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[nemorathwald]

Ferrett Steinmetz deleted his Livejournal because the commenting there got so ugly. Several of you are upset about that. Can we agree it was a needless over-reaction? He could have just screened comments or locked comments.

This is the same guy who, the last time the drama llama came around, decided to stay home from ConFusion and Penguicon. This remedy had the effect of punishing the only people who weren't dicks to him. Nobody who was mad at him went to those events. He is establishing a history of responses to being yelled at on his LJ, in which he punishes and rewards precisely the wrong people.

And that is where we ought to leave it-- no more Ferrett blog. The dicks "win", but you know what they say about winning on the internet. Oh well. There's no shortage of entertainment on the web, and we don't need another emo variety. It is inconceivable that, for instance, John Scalzi would ever do this, because he's classy. Ferrett would, because his relationship to his readers is entirely too personal, like a scorned lover.

Unfortunately, that is not where we're leaving it. The problem is, it's working. He's got you blogging in his favor, because he chose a method that rewarded his enemies but targeted you, those who actually like him, to be the ones who pay.

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[ilgreven.livejournal.com]

...and that time was around this time. He is a depression-sufferer (specifically SAD, where late spring-early summer is his season). He's not going to be rational and say, "Oh what will my fans and friends think?" He's going to say, "OMG MAKE THE PAIN AND THE HURT GO AWAY!" He's resisted the impulse far more than he's given in, but that makes it all the more...dramatic...when he does give in.