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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]

Yes, that. There were so many people who were shocked and appalled by the very idea of a fic discussion comm that didn't ask authors if it was okay to discuss their stories, beforehand, or insist on only nice things being said, or whatever (I was astonished at that, myself, having spent so many years on HCA-L and Prospect-L) who were looking for evidence that it was all a tool of the devil, meant for hurting authors, and they thought the name was an indicator that this was going to be a "shredding" com. Even someone I knew who hosted a discussion of the comm--the only one I took part in, I mostly stood back and let it all go on without me, otherwise--felt that the name MUST indicate malice toward authors on my/our part. (Part of the problem was that some were convinced that I was part of an evil cabal that hated another cabal and that we were all in on the comm's creation as a tool to get them, OMG! Which was never true, it was all me and only me, but it's the atmosphere the comm was being birthed into.) So, yeah. I must be out to dissect authors! Look at that evil name! Really, it was just one of several name ideas I had, and then I found this little graphic with beautiful colors that made a great icon and color pallete for the comm, but try to tell people who (want to) think you're satan incarnate that. So comm names and the controversy they can engender mostly amuse me, now.