JFerio -- I've done my research, I already have a set of DMCA letter templates. I've got whois information so I can do a snailmail send at the very least. (And discovered something interesting when digging it up -- the original wiki admin, Webmonkey Gus, is supposed to have died a few years ago. But he and his company are still listed in the whois records for the latest renewal of the domain name.) I plan to do this by the book and as politely as possible, but yeah, if Eddie blows me off, I will be escalating. But I don't anticipate him blowing me off, honestly, regardless of what mental state he seems to be in. I don't want to turn this into a war.
Rob -- I forgot to mention, I deleted the Fenspace rec, which is at least one thing that you've contributed to.
Look, this is getting a bit out of hand. All I wanted to do was disassociate myself from a new den of censorship, maybe with a little dramatic flair. Well, I got the drama.
And to be honest, I don't have a right to force them not to discuss my work. I had hoped that they would have enough respect for my request to comply, but they don't. Oh well. The world is full of impolite jerks -- like I have to tell anyone on the Internet that. I've left TVTropes, and except for the occasional bit of research I won't be back. That's all I really intended on doing.
Not that I'll discourage anyone from taking independent action.
It occurs to me that one way to make the DW page as useless as it would have been had it stayed deleted would be to poison it -- slowly, over the course of months, add/remove/edit bits to change it from reasonably accurate to wildly wrong, perhaps hilariously so. ("Doug's actually a reincarnated Asian dragon! DW4 is actually set in the Andy Griffith Show! Ernest Borgnine travels with him in an apartment inside one of his motorcycle's panniers!") I might even be persuaded to open a thread just so I can solemnly state in public whatever nonsense someone wants to add with a WordOfGod link. ("According to a post in the author's forums, Doug's body armor is actually made of enchanted Oreo cookies.")
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Rob -- I forgot to mention, I deleted the Fenspace rec, which is at least one thing that you've contributed to.
Quote:I particularly 'liked' the bit where they thought DW was your Old Shame. Y'know, despite it being a continuing work you maintain a forum (in part) to discuss.The really amusing part was that apparently only one person read my original note, which was identical to all my other edit reasons, a polite "please don't do this" instead of a demand, and mischaracterized it in the thread -- and everyone else fed off the mischaracterization and never looked at the original. So they're all reacting out of ignorance to something that doesn't exist.
Oh, and the part where they commented on you being a hypocrite. That was worth a bitter, disappointed laugh or two.
Quote:Okay, Spacebattle post is up.Well. That was useless. (Sorry, BA.)
Look, this is getting a bit out of hand. All I wanted to do was disassociate myself from a new den of censorship, maybe with a little dramatic flair. Well, I got the drama.
And to be honest, I don't have a right to force them not to discuss my work. I had hoped that they would have enough respect for my request to comply, but they don't. Oh well. The world is full of impolite jerks -- like I have to tell anyone on the Internet that. I've left TVTropes, and except for the occasional bit of research I won't be back. That's all I really intended on doing.
Not that I'll discourage anyone from taking independent action.
It occurs to me that one way to make the DW page as useless as it would have been had it stayed deleted would be to poison it -- slowly, over the course of months, add/remove/edit bits to change it from reasonably accurate to wildly wrong, perhaps hilariously so. ("Doug's actually a reincarnated Asian dragon! DW4 is actually set in the Andy Griffith Show! Ernest Borgnine travels with him in an apartment inside one of his motorcycle's panniers!") I might even be persuaded to open a thread just so I can solemnly state in public whatever nonsense someone wants to add with a WordOfGod link. ("According to a post in the author's forums, Doug's body armor is actually made of enchanted Oreo cookies.")
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.