Grab bag from Pillowfort & Dreamwidth

[osteophage]

CT is opposed to Wikia/Fandom.com on principle and says that you should be too

Fulminosa remarked on comment culture (or the lack of it) on AO3

lirazel discussed a decrease in conversation and an increase in monetizing fanworks; see more discussion here

vriddy compiled some throwback links from 2014-2015, discussing fandom use of technology and different web platforms

Comments

[writerkit]

I disagree... really strenuously... with that link, but since this isn't a terminology post I will leave it at that. But also, no, normality vs. deviance is not quite what I'm getting at-- because there's not *just* a harassment culture for people who write stuff that squicks the majority of people; there's also a harassment culture of people who ship the "wrong" thing or who made one remark that maybe didn't live up to the current round of ever-changing Correct Terminology. Once upon a time there was an understanding of "the people who write fic are just ordinary people who exist online and should not be hounded for making one comment I disagree with" and there was an added understanding of "people who are monetizing can be fairly held to a higher standard of Doing Better."

Now, currently the standards of Doing Better are much more about "who can we go after for clout" than actually doing better, but I am wondering if this is driving the monetization thing or vice versa-- if a bunch of people said "If I am going to be held to the behavioral standards of someone making money, I should actually make money" or if people said "They are making money therefore it's now fair to hold them to these impossible behavioral standards."