Hmm, just stopped and thought about online friendships for a bit. My four closest friends are people I met in grade school (best friend) and high school, but outside that small group the majority of my friends are people I met through Buffy fandom either in this community, at the Bronze, or other odd locations. You guys have supplanted my RPG gamer geek friends from high school and college, whom I've largely lost touch with.

Yay! (smooches back)

...Nothing to see here. Move along.

The entire thing which kicked this off was the suggestion that's it's impolite to link to something without checking with the person first. I disagree - I think once something is online, it's fair game.

And what I'm saying -- and probably repeating myself to the point of making other people want to throw guacamole at me -- is that you're applying a general principle to a specific board. You didn't know that shrift was a Buffista. Fine. But when it was pointed out to you, you insisted that it wasn't a problem, rather than admitting it might be poilte to consult with a fellow boardmember who hosts those review for our convenience.

Hmm, just stopped and thought about online friendships for a bit. My four closest friends are people I met in grade school (best friend) and high school, but outside that small group the majority of my friends are people I met through Buffy fandom either in this community, at the Bronze, or other odd locations. You guys have supplanted my RPG gamer geek friends from high school and college, whom I've largely lost touch with.

This is me, although I've also kept in touch with a number of my college friends (none of them are/were RPG people though).

Kevin, how do you feel about hotlinking, or reposting someone else's words? Do you believe in netiquette, and do you believe it varies from place to place?

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2 of our goodest friends we met online. Here, actually. Huh.

Actually, when it was pointed out, I said 'If it's a problem let me know or get a Whedonesque admin to delete it' (or words to that effect). If it's going to piss somebodies site up a wall, fair enough, there wasn't enough reason to leave it linked.

I'd normally link to something without checking first, for the simple reason actually tracking down somebody responsible for a site from a technical perspective can be a nightmare, but if bandwidth is an issue and it's somebody I vaguely know from here, yes, it's my bad, and my apologies for that. The link was supposed to be a gesture of goodwill to Nilly, instead it managed to turn into me being impolite, and let's not begin to overhash what I thought of Nilly because of the quotes.

The entire thing which kicked this off was the suggestion that's it's impolite to link to something without checking with the person first. I disagree - I think once something is online, it's fair game.

In a technical sense, you betcha. Anyone who posts something on the Interbunny and expects to retain 100% privacy and control over it is fooling herself.

However. If fandom is about community, and community is about relationships, then it seems to me that asking before linking would be the normal, polite thing to do. That's how relationships work. And, as ita said, there is such a thing as netiquette.

Kevin, how do you feel about hotlinking, or reposting someone else's words? Do you believe in netiquette, and do you believe it varies from place to place?

Netiquette, yes. In terms of websites, it's up to whoever runs the website to set the rules.

In terms of reposting words, I follow Tim's logic that once it is out there, those words are out there.

We don't even tag posts here without seeking permission.