making up fannish stuff, for posterity and beyond!

[sab]

All you all should be coming over to help edit fanlore.org. It's very easy to log in, and then those of us who toil over there would love some toiling help. For example, there's hardly any info on the "West Wing" page; come fill it up, and bring your favorite fics!

Also, for semantics purposes; help me with these questions below? Answer with the term you would most frequently use, or answer with the term you have most frequently heard if you don't prefer one answer over the other.

[Poll #1296784]

ETA: Comments! Keep 'em coming!

Love,
Sab

Comments

Re: do you need more?

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

I apologize for not replying to this comment sooner. I honestly didn't mean to ignore you.

I have a bad habit of avoiding conversations that have gotten heated, especially if I'm the one who's behaved badly, which I clearly was, to wickedwords.

Sometimes, I am honestly kinda ashamed to admit, I block the responses to the conversation in my gmail, so I won't even see them and be tempted to go back and behave even more badly out of defensiveness or a compulsive desire to get the last word, which I know is one of my bad habits. So that's what I did this time. And I honestly didn't see these replies until just this moment. So again, I apologize for ignoring you. I shouldn't have flipped out on wickedwords, but I also shouldn't have ducked out of the conversation afterwards and proceeded to ignore it for two weeks. *sigh*

I also apologize if anything I said implied that you guys were lying or making things up. I was *never* trying to say that. I think both Sab and I were coming from the same place-- we were trying to do research ourselves, whether through a poll or an internet search, because we weren't getting any cites any other way, and we kept asking for *cites*, and no one was providing them, and it was very, very frustrating.

I was honestly bewildered, because *I couldn't find anything myself* to support these assertions. I really, really did want someone to tell me, "no, look *here* and *here* and *here,* this is where it's still actively in use." So, seriously, not snarkily at all, thank you for providing these cites.

Honestly, it comes down to this. I think if people are going to be participants in a wiki, they need to be prepared to cite their assertions, even if it's something as totally obvious as "Clark/Lex was a popular pairing in SV fandom." If someone asked me to cite that, I wouldn't take that as them accusing me of making things up. So again, I wasn't trying to do that and I'm sorry it came off that way.

In conclusion, I'm sorry again for being bitchy to various people in this thread and then effectively ignoring you for two weeks. I never thought you were making things up, but I do think it's important to cite things.

(Thank you for your edits to the vvc articles, by the way. I want to do more work on them but I'm not going to be editing anything on fanlore until my Yuletide story is submitted.)