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@ 2009-05-01 05:35 pm UTC
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[identity profile] besamim.insanejournal.com
2009-05-01 11:41 pm UTC (link)
What follows is more of a "community philosophy/mission statement" suggestion than a hard-and-fast rule or feature suggestion.

I would like to see much less knee-jerk negativity in scans_daily. Creator-bashing, publisher-bashing, title-bashing, character-bashing: there was getting to be far too much of this in the old community and it seems to be creeping up here again.

It is not necessary to type "whoreswhoreswhores" every time a writer's name is mentioned. It is not necessary to wish death upon an editor, writer or artist, as opposed to stating in a civil manner what it is about their work you object to. It is not necessary to post long rants about how you'll "never read anything by [title/author/publisher] again" and to curse [author/publisher] for "ruining [a character/your childhood memories]".

I would like to see scans_daily become more of a constructive celebration of comics, rather than a forum to reflexively (and viciously) bash comics one hates. I am emphatically NOT saying there should be no criticism whatsoever of comics. What I am saying is that I'd like to see the focus be on what we love about comics, or how we think comics could be better, not what we hate about them.

And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that people who are incapable of, or unwilling to, contribute to a positive and constructive discussion about comics, and who can only express anger and bitterness about the medium or works therein...should be gently encouraged to find another community.

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[identity profile] ceru.insanejournal.com
2009-05-02 09:25 am UTC (link)
Much love to the icon.

I'm somewhat ambivalent about people being discouraged from expressing their negative feelings very strongly here. Too much hating and complaining can turn a place sour, but sharing your strong feelings, both positive and negative, are an important part of reacting to art--but I wholly agree with this part of the statement: "I would like to see scans_daily become more of a constructive celebration of comics."

I guess I just see some bitching as being constructive, in a roundabout sort of way. This isn't a concrit community for creators--it's a social space for readers.

It would be nice, I suppose, if, when expressing intense dislike of a work or a creator, people were encouraged to lean on the side of articulating what makes them feel that way.

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[identity profile] filbypott.insanejournal.com
2009-05-02 10:41 am UTC (link)
I'd be happy if we just do away with the slew of "Look how stupid Dan Didio is!" posts we've been getting lately, with a block of angry text and one tiny cover for legality.

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[identity profile] ceru.insanejournal.com
2009-05-02 05:22 pm UTC (link)
That is a position I can endorse whole-heartedly!

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[identity profile] filbypott.insanejournal.com
2009-05-02 11:58 pm UTC (link)
Seriously, we need to discourage posts that are made only to complain about something.

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