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My forgetting to announce the new IA, #27, on the ia-related yahoo groups was, if I am to be completely truthful, partly passive agressive. And has already pissed at least one person off enough to make a public comment (and probably others who just haven't made a point of saying aught about it.)
I honestly had been away from the IA (and DW) scene so long that I wasn't aware that many fans have apparently abandoned adwc completely.
But I also realize now that the yahoo groups to me symbolize the shift from lean, mean round-robins, completed on or near time, to tales much more likely to turn into 'the never-ending story'...
I wanted to get away from that; make a fresh start.
At the end of the 90s, switching to egroups, which of course was soon taken over by yahoo, 'seemed like a good idea'.
But I personally don't think now that we need three mailing lists - one just for announcements, one for chapter dissemination (useful), and one for story discussion (potentially useful).
Yes, I remember the argument against increasing idle chat which was what prompted the proliferation of lists. But has it really been that big an issue since then?
Perhaps it has. I have been away.
I just...too many yahoo groups on my list make me squidgey. Especially when they have hardly any traffic. At that point, why keep them? It's just Clutter. Which was why, when I went on Modding hiatus, I quit the groups and essentially forgot about them.
I actually intended just to e-mail the chapters to the writer's list, the way we first started out - anyone not writing who wanted to read them could bloody well go read them on adwc or wait for the web page they'd be archived on - though in a concession to my new LJ participation, I was going to post them, under cut tags, here as well (as I already have posted chapter 1). Obviously I was as yet unaware that usenet is no longer the long-term IA/DW fan's cup o' tea.
Yes, ignoring the IA groups was rude in retrospect - a Mistake.
But I refuse to feel any Guilt for wanting to follow the following rule of thumb: K.I.S.S.!
I'm the Mod. The new story belongs to all 10 of us participating - but it's my rules.
Grrr. Arrgh.
I honestly had been away from the IA (and DW) scene so long that I wasn't aware that many fans have apparently abandoned adwc completely.
But I also realize now that the yahoo groups to me symbolize the shift from lean, mean round-robins, completed on or near time, to tales much more likely to turn into 'the never-ending story'...
I wanted to get away from that; make a fresh start.
At the end of the 90s, switching to egroups, which of course was soon taken over by yahoo, 'seemed like a good idea'.
But I personally don't think now that we need three mailing lists - one just for announcements, one for chapter dissemination (useful), and one for story discussion (potentially useful).
Yes, I remember the argument against increasing idle chat which was what prompted the proliferation of lists. But has it really been that big an issue since then?
Perhaps it has. I have been away.
I just...too many yahoo groups on my list make me squidgey. Especially when they have hardly any traffic. At that point, why keep them? It's just Clutter. Which was why, when I went on Modding hiatus, I quit the groups and essentially forgot about them.
I actually intended just to e-mail the chapters to the writer's list, the way we first started out - anyone not writing who wanted to read them could bloody well go read them on adwc or wait for the web page they'd be archived on - though in a concession to my new LJ participation, I was going to post them, under cut tags, here as well (as I already have posted chapter 1). Obviously I was as yet unaware that usenet is no longer the long-term IA/DW fan's cup o' tea.
Yes, ignoring the IA groups was rude in retrospect - a Mistake.
But I refuse to feel any Guilt for wanting to follow the following rule of thumb: K.I.S.S.!
I'm the Mod. The new story belongs to all 10 of us participating - but it's my rules.
Grrr. Arrgh.
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From:
You may have seen this by now...
I didn't even find out about it through adwc. I read it on her LiveJournal,
and then
the thetardis LJ as well.
(so there's no excuse for Jeff complaining about it, as he has her on his
friend's list.)
And you know what, I had forgotten about why I left adwc and a lot of the
fanfic list.
Thanks for reminding me why.
This argument should be taken over to the chat list, as it has no place on
a list devoted
to the CHAPTERS of said IA.
To sum up my argument: Shit happens. Get over it. Whining is something
that's done in great big barrels,
and will be more useful than what you're doing.
The IA's and MIA's are an integral part of adwc and they existed there long
before
we had any dumb email groups to handle the distribution of chapters and
conversation
between any the authors. So unless you want to whinge on how life is unfair,
shut the heck up or take to some new mailing list that only people who want to
bitch about things can go to. I suggest IA-bitch."
Harsh, yes.. but I don't care.. I came to write, not to listen to people whine about things.