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Question
So, I've spent most of the day reading up on what people are saying about the OTW are saying. Mostly from non-fandom people, and it's kind of making me want to shoot things, but I was wondering:
What do you think about the OTW? Would you like an archive? A written fannish history? A wiki (OMG, I can't tell you how much I'd like a wiki for fandom, although I can see it being vandalized a lot)? Do you think it's a good idea to have a legal defense fund? If the OTW were ever to go to court, would you support them?
I'm planning on making a post sometime about how I feel about it, but I'm really curious as to what other people on my flist think about it. I think so far only one person on my flist has really written about it, but I spent a couple months away so could have totally missed something.
Also, I am having a bitch of a time working on a mysql database, any one know enough about setting up eFiction to want to help?
What do you think about the OTW? Would you like an archive? A written fannish history? A wiki (OMG, I can't tell you how much I'd like a wiki for fandom, although I can see it being vandalized a lot)? Do you think it's a good idea to have a legal defense fund? If the OTW were ever to go to court, would you support them?
I'm planning on making a post sometime about how I feel about it, but I'm really curious as to what other people on my flist think about it. I think so far only one person on my flist has really written about it, but I spent a couple months away so could have totally missed something.
Also, I am having a bitch of a time working on a mysql database, any one know enough about setting up eFiction to want to help?
Re: OTW Part 3
That's one of my fears, especially since they seem to be taking on a lot of projects at the moment, of which, incidentally enough, the wiki is probably the easiest to start, since I'm assuming they're not going to re-write/start from scratch the wiki code like they are the archive and social networking codes. I must say, I hope they're not starting from scratch on the social networking code. The LJ code is open source, they could probably get farther faster if they just did a re-write of it to add a few things fans would like to see. People *like* LJ as a social network, unlike a lot of the current archive codes which don't fill their needs as much (not that a lot of fandom doesn't dislike it, but I'm assuming, perhaps erroneously, that that's because it's a social network and not so much because it's Live Journal).
There's also the fact that the longer it takes for the behind the scenes people coding to make their stuff, the more people kind of forget about the project, and it can be forgotten.
I think they're treading in dangerous waters re: legal issues. But at the same time I think a lot of their issues stem from gaps in knowledge that anyone could be expected to have.
I realize that there haven't been nearly as many C&Ds in fandom lately as their used to be, at least not to fic writers, I know vids get taken down all the time (but mostly just from places like YouTube), but I still hate the idea of how naked we are sitting here. We currently have no options but to give in if the PTB tell us to. I really wish that the legal aspect of the OTW wasn't what was non-fandom people are latching onto. So many don't seem to realize it's a *defense* fund, there in case TPTB come knocking on *our* door, not so that we can go knock on theirs.
And as bad as it is to say, even if we went out and *lost* any legal footing we had, I don't think it would kill fandom (cripple us? Definitely, but kill? Look at all the downloading that goes on, they haven't been stopped and it's *definitely* illegal) but it would make it a lot less fun.
See why I don't mind when people but in? It gives me a chance to not shut up :P