seperis | meta: fanhistory expose

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If you are concerned about privacy issues: Laura Hale has created an LJ bot to pull data on individual fans, the same way she did for Fanfiction.net. If you allow Google to index your LJ posts, your information will likely be scavenged by Fandom History's fabulous new tool.

Charming.

I am desperately not in the mood, but I'm not entirely sure what I'm not in the mood for.

Gakked from

amireal, who gakked from

tzikeh:

So much has been posted about LH and her wiki that it's often impossible to find exactly what you're looking for or what you need to back up your personal evidence. In order to collect the maximum number of references and refutations to laura hale with the minimum amount of work, a delicious account called "fanhistoryexpose" has been created. Anyone who cares to can send links to the account to be archived. (You can learn how to send a delicious link here.)

If you care to, delicious-tag any posts you've read/seen with the tag fanhistory:expose, if you have an account at delicious. The more people who do this, the easier it will be to collect the most information.

It would also be useful if people who have posted about LH lj-tag their own posts with fanhistory:expose as well.

Please pass this information along; the more we codify the tags on delicious and lj, the easier it will be to find what we need and to amass proof.

*dusts hands* I like tagging. That was fun.

ETA: Theoretically, fixed link.

LH AKA partly bouncy AKA etc has posted an apology: I'm using the one mirrored by

nestra to avoid giving her any more traffic. Located here.

The marvelous

slwatson, former sysop at FH, refutes her here in a line by line.

hector_rashbaum, former sysop at Fan History, has further refutation here and

anarchicq provides more information here.

I’ve got the thingie. Half in English, half in squibbly by

ciderpress - fantastic essay on entire icky ickiness of LH and the self-centered pursuit of personal enrichment at the cost of actual people.

My fundamental problem with Laura Hale and her friends is not that they are making money from fandom through googleanalytics or whatever is on the site now or trying to sell the wiki to the highest bidder on content and information that does not belong to her, that was not created by her except for the parts she... fabricated. My problem with Laura Hale and her friends is that they are making money from fandom by lying, by causing distress and real life repercussions, they're making money by gleefully soliciting and generating wank, by making our fandom a fundamentally unsafer and unhappier space. They cause misery, not *just* because they can, but because it puts money in their pockets. All of this is because it's good for *marketing*, it's her viral strategy.

This is not right. I don't care if this is capitalism at work. This is absolutely not right.

(Bolding mine.)

I think she has expressed my feelings on the subject completely. Fantastic piece of meta.

So it's not over, or at least, not yet. As we are--wait, let me quote this--right. A unique marketing opportunity.

liviapenn talks here about partly bouncy's ultimate motive for being an asshat--to wit, selling her wiki.

Quote from partly bouncy:

Had a great big chat with the major Fan History sysops regarding Fan History and its potential and if they'd be comfortable if I ever sold it, etc. The people who are the sysops pretty much realize that, for some of that, I'm sitting on a really nice, pretty comprehensive market research tool. That doesn't even begin to get into various other things I have compiled, like lists of LiveJournal communities that you can advertise your in fandom material on, contact lists, private demographic studies I've done, polling data, etc. The potential there for using that from a marketing perspective at fandom is nice. (It is why Fan History does NOT have a GNLU license and why our privacy policy is rather vague.)

*thoughtful* Well. I am glad her sysops were also awesome with this when she told them about it.

svmadelyn has some thoughts on what partly_bouncy is up to with her open outing of fans and breaking fannish privacy here.

Read these now:

Dejana and Ithiliana on invasions of fannish privacy.

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sighs almost like a sequel, but not so exciting

On LH and aggregating information: please pass on

I Call It Fiction, Myself

required reading: I’ve got the thingie. Half in English, half in squibbly by ciderpress

meta link: liviapenn and fannish profiteering

meta link: fannish privacy redux

required reading: invasions of fannish privacy