The whole Ms Scribe affair has been weird for me, personally, because I was starting to become acquainted with some of the people involved (such as angua9). All of a sudden they started talking about this long-standing feud that I knew nothing about, and until I read the "Charlotte Lennox" journal I was pretty confused.
I was aware of Fandom_Scruples before, because "his" posts had been featured on Fandom_Wank, but at the time I thought FS sounded just like one of the hundreds of self-righteous gits that one encounters in fandom. It was quite a surprise to find out that "he" was probably one of Ms Scribe's socks. I could partly blame that on my ignorance of the world of Potter fic, but I do have some grudging admiration for the way that Ms Scribe nailed the tone of your typical self-righteous git so perfectly.
Because of the way that the WB Bronze and the Bronze Beta displayed IP addresses, it would've been difficult to wage a sockpuppet campaign of that type there, but I remember speculations here and there about "ringers" trying to discredit one faction or another by pretending to be one of them (e.g., a Kitten pretending to be a homophobe). And of course there was the "Penlind" saga, which is fascinating in its own right.
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Date: 2006-07-03 07:59 pm (UTC)I was aware of Fandom_Scruples before, because "his" posts had been featured on Fandom_Wank, but at the time I thought FS sounded just like one of the hundreds of self-righteous gits that one encounters in fandom. It was quite a surprise to find out that "he" was probably one of Ms Scribe's socks. I could partly blame that on my ignorance of the world of Potter fic, but I do have some grudging admiration for the way that Ms Scribe nailed the tone of your typical self-righteous git so perfectly.
Because of the way that the WB Bronze and the Bronze Beta displayed IP addresses, it would've been difficult to wage a sockpuppet campaign of that type there, but I remember speculations here and there about "ringers" trying to discredit one faction or another by pretending to be one of them (e.g., a Kitten pretending to be a homophobe). And of course there was the "Penlind" saga, which is fascinating in its own right.