Wait, but what is "fun" about deaths of famous people?

Nothing. Thus, excessive griping by most of my friendslist about it, and I created deathwatch.

There is nothing in the userinfo saying that non-fun things are not allowed. It says "a place to circulate information of interest to fellow fans on JF," and "essentially if it's fannish and it doesn't belong in [info]fandom_rant or [info]fandom_wank or the other wank comms, then it can go here! "

Right. Per our previous discussion, f_l is an exile community to get nonwank off of fandom_wank.

And that's the problem. It's not that these things are not allowed. They are. But it's a community with a culture, and the culture is "fun links." The farther away from from that it gets, the more likely there is to be a problem.

Fandom_discuss has sort of died, it seems, also.

Oh, well. Politics. That's partially because it's pyratejenni's community.

I like her, but a lot of people don't. (My JF friendslist gets along like a house afire.)

It's often her style of doing things more than what she actually does, I think. She's not very diplomatic, generally, and she doesn't leaven her caprices with a lot of light humor (which helps the f_w mods get away with things like that).

She also had a series of disagreements with f_w over ginmar, which tends to make her look at a lot of people on f_w with a bit more hostility than (I think) they deserve. Anyway, all of that works together to kill her communities-- some faster than others.

Besides political issues, though, there are only a few "major" communities here: fandom_wank, otf_wank, and fandom_lounge. Everything else gets minimal use. This isn't much of anyone's primary journal system.