dude. cot_tossed did not stab anyone in the back. they wrote reviews, none of which were mean-spirited or grudgey, and certainly none of which cost anyone any money. the reviews were for fics which had been nominated for awards.
plus, let's be serious here. the cot_tossed sock is not properly a sockpuppet. real sockpuppets keep their identity secret; they're not just trying to be anonymous, they're trying to fool people into believing they're someone other than who they are. cot_tossed was always honest about the fact that they were a joint account for many reviewers; they didn't go outside of their own space (except to answer a few questions at the meme), but stayed at their own comm and wrote reviews and that's it.
none of the cot_tossed reviewers were "unveiled" by anyone but themselves, and there are still plenty of them who were never unveiled, probably because they saw what happened to the others who did reveal themselves. and it's cool if you haven't seen that kind of viciousness directed at people who've talked about fic and the show under their own screenname, but the worst attacks *i've* seen have been.
i also believe the worst cot_tossed stuff was directed at people because of grudges from before cot_tossed was ever formed, and it was simply being used as an excuse to attack certain individuals. but of course, that's probably also why some of the reviewers went anon in the first place.
and yeah, they person on AIM hasn't been dogpiling me or attacking me for weeks on end, but let's be serious -- i am not a BNF. i'm not going to have people caring if i said this or that enough to do things like that, because i am not a name in fandom. so it's really not a fair comparison. but who knows, even someone as unknown as me could get unlucky -- i just happened to get someone who doesn't really have an LJ friends and who is obsessed with making me think their work is better than i think it is, not trying to make other people in fandom think i'm a troll, an asshole, a liar, mentally ill, or any of the other things i've seen leveraged at fans by grudgewankers.
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Date: 2009-05-07 04:25 pm (UTC)plus, let's be serious here. the cot_tossed sock is not properly a sockpuppet. real sockpuppets keep their identity secret; they're not just trying to be anonymous, they're trying to fool people into believing they're someone other than who they are. cot_tossed was always honest about the fact that they were a joint account for many reviewers; they didn't go outside of their own space (except to answer a few questions at the meme), but stayed at their own comm and wrote reviews and that's it.
none of the cot_tossed reviewers were "unveiled" by anyone but themselves, and there are still plenty of them who were never unveiled, probably because they saw what happened to the others who did reveal themselves. and it's cool if you haven't seen that kind of viciousness directed at people who've talked about fic and the show under their own screenname, but the worst attacks *i've* seen have been.
i also believe the worst cot_tossed stuff was directed at people because of grudges from before cot_tossed was ever formed, and it was simply being used as an excuse to attack certain individuals. but of course, that's probably also why some of the reviewers went anon in the first place.
and yeah, they person on AIM hasn't been dogpiling me or attacking me for weeks on end, but let's be serious -- i am not a BNF. i'm not going to have people caring if i said this or that enough to do things like that, because i am not a name in fandom. so it's really not a fair comparison. but who knows, even someone as unknown as me could get unlucky -- i just happened to get someone who doesn't really have an LJ friends and who is obsessed with making me think their work is better than i think it is, not trying to make other people in fandom think i'm a troll, an asshole, a liar, mentally ill, or any of the other things i've seen leveraged at fans by grudgewankers.