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In other news, the rape tropes are back. I'm under the impression that there's supposed to be a post form FE about it, but I can't actually find it.
Kind of interesting timing.
-Morgan.
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Yup. Having the light of day -- and the attention of the Net at large -- focused on the matter was a critical development. This is what I was hoping would happen when I suggested we contact various outlets back at the start of this.
One upshot is that the bloggers and net.journalists are going to be alert for more censorious shenanigans by TVT in the future, and will not take nearly as long to react when the next squickpurge urge seizes FE.
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Don't let it stop the creation of some mirrors, even if those tropes are back. TVT needs the competition and the scrutiny.
Ideally, when the next squickpurge arrives, not only will it hit the news faster, there will be a number of sites that can say, "Hey, here we are, we do the same content, but we don't get squicked."
I'm still not going back to TVT, though. That Fast Eddie was so... flippant about the rape tropes grates on me more than any other thing that happened. It's his site, he can do what he wants with it, but one should still not treat rape so casually in terms of "easier to eliminate it than fight".
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Agreed. I definitely think a competitor wiki with a "no censorship" pledge is a must-have, even if FE's backed down on the most recent deletions.
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It's in the works. That's all I'll say for now, but I've already put a few hundred lines of code into the project. When I have something that looks remotely wiki-like, I'll let you guys know. Hopefully this week.
I've been pretty head down into the coding aspects of this project, but I'm going to need serious help with the community building. I wouldn't want the wiki to be my personal property, after all.
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Understood -- that's part of the problem over at TVT, after all. Fast Eddie considers it his personal playground that he lets other people into, and not a community that he guides and maintains.
I have some ideas for a very visible pledge and "terms of service", but I haven't put them down on paper/electrons yet. When I do I'll put'em up here for the folks at large to kick around and refine.
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I'm happy to help however I can. Please, keep me in the loop when you're ready for help. Code, setup, whatever. I'd even be willing to float a little cash towards defraying hosting costs, I think, if it came to that.
