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Ok, I'm really kind of curious, who rec'ed me to

metafandom? No one who's in the SGA fandom even responded to my original post, and now, a week later it's on

metafandom? Weird.

It's kind of flattering, but on the other hand, I wrote it thinking no one would end up reading it, so it's not actually one of the brighter things I've said. I also kind of made up my own side to the argument. :P

Seriously though, if it was someone on my flist, I'd really like to know. Otherwise I'm going to assume it's someone from

geeklite's flist who checked out my journal after I left a comment on her post.

Anyways, good night all, here's to long weekends!

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Haven't a clue what you're writing about. Just wanted to stop in and say hello. I've MIA pretty much all week and I owe you like a zillion comments back. Hopefully find some time to do that.

My boyfriend's mother from Ireland has been here and that really cut into my free time.

You enjoy the week end. Hope to connect with you.

;-)

*icon love*

Haven't a clue what you're writing about.
You know that thing I wrote about secondary characters (that I thought you were the only one to read it)? Well someone posted it to

metafandom which is a group that links to posts about meta. I guess someone else read te post and thought I had something to say, because now a bunch of people have come over to my journal to talk about it.

Just wanted to stop in and say hello.
*waves back*

I've MIA pretty much all week and I owe you like a zillion comments back.
Don't worry, I'm quite happy to pick up a conversation wherever. I'm happy to wait :)

My boyfriend's mother from Ireland has been here and that really cut into my free time.
Oooh, how did that go? Do you get along?

Hi. You don't know me, but I read your essay which was linked on Metafandom and then glanced at your journal main page, and this question caught my eye. I had a similar experience last fall; I made a throwaway post on MiSTings when the sga_mst group was started and people were talking about that. (I'm not into SGA, which makes it rather ironic that I'm talking to you about another SGA-related post! But I used to be a big fan of MST3K and MiSTings, back when they were more organized.) Anyway, I was rather astonished when my post turned up on Metafandom, because I'm pretty sure none of my flist would have recommended it. I suspect that the Metafandom staff just does a periodic journal search for anyone who's mentioned the community in an entry recently.

*nods*

Yep, that's exactly, right, we do! It's in the FAQ, actually, because sometimes people are surprised, but we syndicate the results of various search terms to a reading list. Frex:

ljseek_mfall,

mf_technorati.

Say

metafandom's name three times and we'll appear! Like magic! :D

:P but how did you hear about it in the first place? No one had said the name

metafandom until they had been linked. I didn't even *say* meta in the post at all.

Just curious.

Well, you know, I don't remember specifically. :D There are several possibilities, though. You may have, as I said, turned up on a keyword search, say, sga race (http://technorati.com/search/sga+race+?authority=n&start=10), perhaps, from technorati, ljseek, textblog, or another search engine type thing. I reckoned it was most likely to be from a feed because of the delay you mentioned. Otherwise, well! You're on a lot of community flists - it's also fairly probable that I picked you up off a flist view - I've skimmed the

sga_noticeboard flist a lot more often in the past couple of weeks, because so much discussion has been happening in SGA recently. Or someone tracked out the comment threads - that's a pretty common way to find more discussion posts. Or... I dunno! Those are the three most likely options. We don't get that many submissions, maybe a couple a day, and mostly in comments.

We've been grinding our way through a pretty big change in the way we collate our data over the past month or so, so it's also quite probable that actually your post was added when you made it and got caught in the system.

Here concludes my essay: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Metafandom, by lim, aged seven (and three quarters!)

:D

Cool to know. Thanks!

I suspect that the Metafandom staff just does a periodic journal search for anyone who's mentioned the community in an entry recently.
I have no idea why they would have checked my LJ, I'm pretty much a lurker.

I think it *has* to be that someone pointed my post out, because it was a week after I wrote the post that it appeared on metafandom, and it just happened to coincide with the first time I spoke up in someone *else's* journal on the subject.

Whatever, what happens happens, I was just curious.

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