Don't think this qualifies as fandom, so OTF_ it is.

Blair is the blogger/proprietor of STFU, Parents, a user-generated blog that culls parents oversharing on Facebook. It's been around since February '09. (Featured on this comm last August.)

She posted on Facebook this morning about a slapped-together article on msn.com, "15 Things Moms Overshare on Facebook", with obviously fake statuses. (Statii?) STFUP blurs out last names, but the msn.com examples have no space for last names, and I'd like to see a real baby announcement (#5) with zero likes on it.

While Blair is very upset about this, her readers are extremely mixed. 250+ comments so far, fairly evenly divided between "call a copyright lawyer, down with this sort of thing" and "it might be a coincidence, I missed the part where you are the only one who can do this sort of thing". Blair in the comments as well, getting snotty as time goes by, which is always fun.

"I never said anyone has to agree with me. But I would never tell someone whose page and blog I read for free that they're "whining" over a corporation stealing ideas. That's rude and unsupportive." [cite] (I personally would have thrown in a "buy my book!") "I do not have a monopoly on the concept of mocking parent overshare with biting criticism. I invented the concept. If someone steals my exact ideas, that's stupid. I am allowed to be annoyed about it." [cite] "Does calling me a foolish whiner have a purpose? Or are you just trying to hurt my feelings? Just checking." [cite]

And to hit the Bingo, there's definitely a bit of deleting going on in the comments. (Marshall Lilly who?)

Good times.

STFU Parents is a blog about parents who overshare or otherwise wank it up on social media, especially Facebook. It's a snarky but relatively gentle sort of blog, for the most part.

The trouble starts when the NYT posts an article about Unbaby.me, a Chrome app designed to replace pictures of babies on Facebook feeds with pictures of . . . other stuff. The Times article mentions various "anti-baby" sites and blogs. It also quotes the STFU Parents tagline ("You used to be fun. Now you have a baby.") with no citation of any kind. No link to the blog, no mention of the blog's name.

B., the owner of STFU Parents, is not pleased. After posting about it on Twitter and Facebook and writing to The Times (which results in a hilariously wanky exchange of emails between B. and The Times' "Senior Editor for Standards"), she makes a lengthy post summing up the whole debacle on the STFU Parents blog.

The Times' excuse? They couldn't possibly publish or even link to an acronym that includes the word "fuck" in The Times, which is a CLASSY newspaper.

Salon and The Atlantic Wire have weighed in on the issue.

The comments on the STFU Parents post are pretty sane for the most part, but there is some entertaining Internet Lawyering (including a lengthy debate about whether B. needed permission to post the emails from the NYT editor -- kind of a moot issue, since she had his permission) and trolling. My favorite in the latter category: "I personally also think you should just get over it. Who cares, he just said the tagline. Do you own the tagline?" Followed, of course, by a small dogpile of "Yes, yes she does."