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Originally posted by elfie:
APEC: All Powerful Estrogen Cloud
Apec has a website… and there is a lot of info at the Lexx Hospitality Page. [URL=http://www.geocities.com/lexxhospitality/
]http://www.geocities.com/lexxhospitality/[/QB][/QUOTE][/URL]
The Lexx Hospitality webpage is the APEC homepage?
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Originally posted by elfie:
Nobody auditions anybody, people ask to join in the fics.
Let me rephrase my question. Are all of the people who ask to join APEC people who view APEC fan fiction on the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board or do they usually encounter APEC through other channels. What I want to know is how important the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board is for the continuation of the club? In other words, is that bulletin board an indespensible organ of the club?
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Originally posted by elfie:
[[Good question. Would a bulletin board forum that is exclusively dedicated to Lexx fan fiction present a solution to this arguement? What would be the downside of this solution?]]I don’t think anything will satisfy everyone considering it’s NOT all about the fics, they are just part of it.
I don’t understand what you mean. It seems to me that if there were a bulletin board that is dedicated exclusively to Lexx fan fiction, everything would be great.
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Originally posted by elfie:
[[What is KT? Is it a bulletin board? A website?]]It is the email group at Yahoo that the APEC members and others post at. It has a website, files section, chat room… just a basic forum.
So….. what’s the URL? I’d like to visit it.
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Originally posted by elfie:
Mainly by the same handful of people, and the couple people who feel slighted somehow by apec/ kt/ scifi bb.
With all due respect, I don’t think they are the only ones who are bugged by the fan fiction postings. There’s no way of measuring how many newbies go to that bulletin board and then never return without comment.
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Originally posted by elfie:
The only problem with that is there would no longer be a well known site for new fans to discover the fiction at. If it hadn’t been at scifi, I’m not sure I would have found it. And for me at least, that wouldn’t have been a preferable scenario. If it had been in private lists, there would have been no visible way for me or anyone else who’s interested to discover it.
I thought so. If the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board didn’t exist, APEC would have no venue– no visibility, no public exposure. I just wanted to make that point clear.
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Originally posted by elfie:
I DO just announce new fics rather than post them there… what is the difference? It is still a “post about someone’s fic”, since no one forces anyone to open the story posts and read them.
I see nothing wrong with that at all. It’s those people who post chapter after chapter and eat up thread title slots in the “front page” that are particularly annoying.
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Originally posted by elfie:
[[This is the very heart of the issue. Fan fictions posted on the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board is the most talked-about complaint. It is the usual reason why people ditch that bulletin board in favor of SadBoard. These fan fictions are driving people away from the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board.]]…And it is also the reason some people visit Scifi instead of the Sadboard.
…and therefore newbies mostly encounters fan fic at the [i]defacto[/i] official Lexx bulletin board. If they’re lucky, they might find their way to SadBoard and have real discussions that are maintained for long periods of time. Not everyone who gets into Lexx wants to read fan fiction.
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Originally posted by elfie:
[But the only way to ignore Lexx clone fan fictions and APEC is to not visit the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board. Their presence cannot be ignored.]]It can be if you do not open the fics.
*SIGH* I think you’re side-stepping the issue. I never open the fics. But the subject headings are there. Each day, fic threads appear and any other discussion threads gets shuffled away.
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Originally posted by elfie:
What you think should happen at a BB you do not like or go to doesn’t carry much weight. The people who are regulars at Scifi’s opinion’s matter to me on the subject (just speaking for me) and the only people who complain are people who don’t like Scifi enough to begin with and do not *hang out* there.
Ah, I understand now. The Lexx fan fic writers dominate the SciFi.Com bulletin board and you like it that way. You’re right, my opinions carry little weight.
I’m trying to say that more people would frequent the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board if they knew that subjects could be discussed for a longer period of time without fan fic filling up subject heading space.
There’s another point that people seldom mention. Fan fiction is not the intended purpose of bulletin boards. It could be regarded as abuse, but there is no one there at SciFi.Com/Lexx moderating anything.
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Originally posted by elfie:
Without the fictions, there would still be the layout of the board… APEC would still be announcing it’s fictions somewhere and what you don’t understand is they’d be upset that they exist ANYWHERE.
Are you saying that there are people out there who are actively trying to squash the existence of any kind of Lexx fan fiction anywhere? That’s news to me. Again, I say that no one would mind annoncements of new fan fiction literature.
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Originally posted by elfie:
If DalekTek posted an image of himself at the conclusion of the thread pointing a gun and threatening to shoot you… you might never want to speak to him again.
That’s really a shame that that sort of thing happens at the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board. I’m not sure that sort of thing has happened here before. If it did, I’m sure such offensive messages are deleted. Sad? FX?
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Originally posted by elfie:
I wish there were some 96 part epics out there. ;o) Actually, they average about 5-7 chapters or so. Sadgeezer’s actually loads slower for me than scifi, so it’s not much of a bother to click the “prev” link at scifi aaaand… look at more posts.
Again, I try to point out that it is not easy to find new posts in old threads at the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board. And when you do find an old thread and post a new message, it goes unnoticed.
The ease of operation of the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board has never been in question. (You keep bringing it up.) In fact, it’s generic simplicity is it’s greatest flaw.
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Originally posted by MelodikSyn:
Couldn’t this entire debacle be settled by “APEC” acquiring their own domain name and webhosting and continuing their RPG there? If they are indeed as serious about their RPG as they seem, wouldn’t that be the most logical solution, to establish their own web presence?
Er, um… I’ve been trying to lobby for this, but– uh– it seems that the fan fiction folk are happy where they are at the SciFi.Com/Lexx bulletin board. They are concerned that if they did not regularly post fan fiction there they would drastically lose membership involvement.
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
My first impression of lexx on the web was from scifi.com and lexx.com. I was not impressed and almost gave up hope on Lexx. I was still new to the show and was trying to get backround on it. I accidently found sadgeezer.com thourgh a link from a page that was linked from lexx.com, and from here I found out all the backround I needed. From then on, I’ve always loved the show. If my story is a typical representation of newbies, then others may not have been so lucky as to have found a real lexx website.
Ditto. Verbatim.
[ 18-11-2001: Message edited by: Flamegrape ]