It's none of my business what they do to get off - there are certainly kinks and weirdness for everybody out there.

I meant "real" in the sense of an entire society based on the ideas, where the participants would really be slaves in the authentic sense - people shanghaied against their wills to be raped and beaten and worked to death eventually. That's a whole world of difference from the pathetic game-playing these pseudo-Goreans do. Now if they really were kidnapping people the way, say Jeffrey Dahmer did, real criminal offenses, then I'd say it's an awful thing. Otherwise...*shrug* Different strokes for different folks, as the saying goes.

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	lady_jafaria 2008-12-22 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	As if they weren't creepy enough, now I'm picturing Mojo Jojo as the source of these redundant quotes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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