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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	dragonfangirl 2008-12-16 01:57 am UTC (link)
	I get skeezed out by the thought of a dominant male, but the thought of a dominant female doesn't bother me. Possibly because I've never met a domme who was obsessed with the idea that all men are secretly subs that just want to be owned and abused and just don't want to admit it, whereas I encounter this attitude all the time in male doms. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	undomielregina 2008-12-16 05:09 am UTC (link)
	...I have; there are crazy ones on both sides. I've just decided that they're all people who can't deal with the idea that they deviate from the norm, and so conceptualize their reality thus: "I am just like everyone else, therefore, when everyone else claims not to be interested in this thing I do, they must be lying." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	napalmnacey 2008-12-16 05:24 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I've had more than one dom come onto me in social websites and I'm like, "Look at my profile. I am clearly an independent, strong woman. In what deluded fantasy would I EVER be a sub?!" Dumb jerks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	undomielregina 2008-12-16 05:33 am UTC (link)
	...ouch, way to unfairly stereotype me there XD Most of the women I know who are open about their kinks are independent and strong, because it takes that kind of woman to be vocal about her sexual preferences. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2008-12-16 05:59 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't word that right. A normal, regular sub who just likes a certain kind of sex is fine. I'm talking the kind of subs some of these creepy male doms are looking for, not your normal sane kind. Again, sorry. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	undomielregina 2008-12-16 06:15 am UTC (link)
	'scool, now that I see what you're saying, I know the type you mean. Over on dot_bdsm_snark, they get called "doormats". (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2008-12-16 06:27 am UTC (link)
	Phew! Heh, that's probably much nicer than what they get called by their doms. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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