Special Edition: TWM Content Poll
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thisweekmetaHello all! After the most recent kerfuffle, I thought I would take this opportunity to ask what folks felt would be the best practices for the newsletter regarding certain sites and types of links.
I have made a Content Poll-- it's not long, and if you don't like any of the options you can totally post a comment here instead. It asks about etiquette regarding Dreamwidth/LiveJournal communities, Fanlore pages, Fanlore-found links, and what to do when an Original Poster is not available for contact.
All these questions assume the post being linked is not locked or private, and that the entity doing the linking is a newsletter.
Edit: Some further context for why linking and linking permissions is so hotly debated in fandom (Fanlore).
My own answers are currently along the lines of: community posts are probably fine to link because they were posted widely to begin with; Fanlore pages made through explicit permission of OP is best, but for certain historical meta it's okay to link anyway; linking to Fanlore to provide further context is fine; no way to ask for permission means no link; if the OP has completely disappeared from fandom and/or online, it's fine to link their stuff.
But I want to know what you think! :)
The comments here are open, and I encourage you all to discuss your thoughts with me and with each other. We've had some really good discussions in the last few days, and I'm interested in seeing what you all think about these specific linking situations.
If you can think of anything else that might be missing from either the poll or the editorial guidelines, please let me know.
Thank you! ♥
I have made a Content Poll-- it's not long, and if you don't like any of the options you can totally post a comment here instead. It asks about etiquette regarding Dreamwidth/LiveJournal communities, Fanlore pages, Fanlore-found links, and what to do when an Original Poster is not available for contact.
All these questions assume the post being linked is not locked or private, and that the entity doing the linking is a newsletter.
Edit: Some further context for why linking and linking permissions is so hotly debated in fandom (Fanlore).
My own answers are currently along the lines of: community posts are probably fine to link because they were posted widely to begin with; Fanlore pages made through explicit permission of OP is best, but for certain historical meta it's okay to link anyway; linking to Fanlore to provide further context is fine; no way to ask for permission means no link; if the OP has completely disappeared from fandom and/or online, it's fine to link their stuff.
But I want to know what you think! :)
The comments here are open, and I encourage you all to discuss your thoughts with me and with each other. We've had some really good discussions in the last few days, and I'm interested in seeing what you all think about these specific linking situations.
If you can think of anything else that might be missing from either the poll or the editorial guidelines, please let me know.
Thank you! ♥
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Date: 2019-01-27 03:48 pm (UTC)Taking the lack of privacy controls as permission to link an older post can be a wrong approach, particularly for LJ/IJ/DW. Journalers may have not locked their posts on the belief that since they have only a limited group of "friends", their words will have a limited audience, and as time passes, that audience would dwindle down to zero. Particularly if the journaler had opted out of being searchable.
It's a version of "security through obscurity".
But if a post on an old, defunct but still accessible account gets linked by a popular blog, that intent - security through obscurity - is voided.
For older content (2 years +), if you can't reach a post owner, no matter how relevant the post, don't link. This goes for commentary in a defunct community, too. Let the dead stay dead if you don't have permission to resurrect.