Dara Sue

And now for our semi-annual post...

2004-12-23T19:33:51Z

Cassie Claire and MsAllegro are really sock puppets for some grad student doing a dissertation on "Just how stupid is fandom, anyway?"

Discuss.

All right, I confess...

2004-06-26T01:07:45Z

I voted for the deletion, because I'd had the same idea. Not out of any high-and-mighty sooper-seekrit agenda, but just because I thought it would be funny.

Somebody someplace asked how people who were there for the original TOSings could find all of this funny. Well, I'll tell you, I find it funny because I was there. LJ_Abuse stomping on new F_W incarnations within minutes of their creation? Funny. Getting banned for life for telling LJ_Abuse to chug cock? Funny.

Also aggravating and retarded, yes, but funny.

And if ZR had decided to ban us all for asshaberdashery above and beyond the call of duty, that would have been funny in its own way, too.

Now, for the really important stuff...

Who should be the new mods of F_W? Check all that apply:

[ ] arkane156
[ ] sorchar
[ ] backfromspace
[ ] hugsnkisses
[ ] renjenri
[ ] flutterg
[ ] phosfate
[ ] oulangi
[ ] telesilla
[ ] sagralisse
[ ] anatsuno
[ ] bnfshavemorefun
[ ] phoenix
[ ] rann
[ ] nessa_t
[ ] Stormfreak
[ ] Te
[ ] Sarah T.
[ ] CrystalGamgee
[ ] Cassie Claire
[ ] Msallegro
[ ] "Jordan Wood"
[ ] George W. Bush
[ ] Michael Moore
[ ] Cthulhu
[ ] John Travolta's crotch
[ ] Your mom
[ ] Other (please specify)

Another $0.11 on the topic of the hour.

2004-06-24T05:55:05Z

No, I wasn't the one who deleted F_W. But only because I couldn't decide how long to leave it deleted for maximum funny. And I bet nobody would have suspected me, because I was the Lurking Mod.

Dude, seriously. The very fact that F_W is now being referred to as some kind of significant fannish institution is reason enough to delete it, never mind the asshats and the people bitching about the asshats. Because the whole point of creating F_W in the first place was to point and laugh at people who TAKE STUPID FANDOM SHIT TOO FUCKING SERIOUSLY.

On the plus side, however, there's a weird kind of symmetry to the fact that a little over a year ago, we had site admins terminating F_W with extreme prejudice, and now we have site admins forcefully resurrecting it.

Hahahahaha

2004-06-23T20:44:33Z

I like it. I think we should keep it.

See, you can't keep FW down. The Spirit of Wank transcends all TOSings, even pretend ones.

(And I guess I never answered comments on my last entry a million years ago. Sorry, guys. If the anon(s) are still reading, no, I never did plead my case to lj_abuse, but since they gave a cut-n-paste reply to the moderator of ideology_wank which was TOSed on even more spurious grounds than FW, I figured it was kind of pointless to even bother.)

P.S. Bradfitz still chugs goat cock.

Is that the delicate lilt of BULLSHIT I hear?

2004-03-23T13:51:45Z

From the head LJ_abuse wanker's attempt to rationalize the fuckwittery of his/her colleagues:

With a few very, very specific exceptions (journals created solely to spam, journals full of nothing but images of goatse and tubgirl, journals created to impersonate and harass another user such as with a slight variation of their username, defaced pictures of the user, and harassing entries, etc) each user who is in violation will receive at least one and as many as three emails before suspension giving you a chance to fix what's wrong before permanent suspension. If someone tells you that they did not receive an email, they either are lying (see earlier point) or their spam filters ate the email (sad, but not our problem).

BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT.

I and the owners of the other suspended *wank communities can personally attest that we never got one damn WORD from these assmonkeys before our comms and my personal journal were suspended.

Nowhere in f_w's info were users ever advised to go into subject's personal journals and troll them. The majority of f_w's membership had the sense to realize that, hello, why would you want to interact with any of those wankers if you didn't have to? And nowhere in the LJ TOS did it say that talking about other people's public posts in your own journal/comm was considered ban-on-sight behavior.

So, in summary: LJ_Abuse continues to be full of shit. But none of you are surprised, I'm sure.

This entry brought to you by the Ministry of Restimulated Resentment

2004-03-14T05:33:35Z

Dear LJ Abuse team...

If every quark in every atom in every molecule in the known universe were blown up to the size of Jupiter and arranged to form a gigantic hand flipping the bird, it still would not adequately express how very much I want you guys to fuck off.

You are such lackwits that George W. Bush snickers condescendingly at your complete absence of intellectual prowess. You are such spineless pussies that an invertebrate kitten could kick your asses.

May your cars develop annoying rattles that disappear in the presence of a mechanic. May your TiVos refuse to record anything but "Nashville Star." May your Outlook Express forward your XXX Farm Animals links to everyone at your office. May you develop a persistent case of ulcerated hemorrhoids. May your genitalia forever smell of day-old prawns.

Had I the money, I would cheerfully rent billboards in both downtown Hollywood and Clearwater, FL, reading "SCIENTOLOGY SUCKS AND L. RON HUBBARD BLOWS LLAMAS IN HELL. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL bradfitz." But since I don't have the money, I will have to content myself with merely sending copious quantities of bad vibes your way. And one day, when the power of my sheer unadulterated hate reaches critical mass and causes your heads to spontaneously implode from thousands of miles away... don't say I didn't warn you.

Love,

DaraSue

ahem Your attention, please...

2004-02-20T00:09:05Z

Dear fundamentalist asswipes:

A stupid, misinformed and bigoted opinion is no less stupid, misinformed or bigoted just because your imaginary friend in the sky agrees with you.

Love,

DaraSue

Blah blah blah...

2003-12-05T00:44:29Z

Answered a few comments from eons and eons ago.

Debating whether I should delete this journal. I never use it except for reading various snark communities on the friendslist, and Paypal hates my credit card so I feel guilty about being here sucking up bandwidth when I can't get a paid account.

I guess what I'm trying to say here is, "meh."

GIP!

2003-10-02T05:30:16Z

Make a note of it, Dan.

AAAAAAAAAAH!

2003-10-02T04:21:22Z

Re-Animator Mary-Sue!

I repeat: RE-ANIMATOR MARY-SUE!

But the really scary part is that I'm going to read it for the OMG HOT VICARIOUS HERBERT WEST SEX THRILLS. I am a sick, sad individual.

P.S. LiveJournal sucks ass.

P.P.S. Didn't I used to have a HW usericon? I must see if I can find it, if it actually existed.

[Aaaaah! It's more horrible than I possibly could have imagined! *eyefork*]

[But at least I found my icon. And quite apropos it is, too.]

Iiiiii'm in the moooood for waaaaaaank...

2003-07-31T01:26:47Z

Feeling particularly low-toned today, despite having gotten a decent amount of sleep and doing fairly well at [thing I do that I don't talk about in fannish public anymore for fear of hazardous levels of RL wank]. Thus, some random rant/rambling I've been meaning to do for ages.

I remember my first Escapade, some five or so year ago, and driving home afterwards, how I felt like I'd never seen so many brilliant, beautiful women all in one place before. I felt high on fannish energy and enthusiasm. I felt like I'd finally found someplace where I belonged.

So how did I get from there to "why the fuck did I ever give a shit what any of these aberrated assholes think?"

(Okay, that's not exactly a comparison between like objects since I've never hated anybody I've met at a con - to the contrary, some people I thought were jerks online turned out to be cool in person, but you know what I mean.)

(Oh, wait, I met Te at a con once, but I didn't hate her at the time, because I didn't realize what a hypocritical, psycho twat she was until several months later. But anyway...)

I guess 95% of my enchantment with fandom went swirling during the first go-round of RPS wars, back in, oh, 1999 or so. (Damn, that long ago?) Suddenly all kinds of people whom I thought were cool and open-minded were acting like judgemental, homophobic, hypocritical holier-than-thou jerks. Suffice it to say, fandom didn't feel quite so much like home anymore. And I'm sure the anti-RPS crowd would say that I brought all the bad feelings on myself for writing the eeevil, eeevil slash about poor defenseless celebrities who aren't attention whores at all and would be scandalized, scandalized at the thought of themselves in a same-sex couple despite the fact that they camp it up with their same-sex friends in front of the whole fucking world, but what-evah.

Four of the remaining five percent died of terminal annoyance during the whole fandom_wank debacle. And the most off-putting thing about the repeated TOSings of FW and my personal journals wasn't that it happened at all, it was that it could have been worse. That if I weren't as scrupulous as I am about not having identifying personal information on the net, I could have had some fucking psycho fan(s) calling my house, calling my job to try and get me fired, calling the TIPS line and telling the FBI I'm a terrorist, or any other fucking hideous thing, and all because I encouraged people to stick pins in a few overinflated BNF egos and have a laugh about the stupid fucking shit fans find to fight about.

You know the funny part? I'm still not sorry for any of it. If I had the last five years to do over again, I would have done it the exact same way (except I would have saved all of my LJ comment notifications instead of just most of them). Because I don't think it's ever a bad thing to know the truth about people, even if the truth is that they're assholes. And because even amidst all the wankery, I still managed to meet a lot of cool people who have made my life that much more amusing/interesting for their participation in it.

That 1% of my enthusiam that's still there is what keeps me going to slash cons and reading the fannish things my journal friends post. I like seeing people at cons and reading their squeeing over various obsessions. I just don't have the gumption to do any squeeing of my own anymore. And I think I've finally, over the last few months, come to accept that fandom is something I used to be into.

...

Next time: why fandom is like Scientology.

Hey, LiveJournal, try not to chug any cock on your way through the parking lot!

2003-06-15T18:36:11Z

Well, seeing as a) it's been a while since I did any ranty entheta comm (pun intended) over here, b) I've been meaning to restore the posts about my LJ demise of several months ago for... several months, and c) I haven't had a decent night's sleep in four days and when I'm cranky, everyone gets a slice, I present:

My post, in which I copy my comments in Tangletoy's LJ that led to my banning:

[in reply to this post]

WORD. WORDY MC-FUCKING-WORD.

I had a paid account before I got TOSed before, and between the abuse staff's insane, paranoid power-tripping, the posting limits and the icon-limit blackmail, these assholes have done fuck-all to inspire me to ever pay them again. To paraphrase Mike Markkula, they seriously have to decide whether they're a bunch of punks fucking around in a garage or they're running a goddamn business. Sadly, it would appear it's the former. Oh the plus side, I guess I can look forward to pointing and laughing at them on Fucked Company's Happy Fun Slander Corner sometime soon.

-the user formerly known as arkane156

[and part 2]

You know what? Fuck it. If they want to ban me again for saying out loud what shitloads of people are already thinking, then so be it. I could use an excuse to move my main journal over to JournalFen so I won't have to feel guilty about hanging around here when I have such complete contempt for the way this place is run.

[yeah.]

LJ shill crshmidt tells me that I got banned for admitting that I created another account to evade suspension:

Just so you know?

"I had a paid account before I got TOSed before" bad thing to say.

Creating an account to evade suspension is a direct violation of the Terms of Service on LiveJournal. as such, any accounts created to evade suspension are suspended automatically.

So, in this case, you got suspended for making it clear that you had been suspended before. And abuse has the crazy mad ninja tools to find that shit out.

Now, if you want to complain about your original TOS, that's something different. Although, based on the fact you're at journalfen, i'd guess it had something to do with fandom_wank, which wouldn't surprise me to see people suspended for. I've seen it before, and I'll see it again, I'm sure.

ANyway. Not speaking about other things. just my two cents.

I ask how it was possible for my entheta account to have been created for purposes of evading suspension, when it was created and used regularly a month before arkane156 got TOSed:

I had that account for a month before my original one was TOSed. I used it for posts I thought were too wanky to share with my usual readership. Then I pressed it into active service after the TOSing so I could keep in touch with my friends. I was not using it to flame or otherwise harrass other users at any point (except that one time when I bitched about that White Power moron - nice to see people like her are allowed to stay, while I get the boot).

My first account, which I'd had for nearly three years, most of that time paid for, was not used for flaming or harrassing other users either, except in the context of being the moderator of fandom_wank, and all I have to say about that is that LJ's definition of "harrassment", unlike that of most sane English-speaking people, apparently includes "linking to public webpages and snarking about them in a completely separate community." At no time were f_w users encouraged to go into subjects' journals and flame them, and to my knowledge few if any ever did. Which the abuse team would have known had they bothered to TALK TO ME (or the wanktastic or ideology_wank owners) before they shitcanned f_w, the two successive incarnations, and my personal journal.

I repeat: LJ needs to start running their business like A FUCKING BUSINESS. Telling the support staff to quit arbitrarily applying a vaguely-worded TOS for the pursuit of stupid personal vendettas would be a good start.

To which my correspondent responds with a deafening silence. If I were feeling charitable, I'd attribute it to the fact that JF had that server wackiness later that evening resulting in all of the posts quoted herein disappearing. However, I'm not feeling charitable, so I'll just presume it's because he knows I'm right about the assholery of the lj_abuse team.

So, there you have it. One bad day and you're persona non grata around LJ, no matter how long you've had your journal(s) or how much money you've spent on them. You know, if I were running a business where only 5% of my customers actually paid for my services, I think I'd be a little more careful about not pissing the paying users off. Of course, that's probably because I'm not a clueless, arrogant dot-com fuckwit who'd be temperamentally better suited to being a playground monitor than overseeing a corporation. See you on FuckedCompany, Brad.

Thought for this evening...

2003-05-14T01:43:53Z

This stupid database project I'm working on would probably have been done weeks ago if I weren't always working on it at the end of the day when I'm feeling the most tired/hungry/braindead.

***

Don't worry, y'all haven't been missing any gleefully mean-spirited friends-locked entries, because I haven't been making any. Or any entries here, period. Or any entries much of anywhere else, either. Too busy/tired/apathetic about fandom.

Maybe this weekend I'll get around to some long-overdue bitchery. And mailing various long-overdue packages to various people to whom I owe them. Seriously, I don't know why you guys put up with me.

Somewhere I have syxer7's old Blurty f_w layout that she sent me ages ago. Any of the mods (hopefully y'all know who you are, cuz I sure as hell haven't been keeping track) feeling artistically inclined and want to tweak it for JF?

Public service announcement:

2003-04-25T22:12:05Z

Just in case any of you were wondering, Windows XP sucks ass like the annual meeting of the Worldwide Felchers' Society.

We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.

Shit! Shit! Shit!

2003-04-25T00:02:37Z

I just got a call from some survey-drone asking me some stupid shit about how many magazines I read, and I answered her questions because I didn't have anything else pressing to do and I thought the "nice surprise" she promised might be something I could actually *use*, but then at the end it turns out it's 60 issues of Woman's Day, for which they expect me to pay for shipping costs. And I told her about five times that I didn't want it, but I just know they're going to send me this shit and bill me for it anyway, and then refer me to a collection agency if I don't pay, and totally fuck my credit, and AAAAAAARRRRGHHHHH!

...

Oh, what? Fandom stuff? Eh, whatever. Don'tcha know it's all about me, me, me?

Will restore the entries about my latest LJ demise if they don't come back on their own. Also, will make long rambling post about Angel, Scientology, fandom, and what those things all have to do with one another. Also, will see if I can make entire icon-set using only John Travolta's crotch. Later.

Added a bunch of people as friends so they can see my friends-locked entries, and also in the hopes that they'll add me back so I can read *their* horrifically bitchy screeds. If they don't actually have any, I shall be dreadfully disappointed.

arkane156 @ 2003-04-01T09:58:00

2003-04-01T17:55:50Z

Also, can anyone explain the origin of "P.S. Sam was a gardener"? I'm assuming it's something to do with Any Two Guys LotRfic, but I could be wrong.