State of the Molehill

[autographedcat]

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
--William Butler Yeats

This latest round in LJ Drama makes me profoundly sad.

That is all.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

It doesn't me, and I'll tell you why. This is the first round where I've seen people actually doing stuff about it rather than just whining... putting their code and their hardware where their keyboards are. It'll be pretty darn cool if it works out...

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I've got a whole rant on this, but I'm too tired and frustrated and sad about the whole thing right now. But chew on this for a while:

Do you *really* think there's a magical place to set up where you'll be free of this kind of thing? Because there isn't. Even if you build your own site, someone has to host it, and someone has to provide bandwidth, and those companies will have the same kinds of pressures, and the same Acceptable Use Policies.

I'm not trying to be an apologist for 6A; they've done many things that were downright stupid. And there are people who are engaging 6A in a rational and constructive manner, and I hope that 6A is response to them. But the baying for blood and rattling of sabers is wearying, and the mob mentality in a group I expect better of is both frightening and disappointing.

I suppose it has always been the habit of fandom to tilt at ideological windmills, but this seems to have been whipped into a fervor that far outweighs what's really going on. And that makes me sad.

[bedlamhouse]

Hear, hear. Well said.

I feel your frustration and am also experiencing it.

I wait.

[gingicat]

It is the people who are doing something constructive that I'm rooting for. For example, I signed this open letter:
http://bubble-blunder.livejournal.com/82091.html

[bardling.livejournal.com]

Well said. I'm with you on this. *hug*