I'm not sure whether Fox gave them much choice. Be curious to know for certain. Back in 2002-2003, I was active and I mean really active on at least two boards. I posted long essays on Buffy Cross and Stake (the biggest spoiler board in the fandom, which would crash half the time) and on ATPOBTVS board - an older board and more scholarly, which did not permit spoilers. (The only crime you'd get kicked off that board for is if you spoiled the moderator deliberately. BC&S would kick you off if you incited flame wars on a regular basis. They even set up a Shipping News entry - where shippers could go at in rather comic fashion. They were informed not to go at it anywhere else, just on that thread. And if they got nasty, they got deleted. If they kept doing it? Banned.)
I think the reason I don't find the fandom kerfuffles on lj that worrisome is because I've seen worse. I was on BC&S when the stupid satellite provider sent out Seeing Red before they sent Entropy, so people who were watching the show via a satellite feed or downloading - downloaded Seeing Red and saw it first, then saw Entropy, while those of us watching it on UPN and regular broadcast tv saw it in the proper order. We saw Entropy on Tuesday night. They watched Seeing Red on Monday night. Want to see a flame war? That was a flame war.
Was also online during the infamous Marti Noxon bad boyfriend interview in Starburst which hit the internet and people went nutty over. The poor woman was merely trying to promote the show to an overseas audience - they sort of have to do that to some extent, it was a low-rated cult tv series that was always on the brink of cancellation, much like Farscape and Angel were. Promote, promote, promote! Which they were constantly doing. She never lived that article down. Fans to this day hate her for it. I remember fanboards crashing from that article and moderators deleting whole threads.
Oh and then, there was the huge fracas over Spike coming to Angel the Series and how that would ruine Angel. That flame war got so bad - Tim Minear jumped on to the Angel Soul's Board and reamed fans. LOL!
Yeah, Whedon jumped on Bronze Beta at different points, still does, mostly to promote whatever he is currently working on. He's not stupid -the moment people forget you, you will have trouble getting work. The entertainment biz is all about what have you done for me lately and how big is your audience (aka fandom). I know the publishing industry is more likely to publish someone with a huge online fanbase than an unknown quantity right now. And Whedon has gotten into fights with fans. The most notable, was when a fan attacked Marti Noxon's writing on either Grey's Anatomy or Mad Men, and said she was to blame for all the bad writing and bad stories in Buffy, Whedon jumped on the board and nailed the fan to the wall in a snarky comment. He really reamed her. When she came back to defend, which she did. And it looked like it would get ugly, the moderator banned her. Note - this happened on the "whedonesque" board. It's really stupid to attack someone or their friends on their own fanboard. But people do it.
Still? These wars are nothing. SPN, Doctor Who, and the ones in the Sci-Fi community, not to mention on TWOPY and ACIN News - those scare even me. Which is why I tend to avoid those fandoms and boards. ;-)
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I think the reason I don't find the fandom kerfuffles on lj that worrisome is because I've seen worse. I was on BC&S when the stupid satellite provider sent out Seeing Red before they sent Entropy, so people who were watching the show via a satellite feed or downloading - downloaded Seeing Red and saw it first, then saw Entropy, while those of us watching it on UPN and regular broadcast tv saw it in the proper order. We saw Entropy on Tuesday night. They watched Seeing Red on Monday night. Want to see a flame war? That was a flame war.
Was also online during the infamous Marti Noxon bad boyfriend interview in Starburst which hit the internet and people went nutty over. The poor woman was merely trying to promote the show to an overseas audience - they sort of have to do that to some extent, it was a low-rated cult tv series that was always on the brink of cancellation, much like Farscape and Angel were. Promote, promote, promote! Which they were constantly doing. She never lived that article down. Fans to this day hate her for it.
I remember fanboards crashing from that article and moderators deleting whole threads.
Oh and then, there was the huge fracas over Spike coming to Angel the Series and how that would ruine Angel. That flame war got so bad - Tim Minear jumped on to the Angel Soul's Board and reamed fans. LOL!
Yeah, Whedon jumped on Bronze Beta at different points, still does, mostly to promote whatever he is currently working on. He's not stupid -the moment people forget you, you will have trouble getting work. The entertainment biz is all about what have you done for me lately and how big is your audience (aka fandom). I know the publishing industry is more likely to publish someone with a huge online fanbase than an unknown quantity right now.
And Whedon has gotten into fights with fans. The most notable, was when a fan attacked Marti Noxon's writing on either Grey's Anatomy or Mad Men, and said she was to blame for all the bad writing and bad stories in Buffy, Whedon jumped on the board and nailed the fan to the wall in a snarky comment. He really reamed her. When she came back to defend, which she did. And it looked like it would get ugly, the moderator banned her. Note - this happened on the "whedonesque" board. It's really stupid to attack someone or their friends on their own fanboard. But people do it.
Still? These wars are nothing. SPN, Doctor Who, and the ones in the Sci-Fi community, not to mention on TWOPY and ACIN News - those scare even me. Which is why I tend to avoid those fandoms and boards. ;-)