Once more into the Linkspam

[elf]

Warning: some of these posts contain extreme statements of privilege, and some of these posts contain harsh and offensive language. They don't always match up.

la_fields Quick: Someone define me

catherineldf An organized rant about the Lambda Awards

chicklet_girl *puts on flak jacket*

Brent Hartinger at After Elton: Should You Have to be Gay to Win a Lambda Award?

elgraves Some thoughts
ellie Some thoughts (Same post; different sites; different comments)

chasingtides Lambda, Discrimination, And Are You Seriously Saying That?

Teddy Pig: The Founder Of The Lambda Literary Awards Speaks His Mind

senior_witch More links

Comments

[From: alienmarshmallow]

Hi, I'm creamy_martian on livejournal and I would appreciate what you mean by extreme statements of privilege. I was attempting to take a look at the privilege included with it and would appreciate an understanding of what you mean.

[From: elf]

Yours was not one of the posts I meant, for either of the descriptions. I'm sorry if it came off as sounding like all posts fit either or both warnings.

As to exactly which ones do--I'm uncertain. I've been told I've been very biased in these roundups, and don't trust myself to apply specific labels to posts.

[From: alienmarshmallow]

-nods- I would still kinda like to know why you were linking to my post? Because if there's something for me to learn, I would like the chance to do so.

[From: hl]

Er, I'm not elf, but to my understanding (which I'm pretty sure it's right), people linked don't necessarily need to learn anything. (Of course, some may, but that's not the purpose of the link round up.)

This comm links to current discussions on fandom about -ism or oppressions-- it links to any open posts about the current(s) subject(s).

[From: alienmarshmallow]

I did not know that. With the warning, I was/am concerned that I had said something accidentally bigoted.

[From: (Anonymous)]

You know... considering the post is tagged "real life" and "family" maybe it shouldn't have been included at all, considering there's only a brief, passing mention of the Lambda awards?

[From: keeva]

I agree with this anonymous post. I think that in her desire to "be complete" when linkspamming, elf has probably gone overboard in linking to EVERY mention rather than just the significant ones that show some inkling of the larger debate going on.

Dragging someone into this because they mentioned the Lambda awards in passing doesn't seem to be a great way to do anti-oppression activism.

[From: hl]

Er, just to let you know, the post in question has been locked.

[From: inkstone]

Just a suggestion to the admin, but given the confusion voiced in this comment, I think it might be a good idea to clarify the purpose of this community and what the goal of the linkspams are. While it's true the original members are familiar with their history and their origin from rydra_wong's linkspams during RaceFail, the community's purpose has grown to encompass covering all kinds of fail and oppression. As a result, more people are dropping by who don't know the background and don't know the etiquette (I guess that's the right word) of being included in a linkspam post (i.e. it doesn't necessarily mean you're failing, etc.)

So maybe something in the community profile would be a good idea?

[edited to fix borked code]

[From: elf]

Yes; it'd be a good idea to write an "about Linkspam" post, with policies, and a bit of description in the profile.

I'm not sure I should be writing either of those.

[From: inkstone]

Fair enough. I realize the community is currently in flux and at the very least, policies and such NEED to be hammered out before they get written up in the profile. You can't write that stuff up if there's no clear policy from which the admin are working.

[From: nextian]

elf, you said you weren't including boosting-the-signal posts; I wouldn't really consider mine to be more than boosting-the-signal and complaining a little.