God, could I sound any more like an unfriendly bag?

Um, you didn't sound like one in the first place, silly girl.

Also, Buffistas does not allow anonymous posting. I had to register with a real email address and then verify the registration. I know it doesn't seem like a lot to you, but it was to me and I took the time to come over here and respond after you took issue with holding the discussion elsewhere.

Yeah, that's also true: the buffistas.org message board format may seem even a little hostile to someone unregistered. And that's a reason to post your reactions in your private journal, because, after all, they *are* YOUR reactions.

... But I only found your LJ entry because you're on my friends list. If I hadn't linked you back to here, there might have been a possible huge debate raged on your comments list, without, say, Theodesia herself, ever knowing. And *that*'s something that upsets me-- the idea that someone might be discussing things about me or my group of people, in a public forum, but without my happening to know about it. And intellectually I absolutely know it's impossible (and probably even a silly desire to have), to know what and when people are discussing about you; but when it happens on the internet, and there's a debate-- about my community, *and* about the fic issues I'm very interested in-- I don't get to take part of, I get twitchy. That's why I linked back your journal here.

God, could I sound any more like an unfriendly bag?

Yeah. Considering you aren't one.

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First page of LoP. It's not Hall's real page, but that page doesn't work for me.

As for no anonymous posting, that was rather intentional, wasn't it?

(Connie, can you edit that link to be smaller? It's resizing my teeny little screen.)

We value our privacy, as feeble as that may be in reality.

It's non-existant actually.

And that's the bottom line. There's a real sense of community, and I really fucking cherish it.

And you can protect it and cherish it if it's meaningful to you. I'm a member of a private community. Any referrer tracking to it would result in a deadend because it's protected from intruders. No one gets to join who isn't vetted first. There's nothing to stop Buffistas from doing that, but this little episode should tell you there is nothing currently private about your community. You live in a glass house and anyone can come by and see what you're doing on the toilet and the only thing they need to come inside is a skeleton key.

Oh, yay. Reality. Just what I needed.

There's nothing to stop Buffistas from doing that, but this little episode should tell you there is nothing currently private about your community.

Actually, I think the posts from one of the threads showing up in Variety did that. I think it was Variety.

We don't want to be Latin, more English. Change is good. We've just... well, we've just had a little more of it than usual in the last two weeks.

That's why I linked back your journal here.

And I'm glad you did, though I don't expect I'll be around much after this discussion dies out.

I do wonder if we got a little more than we bargained for, or were prepared for, with the advent of the Phoenix Board.