embitca, I hope you caught that your Profile here allows you to block your email address from general distribution, and that you can allow or disallow it if you change your mind.

I actually don't mind that my posts were excerpted, I'm just glad that I was alerted to it here. But I first came to the Internet during the days there was just one comics discussion group (rec.arts.comics) and my fanfic writing started in an X-Men APA which may be just barely pre-AOL, so I'm a dinosaur anyway and pretty much operate on the assumption that "it's all connected."

I'm more upset that I upset RL.

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.

I know. I do know, logically. I'm just really fucking stupid.

eta

Also? I swear too much. Sorry, sorry.

I'm more upset that I upset RL.

I still love you! Do you still like me?

Wanna talk about it more? I think I articulated what I found problematic with it....

embitca, I hope you caught that your Profile here allows you to block your email address from general distribution, and that you can allow or disallow it if you change your mind.

Oh, I don't mind real people knowing my email address. It's just the spambots that irritate me and having to sign up with a verifiable email address often guarantees spam. No worries.

And yes, it's all connected. The Internet has made our world a much smaller place in many ways. Forget about six degrees of separation. We rarely need that many nowadays.

I'm going to make you another package. Soon.

I really, really don't deserve it.

t looks guiltily at unposted things. feels worse.

It's just the spambots that irritate me

Oh, I'm pretty sure they're not allowed to crawl your profile page. I think. And I've noticed no spam to my profile address ever.

I'm just really fucking stupid.

Oh, don't feel that way. If I hadn't found out about it we wouldn't have had this conversation and I know we've interacted a bit on LJ, but not a whole lot. And besides, just ask Fearless Diva, I'm evil. ;)

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.

Just revisiting this again, because in all the kerfuffle about my LJ post, I think my interest in everyone's comments about the Slash the Slasher challenge got missed out. And the reason I bring this up is because while the comment weren't specifically about me, they were about my idea and yet...I wasn't around to discuss it. Hmmm. I don't have a problem with that really. And it's nice to come across it randomly because it pleases me that this totally mad, outrageous idea I had has gotten people so interested, but still... pot. kettle. black. Things get discussed. It happens. We won't always be there when it happens.

Hmmm. I don't have a problem with that really. And it's nice to come across it randomly because it pleases me that this totally mad, outrageous idea I had has gotten people so interested, but still... pot. kettle. black.

Oh! Interesting. Yes. You have a very good point. My brain, now, is spinning through-- first it said "well, embitca was talking about us in particular, or Theo in particular, and the Slash the Slashers thing wasn't about embitca personally", but that's full of holes; and then it said "but I'd have never on my own talked to embitca personally & directly about what I think about the StS thing, because she doesn't (or, at least, didn't) know me, and why would she have cared about an email from a stranger", but that just invites the question "so then why would she know *you* care to know what a stranger thinks about your message board's discussion?" and I can't articulate anything tight against any of it.

Huh.... Rebecca Lizard: Hypercritical Hypocrite

Oh, no - man, I know I'm hypocritical to the nth degree, because I've done precisely this same referring-to-another-person's-argument thing in my LJ as a jumping-off point for rambling. So I totally suck. In every possible way. But this earth logic doesn't seem to counterbalance my gut reaction of run away! run away! Potential for trolls! Especially since we're currently being attacked by a big ass troll over in Firefly.

t OT Does anyone else remember ever happening across an episode of Star Trek (tOS) in which some Bimbo of the Week said "Tell me more of this earth thing you call spanking"? Or possibly Spock may have said it. Or had it said to him. I forget. Did I dream this line?