Special Edition: TWM Content Poll
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thisweekmetaHello all! After the most recent kerfuffle, I thought I would take this opportunity to ask what folks felt would be the best practices for the newsletter regarding certain sites and types of links.
I have made a Content Poll-- it's not long, and if you don't like any of the options you can totally post a comment here instead. It asks about etiquette regarding Dreamwidth/LiveJournal communities, Fanlore pages, Fanlore-found links, and what to do when an Original Poster is not available for contact.
All these questions assume the post being linked is not locked or private, and that the entity doing the linking is a newsletter.
Edit: Some further context for why linking and linking permissions is so hotly debated in fandom (Fanlore).
My own answers are currently along the lines of: community posts are probably fine to link because they were posted widely to begin with; Fanlore pages made through explicit permission of OP is best, but for certain historical meta it's okay to link anyway; linking to Fanlore to provide further context is fine; no way to ask for permission means no link; if the OP has completely disappeared from fandom and/or online, it's fine to link their stuff.
But I want to know what you think! :)
The comments here are open, and I encourage you all to discuss your thoughts with me and with each other. We've had some really good discussions in the last few days, and I'm interested in seeing what you all think about these specific linking situations.
If you can think of anything else that might be missing from either the poll or the editorial guidelines, please let me know.
Thank you! ♥
I have made a Content Poll-- it's not long, and if you don't like any of the options you can totally post a comment here instead. It asks about etiquette regarding Dreamwidth/LiveJournal communities, Fanlore pages, Fanlore-found links, and what to do when an Original Poster is not available for contact.
All these questions assume the post being linked is not locked or private, and that the entity doing the linking is a newsletter.
Edit: Some further context for why linking and linking permissions is so hotly debated in fandom (Fanlore).
My own answers are currently along the lines of: community posts are probably fine to link because they were posted widely to begin with; Fanlore pages made through explicit permission of OP is best, but for certain historical meta it's okay to link anyway; linking to Fanlore to provide further context is fine; no way to ask for permission means no link; if the OP has completely disappeared from fandom and/or online, it's fine to link their stuff.
But I want to know what you think! :)
The comments here are open, and I encourage you all to discuss your thoughts with me and with each other. We've had some really good discussions in the last few days, and I'm interested in seeing what you all think about these specific linking situations.
If you can think of anything else that might be missing from either the poll or the editorial guidelines, please let me know.
Thank you! ♥
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Date: 2019-01-27 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-27 02:17 pm (UTC)which like you said, is the nature of tumblr, so i dunno. maybe that means more people there go in Expecting that their posts are in the public sphere, like i do? which would make linking without permission more okay.
but if some people were considering their own blog more of a slightly more private sphere, just without the option to actually make specific posts private, that's a little more of an issue. (i mean, i saw quite a few posts labelled Don't Reblog, as a desperate attempt to make sure the post didn't get spread around, but people didn't always listen. that said, those were more often venting or personal posts rather than meta, i think.)
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Date: 2019-01-27 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-27 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-27 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-27 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-27 03:04 pm (UTC)And you had to have an actual computer. I spent my first several years on the internet only having computer access at work (when I was in school, we didn't have personal computers at all. My college barely even had a computer center when I was there and we were still using public pay phones in the lobbies of the dorms for all our phone calls).
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Date: 2019-01-27 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-28 11:38 pm (UTC)On the other, they get notified when people like or reblog their original post. They know when something's gone viral because all of a sudden they've got 300 notifications since they checked last. And they can just look at the post on their own blog, and see the responses - they don't have to hunt down other people's blogs to see how people have reacted, and they can respond directly to the replies.
The tensions we're going to see with Tumblr users is when they discover their post has been linked to by someone who's blocked them, whether that's a specific ban, or no anon comments, or non-access comments are screened.