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Actually, I'm waiting for an explanation or instantiation. If that cannot be generated, an apology would be nice. I suggest a closer reading of my responses in the thread, in particular this one, which doesn't sound very coldly huffy to me at all.
I don't really feel you can demand of the author without whom there would be no Barbelith that he must follow conventional board etiquette, as if this were a level playing-field. It's not as though you're talking to Mordant Carnival.
No, it certainly isn't. Mordant Carnival has contributed a large amount of value to Barbelith over the time it has existed, and is a regular and trusted contributor. The Kristan ficsuit - two users, one topic, three posts - is not. As such, Mordant should be cut a lot more slack if she happens to lose it one evening and get shouty.
And that's it. It's perfectly reasonable for GM to be too busy making 24-page magic to read Barbelith, just as I can reasonably say that I have been too busy boning up on my Arthurian mythology to contribute much to the Laboratory. Difference being that I have chosen to respond to this by not contributing much to the Laboratory. GM, on the other hand, has chosen to describe the above as a sleazy and abusive potshot, and as the precursor to "yet another" sleazy and abusive potshot, suggesting that he has some sort of evidence of multiple sleazy and abusive potshots in the past. So, if he has not been reading Barbelith, he probably shouldn't be making statements that suggest he has. If he has, he should be able to back up his assertion. Most of us have overreacted or said something regrettable once in a while - I remember Cameron and me having a fine old barny once over a ghastly misunderstanding, but while I had no problem when the blood-heat had settled in saying to him "I'm very sorry, that was a really dick-witted line of mine, and I was both insensitive and rude to write it", at no point did I think that I had to say that because he was a mate of the writer of The Invisibles.
If you want to give people special privileges to say and do whatever they like because they write extremely good comics, then please feel free to do so. You will certainly not be alone in this - the Swingball set is in the shed holding its weekly meeting. However, it is not board policy to do so, nor is it, IMHO, good policy for human interaction. Board policy, such as it is, is embodied in the FAQ, which is quoted above. As somebody said on Barbelith in 2001, Barbelith, despite taking its name and general style from The Invisibles, really isn't a Grant Morrison fan site anymore. I think the Tearoom of Despair had a forum, but it broke. |
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