Unpleasant Wankety Wank

[teyla]

The fan history wiki wank which has been building up for a while is starting to go down.

Smarter people than me have posted about this, so I'm linking to their posts:

- first one by ignazwisdom, whose post was the first I read about this;
- second one by astolat, who probably knows best of all what she's talking about, being in the position that she is;
- and last one by ithiliana, who gives a lot of background info.


Since many of you guys know my RL identity, I'll be using this opportunity to state my policy on this - I don't think I actually need a policy, being the small time fan that I am, but as we all know, the internet has a long memory.

I don't mind having my RL identity connected with my fannish identity. I would ask you to get my permission before you openly share my RL identity with other people (especially in googleable places), but chances are good that you'll get it. Personally, I won't share any RL information I have on other fans, except if I either have permission or for some other reason know for certain that the other person won't mind.

I do know the RL identity of quite a few of you guys, so if you want to let me know how to handle that info, you're welcome to leave me a comment - which are screened, and will only be unscreened if you let me know that you're okay with that.

Comments

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

I truly can't believe why that person does what she does! What's the use in having a nickname when someone throws RL-stuff on a page without asking? I know the RL identity of some of my LJ-friends (names, adresses, stuff) but I would NEVER share those with others without asking, and I would certainly NOT make them public on the interwebs. And I trust all my LJ-friends who know my RL identity, being the kind & smart people they are, to do the same. My House-Related World is very much my little secret hidingplace where the sun never sets and I want to keep it that way. I don't need the whole world to know exactly what I'm doing in my spare time. The way you handle the RL-info is perfect, so this post was really unnecassary, but I felt like throwing around my 2 cents. Feel free to unscreen this comment.

[teyla]

Lol, it's all good. Ranting is healthy.

I don't quite understand why she's doing it, either. It's breaching every fannish etiquette there is. I'm surprised that she's gotten away with it as long as she has without fandom coming down on her.