Welcome, Anthony Rapp! (part two) — Page 61

gracias

I have an LJ, but I don't know what to do with it. I don't have anything interesting enough to write about. Except for my cow pooping on my dog today, heh. But that might only be interesting to me....

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Dramatic_Irony has also finished said book, precisely 23 seconds ago.

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Noah there is absolutely nothing on my lj. I don't even know what it looks like.

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. "Ready" is how you describe a toddler that's old enough to use the potty for the first time, not how to tell if someone should receive the priviledge of looking at boring friends-locked icon posts.

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Updated On: 1/29/06 at 08:58 PM

Wow, D_I that was quick!

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I'm just curious Fizz, but what do you do to ensure that someone is "ready" for Inapropothought? Do you go in and look at their livejournals and make a decision from there?

Initially we take a look at their LJ, read some entries, their interests, just generally see how their brain works. For the most part we like what we see. There are some occasional factors that make us say 'no' or 'maybe later, lets get to know them first'.

I'm curious, though -- if there's a need to deem people "ready" for it, doesn't that say something about the material?

Yes, in a way. Because NC-17 Mark/Roger fanfiction and fanart will pop up under friends-lock, thats usually the deciding factor on who we accept. If they're rather young, we tend to lean more towards 'maybe later'. We don't intend to corrupt th young'uns. There are a FEW who are younger who are members, most of them having joined before we started screening. The others we took extensive time to get to know and didn't think the stuff under our cuts would bug them.

Yes, in a way. Because NC-17 Mark/Roger fanfiction and fanart will pop up under friends-lock.

Funny that you say this, yet you claim the stuff that's locked to be "not that bad." And even while making that claim, you feel it your civil service to deem people "ready" in some protective act.

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I said MOST of it. Not all of it.

In the last few days I've been attacked about Inapropo more than I have in the entire time its been up, and its starting to really get on my last nerve. Its our discretion who we let in, and usually its not the younger ones due to the occasional adult conversation. I don't see whats so wrong about that, and I also feel frustrated when people talk about what goes on behind our figurative closed doors because, in reality, most of it is quite tame(exception b eing, as I've said, NC-17 fanfiction and fanart)

But do you really think that most of it being quite tame excuses the stuff that's.... not? I think that's poor defense and hypocrisy, to be perfectly honest.

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Guys, chill. I know we're on the off-topic board, but we could try and talk about Anthony Rapp a bit, couldn't we?

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*mad laughter*

You know, you make the point about friends-lock using the claim that there are icons you don't want others taking. That's valid, and I understand that. But you skirt the issue by focusing only on these icons you don't want taken. You own up to the slash and the inappropriate (pun not intended) nature of the community only when it's convenient for your weak defense.

You've exactly stated my point yourself. You don't see what the problem is -- and that explains why you didn't even answer my question. I could care less who you accept; I don't even have a LiveJournal account.

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