slightly late to the game

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

Was on vacation when this whole thing exploded last week. *sigh*

But I have posted the entirety of my email conversation with Naomi and David Williams that occurred back in March when those first solicitation e-mails went around. I'm not posting this for any spiteful reason. I just want to add it to the public record, as it were. Private information (mine and theirs) has been removed.

ETA: Post edited to remove Naomi's last name, per request of David Williams. 5/28/07, 10:40 pm.

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[miera-c.livejournal.com]

interesting. My old geocities account got deleted for inactivity. That one hasn't been updated since 1999?

[elf]

There's a way to confirm "activity" without exactly updating. I think they just want you to log in and confirm you still care about it. And the deletions are erratic.

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is utterly fascinating for many reasons, but most of all for this from David Williams:

We are not affiliated directly with any entertainment companies, but we do work with several in a friendly, arms-length manner. And, that's how we'd like to keep it. If we are properly asked to remove a member's submission from the site, and the validity of the request is affirmed, then we will comply; when possible, by enforcing a "private" status on that particular submission (so it would still be available to the member).

Confirmation of what many of us have suspected: FanLib is lying when it says the intellectual property owners are ready to jump on the FanLib boat and have an advertising orgy.

It's also confirmation that FanLib knew mid-March their business plan would be reviled by much of fandom. And yet, two months later, they still behaved with utter cluelessness in LJ.

I am not impressed with their ability to adapt and survive.

As the maintainer of this comm, I can see the screened comments. I recommend you delete them.

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

As the maintainer of this comm, I can see the screened comments. I recommend you delete them.

Whoops. Thanks. Done.