Anti-Matter said:
I am expecting less attention to follow. If you read, you will see that I am considering a blog web space to take advantage of resources that are not available here. I'd like to see ONE person show me where my reasoning makes no sense.
I am expecting less attention to follow. If you read, you will see that I am considering a blog web space to take advantage of resources that are not available here. I'd like to see ONE person show me where my reasoning makes no sense.
It isn't that your reasoning makes no sense. The whole issue was that some people were interested in your project, and with your whole "moved/closed" and then the thing about knowing where to find the people that were interested and your not wanting to make the new location public knowledge except to those who contributed something, kind of felt like an "F you" to the ones who had an interest in this and felt like they were being left out of the loop. Perhaps it was misinterpreted. But you did a good deal of misinterpreting yourself, Erik said absolutely nothing other than expressing interest in knowing where to look for news on this edit in the future, and you called him and troll along with about a zillion other insults. Adywan did nothing but offer some advice and express how well this worked out for him, and you threw insults at him.
You have every right to move this, but for those people who had some interest in your project, it would have been nice to give them more information. Just because you were moving this didn't mean you needed to erase the first post. And of course you are not obligated to let anyone know, nobody said you were, they just said they think you should have. The fact that people were disappointed about what happened should have been taken as a compliment to you, the majority of edits announced on these boards people could careless about, many of them stop getting updated as the editor looses interest, and the threads simply disappear into the abyss. Any modicum of interest I may have had in this rapidly disappeared once you starting acting like such an ass to people who were being pretty nice to you. You might want to think about working on your people skills.
The reason why personal blogs have not gone over so well for fanedits in the past is that the blog is tied directly to you, you are much more in the open and much more vulnerable to the lawyer of the powers that be. Forms tend to get away with all kinds of things, but with a blog don't be surprised if you are contacted directly with a cease and desist letter. Just be sure you know what you are doing and be careful how you market this, it is after all copyright material that you have absolutely no claim of ownership to.