I've been reading a lot of pro and con about OTW, but hadn't seen your post! Thanks for pointing it out to me.
I find my views differ from yours on most points, which is what I've been finding with most non-OTW-glee posts, which is part of the reason I think my issues regarding the values language should be get-overable (but they still aren't.)
Regarding the lawyer you discuss - isn't the job of anyone who does defense work to, essentially, defend the guilty? I think everyone deserves as competent, vigorous defense, and I don't hold who a person's clients have been against them, or think that defending someone accused of X means that they condone X. And, in this case, I think X was kinda murky anyway. I think my view is pretty mainstream here.
RE: The wiki - I'm an ENTP, and I really, really don't need to see how something is going to work, or think it will have anything to do with my life, to think, sure, go for it. I guess this view extends to how 'transformative' is defined. I think everything is transformative. I think everything is derivative. I think everything can be improved with chocolate and a latte. Again, I'm watching and curious and if whatever bounces out is useful I'll grab it.
RE: handicapped accessibility. Hmm, take your point there. I'd add universal platform accessibility, because I read fanfic on my PDA and there are some things I end up having to edit the html on before I can read them, and as you might guess the number of stories I'm willing to do this for is small.
RE: the archive. I can't really see using this unless it allows me to link to my own website. I'm just too much of a control freak, and I'm always tweaking with my stories. Well, unless I were mortally ill or something. I've been on line since 1981, though, and I've seen media come and media go and nothing fills me with hope about anything being preserved well. Unless it's an ill-thought-out snark from, like, 1993; those can always find their way through time!
RE: the journal. Yay for the journal!
RE: the 'female' language. I agree with most of your analysis here, and I agree that the time to fix it is now. And it greatly annoys me that this language is more important than including the WOMEN who are excluding themselves because of it. Or is my entitlement showing? Not that I have anything to offer OTW anyway.
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Date: 2008-01-08 11:50 am (UTC)I find my views differ from yours on most points, which is what I've been finding with most non-OTW-glee posts, which is part of the reason I think my issues regarding the values language should be get-overable (but they still aren't.)
Regarding the lawyer you discuss - isn't the job of anyone who does defense work to, essentially, defend the guilty? I think everyone deserves as competent, vigorous defense, and I don't hold who a person's clients have been against them, or think that defending someone accused of X means that they condone X. And, in this case, I think X was kinda murky anyway. I think my view is pretty mainstream here.
RE: The wiki - I'm an ENTP, and I really, really don't need to see how something is going to work, or think it will have anything to do with my life, to think, sure, go for it. I guess this view extends to how 'transformative' is defined. I think everything is transformative. I think everything is derivative. I think everything can be improved with chocolate and a latte. Again, I'm watching and curious and if whatever bounces out is useful I'll grab it.
RE: handicapped accessibility. Hmm, take your point there. I'd add universal platform accessibility, because I read fanfic on my PDA and there are some things I end up having to edit the html on before I can read them, and as you might guess the number of stories I'm willing to do this for is small.
RE: the archive. I can't really see using this unless it allows me to link to my own website. I'm just too much of a control freak, and I'm always tweaking with my stories. Well, unless I were mortally ill or something. I've been on line since 1981, though, and I've seen media come and media go and nothing fills me with hope about anything being preserved well. Unless it's an ill-thought-out snark from, like, 1993; those can always find their way through time!
RE: the journal. Yay for the journal!
RE: the 'female' language. I agree with most of your analysis here, and I agree that the time to fix it is now. And it greatly annoys me that this language is more important than including the WOMEN who are excluding themselves because of it. Or is my entitlement showing? Not that I have anything to offer OTW anyway.
- Helen