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[noracharles]

I'm one of the editors of the White Collar Roundup - I collect the White Collar content posted to dreamwidth.

That's how I first came across the comm then called fanspastic. The name offended me, and I hated linking to content on a comm like that, but I want our newsletter to be inclusive, and I'll link to everything regardless of my personal feelings about its authors.

Now the comm has been renamed to fangasmic, which is a huge improvement! Thank you mark for taking care of that before renaming is officially possible.

I went to look at the comm, thinking the mods might just be ignorant, and maybe it's not a horrible place after all. LOL, wrong.

Is using the word "spaz" in the mod post explaining the rename supposed to be ironic, and do the mods think that it is therefore funny?

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[carolyn_claire]

It could have been due to peer pressure, or to a desire to see their comm succeed that was greater than their a-holishness over the issue--it didn't have to mean that they were ignorant of what they'd done and were sorry (or, at least, one of them was) when they learned. I'm glad I know more of the inner workings of what happened, there, and what goes on in the mods minds; I'd rather be informed than not, and if I'm going to judge, I'd rather have a stronger basis for that judgment than want I think might have been going on. Because people make mistakes when they don't understand what's going on in other people's heads.

[noracharles]

That is true. I know that I personally am more in my comfort zone when people tell me what their opinion and perspective is, both on me and on the situation. I don't mind knowing that those people are people I have no wish to know, rather than just suspecting it.

But if their aim were to get along with people like me in an impersonal and polite way, as opposed to explaining themselves to people like me so that we might better understand each other, then they went about it the wrong way.

I was recently in a similar situation, where my modly interests and personal interests were in conflict. I decided after sleeping on it to vent my feelings to a friend in a private chat, and keep it out of the space I was moderating. I don't know if it was the right choice, but it was the choice that hurt the community less, and a choice I can live with.

I think the mods of fangasm put their personal interests above the interests of their comm when they chose to explain themselves. It may not be a bad or wrong choice, but it is a choice which limits their membership.

[carolyn_claire]

Then I guess my preference is a selfish one, too, because, for me, I'm glad I know more about what's going on, there, and I'm less concerned about the effects of the revelations on their comm. I see where you're coming from, though. I do know that, with The CB, I was always completely open about my thought processes and my reasons for doing things the way I did them, even though those ideas often weren't popular and cost the comm subscribers. I guess my feelings, as a comm owner, were centered on doing it my way and on doing it with people who wouldn't misunderstand, going in, who I was and what I was about and then object to how things were being done and try to cause trouble, later. I preferred like minds, you know? And maybe they do, too, in their own odd way.

[noracharles]

Ha, yes :-)

I do see the value of being open about yourself, so you can attract people you can stand to be around. I mostly agree with that choice.