Please! Hold me back!

[vaznetti]

I've been watching what looks to me like the well-educated version of an Internet Retard Slapfight (corollary: The Internet Is For Retards) over on fca-l. Do not, if you have any regard for me, allow me to get involved. My response would essentially be as follows:

1) You're so wrong! Neener, neener, neener!
2) And anyway, who died and made you the boss of everything?

So I think I ought to be able to control myself. The varieties of fannish experience never cease to amaze me.

Comments

[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

Oh, fca-l. I had to go on digest for that one; the snooty superiority wafting from 98.7% of the individual posts drove me crazy. What's this one about, the zine vs. internet and how the internet has ruined fandom?

:::rolls eyes:::

[vaznetti]

How dod you guess? Yes, that's it exactly. People who use the internet are immature and rude. I think it's interesting, to be honest, because having been involved in both eras, my experience is the exact opposite.

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Having also been involved in both internet and paper-based fandoms - to some extent I still am - I have to say that I've not seen a lot of difference between the two, either in manners or quality.

Sock puppets aren't new to the internet; they just work differently. And I've seen fandoms in both places shatter into little tiny splinters when personalities or concepts or evolutions in the fandom rub people up the wrong way. Human nature will out, whatever the medium.

[vaznetti]

Human nature will out, whatever the medium.

I couldn't agree more.

[spican.livejournal.com]

Please! Hold me back!

*grabs Vanzetti by the elbow in a firm hold and speaks in soothing tones* C'mon my dear, let's go and have an interesting talk about your Nina/Krycek prospect instead...

(I do understand the wish to say "Neener neener", because often it does indeed feel like the most pertinent response, but...)

[vaznetti]

C'mon my dear, let's go and have an interesting talk about your Nina/Krycek prospect instead...

Or I could do something useful, like beta your story... Unfortunately due the the RL stuff I didn't get as much work done on that as I'd hoped. I could also write my lyric wheel piece, which I've hit a wall on... So OK, no IRS for me.

[chriswife.livejournal.com]

Don't do it! ;)

But please tell me where I can go to look at it. ;)

[vaznetti]

It's on fca-l on yahoogroups. It's very "Please, please, get your heads out of your asses!" in that well-reasoned way. Not so much with the fireworks, though.