Can’t we just line up all the idiots who code and make spam stuff and just shoot them?

I’m serious.

I just went through and sorted away about a hundred spam accounts from the JediGirl forums – some of them pointed to servers with children’s pornography.

I’m totally and utterly disgusted.

I almost feel like I never want to step foot on the Internet again.

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There was a discussion on the [Kakairu @ lj] community about fan fictions that don’t get recommended even though they’re great, while other fan fictions, albeit great as well, get recommended over and over again. The interesting question to this problem is of course: why is that?

In all fandoms there are fan fictions that are considered to be classics, of a sort, and they are “always” rec-ed even though they are year old, while other fan fictions – some old and some new – are just as brilliant, if not more, yet are “never” rec-ed.

In every fandom there are fan fictions that make up the core of the fanon and “everyone” knows of them, bases their own character and canon interpretations on them, as well as generally completes the circle by recommending it to the next generation of fans.

Why’s that?

The simplest answer I have is that a BNF comes across the fan fiction, likes it, and recommends it – the BNF’s “fans” then decide they like it, because their messiah liked it, and recommends it – the circle goes on.

「悲しい出来事は忘れなさい」- it's fandom.