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[chasechan2050]

I feel like this should be said

[The Kempest]

I respect this thread. More people should be this up front without being rude. Myself included.

[Cougar Draven]

Pfft. Lock it? Hell no, this needs to be read. By everyone.

I admit, I have probably caused a bit of the trouble myself, and for that, I'm sorry. I'm trying to be neutral, and to solve problems rather than cause them.

[qaqa]

I never liked us having an OOG thread or open public discussion of people's personal blogs or tumblrs. I was much more comfortable with us all simply creeping shamelessly and not talking about it in polite company. It seemed slightly less exploitative. So no, I don't condone that, and I think there are only a few posters who really pushed that onto the forum as a public issue. I didn't agree with that, but the mods felt differently.

As for blogs and vlogs, the simple fact is that any one forum in a fandom is different from any other. That's the nature of variety, and the Internet. One place may focus on one aspect, another board on a different one. Blogs have a less concentrated interest on UF, but there is interest, and I don't think anyone is actively campaigning against them here. No one is concertedly ignoring them or knocking them off page 1 - I enjoy TrailheadTroll's work and I know other people do as well. I follow certain blogs. But is UF largely vlog-centric? Yes, I think so, and honestly there's nothing wrong with that. It's just the way things happen in discussion forums, organically. I'm not going to suggest it should change, and I think that forcing it would only be that - forced. If a blog rises to the top it'll do so because people here want to talk about it, unselfconsciously. There's a fair amount of discussion of several right now, in fact.

When it comes to rude people, there's always going to be bad apples or assholes. The key is managing them or ignoring them. Hopefully with the new mods there will be more of that. I know how I handle most of them - generally, with humor or by completely ignoring them. Nothing stops someone dead more than simply moving on.

[SiticHybrid]

De-lurking long enough to respect chase.

[chasechan2050]

I think by no means is anyone innocent here, but I think that people need to stop raging at ever little thing that they don't like and accept that it'll be there. If they don't like it, just avoid it.

Alas, people have gotten used to there being little to no modship here and being able to get away with more. Though, I'd be more that willing to help you guys out if need be (though I'm still hardly on here as it is because I've got personal things to take care of for the time being :/)

Edit: @Qaqa: There are a few people that subtly do it, I feel. Though, hearing things through typed text is a bit harder to decipher than actually hearing someone's voice, so...

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[Cougar Draven]

[chasechan2050]

This is what I get for having four hours of sleep and it being 2 am here and me being too tired to proof read XD;

@Qaqa: I meant subtly bash blogs, but it's a bit harder to tell through text than through word of mouth. Sorry for the confusion X.x;

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[Zarggg]

Chase, I respect your opinions, but I do have to point out the irony of you stating in your blog post about not wanting to see people posting it here, then you go ahead and link it anyway.

No, in all seriousness, your opinion is a valid one. I try to stay away from infighting and just keep to the discussion of the series themselves.

[Cougar Draven]

[Zarggg]

No, I know that. It just struck me as odd. I have a weird sense of humor.

[JulieDowey]

Incredibly well stated, I agree 100%.

[Phenom]

Re: I feel like this should be said