pretty much the exact opposite of what you're trying to make it look like i said.
I'm not trying to deliberately twist your words; I'm saying what it looked like to me. "If I read it right"... and with clarification, I did not read it right.
However, i'm not going to tell people that because i've experienced fandom in one way they're obliged to experience it that way too.
When I've watched history repeat itself in almost the exact same way for multiple decades and multiple fandoms, I've got good reason to say "all my experience says this is how it's going to end." At some point I'm going to have to find my first post when I found out about CoT Tossed because I accurately predicted then what would happen - and I was told I didn't understand fandom. Now that it has happened, I'm told I don't understand fandom. I'm predicting that if the other anonymous review communities have traffic they are also going to have identical meltdowns and hard feelings, which probably just goes to show that I'm the ego that ate Manhattan and expect everyone to dance to my tune because it's so obvious that I don't understand fandom.
The lesson I've always taken from this is that going anonymous is a really bad idea that will lead directly to a lot of hard feelings and harassment when the anon's identity is known. The lesson that I see being taken is that unmasking is a really bad idea that leads directly to a lot of hard feelings and harassment... which skips the weak point that identities can be outed as well as revealed. I've seen plenty of that too.
Whatever. I've seen routes to fans writing reviews that lead to a lot of pain and heartbreak. I've seen routes to fans writing reviews that lead to a lot of free stuff. I believe in stating opinions openly and taking whatever lumps come from that, so I have and I have. No one is obligated to agree with me or believe I know what I'm talking about.
Even when I say "X is going to happen" and it does.
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Date: 2009-05-08 01:05 am (UTC)I'm not trying to deliberately twist your words; I'm saying what it looked like to me. "If I read it right"... and with clarification, I did not read it right.
However,
i'm not going to tell people that because i've experienced fandom in one way they're obliged to experience it that way too.
When I've watched history repeat itself in almost the exact same way for multiple decades and multiple fandoms, I've got good reason to say "all my experience says this is how it's going to end." At some point I'm going to have to find my first post when I found out about CoT Tossed because I accurately predicted then what would happen - and I was told I didn't understand fandom. Now that it has happened, I'm told I don't understand fandom. I'm predicting that if the other anonymous review communities have traffic they are also going to have identical meltdowns and hard feelings, which probably just goes to show that I'm the ego that ate Manhattan and expect everyone to dance to my tune because it's so obvious that I don't understand fandom.
The lesson I've always taken from this is that going anonymous is a really bad idea that will lead directly to a lot of hard feelings and harassment when the anon's identity is known. The lesson that I see being taken is that unmasking is a really bad idea that leads directly to a lot of hard feelings and harassment... which skips the weak point that identities can be outed as well as revealed. I've seen plenty of that too.
Whatever. I've seen routes to fans writing reviews that lead to a lot of pain and heartbreak. I've seen routes to fans writing reviews that lead to a lot of free stuff. I believe in stating opinions openly and taking whatever lumps come from that, so I have and I have. No one is obligated to agree with me or believe I know what I'm talking about.
Even when I say "X is going to happen" and it does.