thisweekmeta | 000. welcome & faq

This Week in Meta is a pan-fandom meta newsletter. It collects links from: Dreamwidth, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Twitter, Youtube, blogs, and anywhere else people may be writing and talking about meta. Newsletter guidelines, linking rules and etiquette, as well as posting policies and moderator accounts can be found here.

Anyone can join and anyone can comment, but only editors can post.

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What is meta?
"In fandom, meta is used to describe a discussion of fanworks of all kinds, fan work in relation to the source text, fanfiction characters and their motivation and psychology, fan behavior, and fandom itself.

Meta or a meta essay can also be a fan-authored piece of non-fiction writing that discusses any of the above topics."
-- via Fanlore

What is linked here?
Meta about: fandom as a whole/concept, fandom history, fannish activities/experiences, fandom statistics/polls, acafan writings, fandom-wide news and resources.

We will (probably) not link to: memes, headcanons about specific characters or fandoms, episode reviews, book reviews, movie reviews, homework help, troll comments/deliberate wank.

Why don't you link to meta about specific fandoms?
Sometimes we do, if it's the kind of meta that could apply to multiple fandom genres, character types, tropes, etc. Also most fandoms have a newsletter or noticeboard of their own, so if you're looking for meta about one specific show, you can usually find it easily enough.

Who runs this thing?
Right now it's

tozka, who started it after realizing that all the old meta fandom newsletters had died several years back.

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This Week in Meta

-- Last updated January 24, 2019.

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But Dreamwidth had newsletters as did LJ. Unlike Tumblr, we have the choice to lock posts, so I actually think linking public posts should not require the OP's consent unless there are clear indications that this would invade their privacy or cause them undue stress. (My own judgment used to be based on the poster, i.e., did I know they liked conversations, on the amount of discussion already in the post, on the size of their flist, and on whether the post was a pure meta post or contained personal stuff as well.)

I feel like the ability to lock and also the ability to just say, never link me, should be enough (yes, that'd mean that linking is default and you'd have to actively opt out, but this is the internet and even archive.com isn't respecting robots and spiders any more...which horrified me when i found out!)

I don't see why asking for consent for blogs that don't have a posted policy is a problem, especially for a weekly newsletter. It would make several people more comfortable, and harm nothing.

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