apparently we are doing Imzy round 2.0?
May. 31st, 2018 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sciatrixOr at least, that's what Pillowfort sounds vaguely like to me. Well. Uh. I tried to join and got an error, so that's off to an excellent start.
ETA: And it looks like accounts will no longer be free, so I will not be joining--I'll sign up for something like metafilter since I'm paying for speaking access in a room of folks I already know and love and the work of the moderators that maintain that room, but I'm definitely not paying to join an unknown quantity with no known mod staff and no apparently ability to preview anything. Zzzzst, all interest dead. But I digress...
Honestly, I'm really using this discussion to find more interesting DW folks because I like it here, dammit, and I want to delurk more. So if you've recently had me following you, hi! I'm Sci, or I go by grison in a few places (notably AO3 and Tumblr). This is a general-purpose hi talk to me thread, if you're into things like that? If you've seen me following you, probably it's because I've seen you around for quite a while and am only just now delurking; hi! If you want to get a sense for who the hell I am, most of my longform stuff has been on Metafilter for the last few years; here are a few of the things I've written over there. I suppose I should think about porting some of those discussions over here, but.... meh. There's probably a limit to how much I can get away with pretending not to write my paper for the morning.
Anyway, here's a vague list of interesting conversations I've had, because that seems less awkward than just listing a bunch of identity terms into the void.
On allyship and men.
On the history of the asexual flag.
On my largest peeve about Ant Man. (Probably not for the reasons you think.)
On evangelicals actually putting their money with their mouths on morality.
On the meta I could find about good f/f porn.
On orchids blooming underground.
On parasitism in nature and science fiction, and whether or not we should talk about pregnancy. (Of course we should.)
On the loss of spikes in the (human) penis.
On the time I got very angry about an MRA who did not understand mammoths as well as he thought.
Anyway, hi!
ETA: And it looks like accounts will no longer be free, so I will not be joining--I'll sign up for something like metafilter since I'm paying for speaking access in a room of folks I already know and love and the work of the moderators that maintain that room, but I'm definitely not paying to join an unknown quantity with no known mod staff and no apparently ability to preview anything. Zzzzst, all interest dead. But I digress...
Honestly, I'm really using this discussion to find more interesting DW folks because I like it here, dammit, and I want to delurk more. So if you've recently had me following you, hi! I'm Sci, or I go by grison in a few places (notably AO3 and Tumblr). This is a general-purpose hi talk to me thread, if you're into things like that? If you've seen me following you, probably it's because I've seen you around for quite a while and am only just now delurking; hi! If you want to get a sense for who the hell I am, most of my longform stuff has been on Metafilter for the last few years; here are a few of the things I've written over there. I suppose I should think about porting some of those discussions over here, but.... meh. There's probably a limit to how much I can get away with pretending not to write my paper for the morning.
Anyway, here's a vague list of interesting conversations I've had, because that seems less awkward than just listing a bunch of identity terms into the void.
On allyship and men.
On the history of the asexual flag.
On my largest peeve about Ant Man. (Probably not for the reasons you think.)
On evangelicals actually putting their money with their mouths on morality.
On the meta I could find about good f/f porn.
On orchids blooming underground.
On parasitism in nature and science fiction, and whether or not we should talk about pregnancy. (Of course we should.)
On the loss of spikes in the (human) penis.
On the time I got very angry about an MRA who did not understand mammoths as well as he thought.
Anyway, hi!
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Date: 2018-06-01 03:28 pm (UTC)But journalism students, or creative writing majors, who want to start making a name for themselves before they get out of school--they'd have no problem coming up with a dozen or more, with the pitch of "you keep the rights to your content; you post 4x a week and make at least 20 comments a week and you get to add "Intern at a Social Media Company" to your resume." And then have actual interviews and view writing samples to sort out the ones who fit the style of content the company wants to provide.
I expect they'll eventually be more visible, like Imzy was; for most of its early beta run, you couldn't see the content without a login. But I think that was open signup. I don't know what PF is thinking, to go months between rounds of users; it means there's a large swarm of moribund communities from people who joined during the last wave, posted for three days, and wandered off.