Happy Scanniversary!

[stubbleupdate]

I gave the mods a heads up, but didn't hear anything back, so I'll make the post that Fifteen Years Today, Scans_daily was permanently suspended from LiveJournal.

What a Saturday morning that was!
Stubbleupdate: I crawled out of bed on Saturday morning (which meant that the community would have been deleted late evening/night on Friday, America time) and saw that my inbox had a lot of LJ friends requests from people on the community. I get that sometimes, but four overnight is unusual. They all wanted to know where the community had gone, which is the first that I had heard of it. A lot can happen in six hours on the internet.

And the oral history
What the mods said
What Comicvine said
What Comics Should Be Good said
What MGK said
What Fanlore says
What Kevin Church said (the page is gone, but he said "fuck 'em")
What Peter David said
What Peter David said later
Welcome to Noscans_daily

The community has persisted, in some form, over the last 15 years. There has been a churn of members, some new posters establishing themselves, some posters vanishing. Some I've lost contact with (whatever happened to the poster who posted DIAF? I wonder how she feels). Some I've stayed friends with. And some I've kept an eye on because they're fascinating creatures to be studied.

And, since this is likely my last post here, and I was a mod on two communities, Ask Me Anything and I'll answer as honestly as I can.

Comments

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First of all, a profound apology from the Mods to stubbleupdate.

I didn't get your message, though sistermagpiedid, and she mentioned it to me and I think we just each thought the other was messaging you back. No slight was intended, and we hope none was taken.

As a result of your prompt we had briefly discussed celebrating an anniversary (as I mentioned on last weeks Off Topic Tuesday, I had some on topic news and this was going to be it), though we were aiming more towards our phoenix-like ascension after sd 1.0 went down, when we relocated to first insanejournal, and then to here on Dreamwidth, rather than our rather traumatic eviction from livejournal, but we can see why that memory would linger.

I have that date down as being the 27th Feb, so the Mod Team at that time were REALLY on the ball.

[stubbleupdate]

Yes. DMs and email chains consumed the whole weekend, and then much of the week after.

And after the initial feel good vibe went away it was back to reminding people how to behave, and that was before we would freeze threads. Some posters would rack up three extra infractions while you were typing out your response to their first one.