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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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[facetofcathy]

I never even saw that link on the round-up, but I found the comm through some other link and thought that one, I don't share their sense of humour, and two, the name was appalling.

I'm impressed with the behaviour of mark and stultiloquentia and/or others for educating the mods of the comm.

The continuing use of offensive words in the intro kind of mitigates the explanation. That dissenting opinion on that mod post is a lovely example of really not getting it, and I'm still a little confused as to why the person is so against the change.

There's lots of content on Dreamwidth, I don't feel any loss by staying away, and I'm sure they won't pine for me.

[zvi]

If you mean this bit What were we? Fans who spaz and are fantastic. I think they are explaining how they came up with the portmanteau, an historical reenactment of their thought processes, if you will.

[zing_och]

lol cultural divide - I'm actually struggling with ablist language a lot, not being a native speaker, but "it's not okay to call someone a spastic when they're not" was the one rule I knew from childhood. It's really weird that someone doesn't know this!