Slander at SciFi.Com (Part Two)
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
If they say they’re happy there, then let them stay there. If they want to come here and discuss great. It works for me either way. There is no use in arguing with zealots. We should stop this bickering before the rift in Lexxians grows any more!
I’ve been advocating the idea of a new moderated fan fiction forum here at SadBoard. And again, I want to emphasize that it would [b]NOT[/b] ursurp the activities of APEC or other fan fiction groups. The new forum would provide a safe venue for fan fiction authors. This whole ugly flame warfare began because the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board is completely unmoderated. Arguements got completely out of hand and extremely mean.
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Originally posted by …:
But for the life of me I can’t understand why:
*you would volunteer to moderate a fic/OPEC forum? I’ve never seem you write fics and I don’t think your in APEC*how you would expect them to be positively responisve to an outsider moderating them
I have absolutely no desire to moderate an APEC forum. To assume that SadBoard would have any authority to establish an “APEC Fan Fiction Forum” would be [b]extremely[/b] insulting to the members of that club. This they have stated a few times.
As I understand what Sad has proposed, the proposed Fan Fiction section of the SadBoard would have several forums that represent several catagories of fan fictions. Lexx, Farscape, Andromeda, Babylon 5, Red Dwarf, etc. Within each of those forums, authors could post stories to their hearts content. As long as it doesn’t violate an agreed-upon set of rules. All of these details have yet to be hammered out.
Nope, I haven’t posted fan fictions in the past. Maybe I’ll have a go at it if this moderated forum comes into being. But at the moment, I don’t relish the idea of posting fan fictions at SciFi.Com or anyplace that is unmoderated.
Also, I didn’t expect them (meaning the APEC and other fan fiction authors at SciFi.Com) to be positively responsive to an outsider moderating them. When I got involved with this idea, I knew that they would suspect that I was up to no good. But all I’m saying is, “Look, there’s an alternative. A safe forum can be established for fan fiction authors where no one annoys each other.” One of the first things that was pointed out was that they could post fan fictions both here at SadBoard and SciFi.Com. No ever said they had to stop posting at SciFi.Com. But the difference is that at one place an author could fall victim to slanderous attacks by people who fear no reprisal while at another place such flaming would not be permitted.
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
Also Valdron (A great guy) made a good point in one of his responses. Flamegrape does look suspiciously like Flame Gripe. Not that I’m insinuating aythign negative, but what’d the origins of your nik? I’m just curious.
[i]Flame Grape[/i] is the name of an obscure song by a psychedelic punk rock band from Austin, Texas. (Aleck can back me up on this, as he did over at SciFi.Com/Lexx.) I’ve been using the username for years. Occasionally people suspect that I’m into the practice of flaming and this is not the case. It is also the name of the computer-generated character that I created in art school, as seen in my signature below. I hope that clears up any confusion.