Found the camera.
Friday, 16 February 2007 00:14![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fatrockstarIt was in a hidden pocket of Garret's backpack. The same backpack I had looked in a dozen times and found nothing. Oh well, at least I have it now. I can call off the gestapo.
Recently I've been witness to some interesting internet drama. It led me to some strange discoveries that I'm not sure I understand completely. I don't drop people from my F-list without a decent amount of thought, but I'm considering it. My reason would be primarily due to a lack of activity in favor of a newer account (one I'm not added to). But let me get on to the "interesting internet drama." The drop thing isn't even drama -- it's just a side effect of what I've learned during the drama.
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space_ghetto was a shock community. I lurked there vicariously through another person's F-list page. Its content was pure crap: The dregs of the internet. Inspired by 4chan.org, the members posted everything from vanilla porn to dismemberment and poop. It had a pretty good following, with a dozen or so regular posters and commenters. As a tight-knit group there was a tendency toward the vilification of posters that didn't understand the no-holds-barred nature of the community, and because of that nature the community often received complaints about its content.
It also had about 20 community maintainers, all trusted members. Until yesterday.
In the wee hours of February 15, one of the maintainers deleted all the others in order to delete the community altogether. As of this writing no one is entirely sure who it was. The regulars gathered at a message board elsewhere and a new community was founded:sp4c3_gh3tt0 (NSFA) Regular shock content has resumed, and for the most part people are happy again. Every couple of pages there's a question of who deleted the community and why would they do such a thing. I think they have a right to know. If whoever deleted it didn't want to deal with it anymore, there were less malicious ways of creating distance (like leaving the community and removing it from their F-list).
Here's the side story that confuses me: Back up to a week or two ago where I'm flipping through the pages ofspace_ghetto and I see a familiar face. Apparently a member of the community had posted something and gotten flak for it. In retaliation a series of photos from that member's personal LJ/Photobucket/wherever were posted and commented on. I thought "hey, I know that person," but they're referring to them by another username. That's odd. I shrug it off. People steal other people's images all the time.
In the middle of thespace_ghetto deletion drama I head over to the temporary message boards and read the discussion there. More pictures of this user show up. The group is discussing the kinds of pictures this user posted in the community, and then there's debate over whether they're male or female. Basic internet discussion, I guess. I look at this person's LJ user info and it's the person I thought it was, just with a new journal. A number of their friends from the old journal followed them there.
I guess I didn't get the invite or just didn't notice, and for some reason I'm irritated. I might understand if it was one of those gay dummy accounts people create to post in "potentially scandalous" communities, but it didn't appear that way to me. It's hard for me to get angry about this lateral move because it's the internet. Life goes on. I am curious, though. Why not just drop the users you don't want to deal with anymore? I've been dropped before, and while it stung a little it sure wasn't the end of the world.
So I guess this is opening the floor for discussion. Why did you create a second account? I'm genuinely curious what the motivation was. I mean, you didn't drop me from your original account and you're still on my MySpace... what's the story?
Recently I've been witness to some interesting internet drama. It led me to some strange discoveries that I'm not sure I understand completely. I don't drop people from my F-list without a decent amount of thought, but I'm considering it. My reason would be primarily due to a lack of activity in favor of a newer account (one I'm not added to). But let me get on to the "interesting internet drama." The drop thing isn't even drama -- it's just a side effect of what I've learned during the drama.
space_ghetto was a shock community. I lurked there vicariously through another person's F-list page. Its content was pure crap: The dregs of the internet. Inspired by 4chan.org, the members posted everything from vanilla porn to dismemberment and poop. It had a pretty good following, with a dozen or so regular posters and commenters. As a tight-knit group there was a tendency toward the vilification of posters that didn't understand the no-holds-barred nature of the community, and because of that nature the community often received complaints about its content.It also had about 20 community maintainers, all trusted members. Until yesterday.
In the wee hours of February 15, one of the maintainers deleted all the others in order to delete the community altogether. As of this writing no one is entirely sure who it was. The regulars gathered at a message board elsewhere and a new community was founded:
sp4c3_gh3tt0 (NSFA) Regular shock content has resumed, and for the most part people are happy again. Every couple of pages there's a question of who deleted the community and why would they do such a thing. I think they have a right to know. If whoever deleted it didn't want to deal with it anymore, there were less malicious ways of creating distance (like leaving the community and removing it from their F-list).Here's the side story that confuses me: Back up to a week or two ago where I'm flipping through the pages of
space_ghetto and I see a familiar face. Apparently a member of the community had posted something and gotten flak for it. In retaliation a series of photos from that member's personal LJ/Photobucket/wherever were posted and commented on. I thought "hey, I know that person," but they're referring to them by another username. That's odd. I shrug it off. People steal other people's images all the time.In the middle of the
space_ghetto deletion drama I head over to the temporary message boards and read the discussion there. More pictures of this user show up. The group is discussing the kinds of pictures this user posted in the community, and then there's debate over whether they're male or female. Basic internet discussion, I guess. I look at this person's LJ user info and it's the person I thought it was, just with a new journal. A number of their friends from the old journal followed them there. I guess I didn't get the invite or just didn't notice, and for some reason I'm irritated. I might understand if it was one of those gay dummy accounts people create to post in "potentially scandalous" communities, but it didn't appear that way to me. It's hard for me to get angry about this lateral move because it's the internet. Life goes on. I am curious, though. Why not just drop the users you don't want to deal with anymore? I've been dropped before, and while it stung a little it sure wasn't the end of the world.
So I guess this is opening the floor for discussion. Why did you create a second account? I'm genuinely curious what the motivation was. I mean, you didn't drop me from your original account and you're still on my MySpace... what's the story?
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