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Don't make me send Gene over there.
What is with people sometimes? So I go over to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sga_santa, thinking about signing up and wanting to see who else is signed up, and what do I see but character bashing in the signup at the top of the page, the very first one to catch my eye. What in the world makes someone think a gift exchange is a good place for editorializing about how you don't want to write character x because you'd "rather KILL them" instead? (Caps were theirs, not mine.) Frikkin' asshat.
I was going to post this locked and only on LJ, but you know what? No. Character bashing in your own private journal or ranting how you can't stand such-and-such a character or ship is totally your prerogative. Doing it in a multiship community is nasty and makes a toxic environment for everybody. Every single person in the exchange is specifying certain kinds of fic or certain characters they can't write/don't want to read. The difference is, most of them are doing it politely. The only reason to be a jerk about it is, well ... to be a jerk, basically.
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sga_santa, thinking about signing up and wanting to see who else is signed up, and what do I see but character bashing in the signup at the top of the page, the very first one to catch my eye. What in the world makes someone think a gift exchange is a good place for editorializing about how you don't want to write character x because you'd "rather KILL them" instead? (Caps were theirs, not mine.) Frikkin' asshat.I was going to post this locked and only on LJ, but you know what? No. Character bashing in your own private journal or ranting how you can't stand such-and-such a character or ship is totally your prerogative. Doing it in a multiship community is nasty and makes a toxic environment for everybody. Every single person in the exchange is specifying certain kinds of fic or certain characters they can't write/don't want to read. The difference is, most of them are doing it politely. The only reason to be a jerk about it is, well ... to be a jerk, basically.
This entry is also posted at http://friendshipper.dreamwidth.org/282271.html with