Tennie Wrote:I know that ATT and TVT aren't on speaking terms for reasons, but ifGethN7, whose internet is on the fritz (something about losing the token?), wants me to let you know that you really don't have much to worry about. No one is moving towards any action against either site.
there's one thing that I actually fear it would be this little "cold
war" going hot for whatever reason (probably via stuff like litigation,
internet vandalism, etc.). I've actually come up with a list of
possible culprits for such a scenario, and the likelihood of such
factions being responsible:
The funny thing here is that your analysis is more or less backwards. Right now, we have all quiet on the internet front -- SA has mentioned us all of once, Project After doesn't mind us, BTL got bored of us when they realized that trolling us was impossible, and ED is friendly. Other communities could get involved, but I really don't see any of them having more of a passing interest. Most of the highly trollable things are gone, like Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel; the only bait remaining are the loli and porn tropes which, well, Wikipedia has pages on that stuff too. We are a truly boring trolling target because we think trolling is either boring or funny.
TV Tropes is a little more likely to start things, because they have a history of doing stupid reactionary decisions in the past. The original relicensing happened when the site was ripped; the "we own all the content" passed when the fork was launched. If we get some big promotion from another sector of the internet, we can expect yet another dumb defensive measure by their admins. But to be honest: they're doing their level best to ignore us as hard as possible.
And finally that leaves things to All The Tropes. We're easily the most likely to start shit. Truth be told, I'm kind of a hothead (and my Wisdom score is just terrible). And the fact that the site even exists is an expression of my anger at TV Tropes, more than a year later. Anger is the emotion for "something is wrong", and I wish I could fix that wrong. Of course, we're the rebel faction -- and revolutionaries are always the ones to take principled stands. I'm sure Bob has at least a little bit of Doug Sangnoir in him as well.
The thing that stops us from launching a legal offensive -- which would be terribly easy to do, just one email away -- is the idea of getting our revenge through success. If we can show people that we made a better community, better software, more content, more openness, then we will have truly won. This is not my first rodeo. I've tried the other way, and while the attacks were fun at the time, I ended up losing the war. So this time, we're gonna win by being smarter and working harder than our rivals. ????????!
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