[t4tstarvingdog]

“start your free trial now” what if i told u i am already experiencing trials. and the cost is more than i can bear

[tragicburnout]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep

[tarragonthedragon]

i just got the "see where your blood has gone!" email from giving blood but it glitched and just showed me my current location. which. theyre not wrong. that is where most of my blood is

[americachavez]

harry potter fandom experiencing such a revival in the last 5 or so years to the point where 5 out of the top 10 ships on ao3 this year are hp AFTER that woman started fully funding hate campaigns with her royalties is so bleak. fandom isn’t an indicator of morality but what are we doing here man.

[amuseoffyre]

I don't know if people are aware, but in the middle of last year, there was a whole mess of batch-uploading/account connecting from the former FictionAlley site and it wasn't necessarily done by the author.

I assumed the site was dead and all my fics were long lost. I'd also been going through every archive I could find where my Potter fics were still available and purging them all.

So imagine my surprise when I start getting notifications that multiple Potter fics have been added to my account and attributed to me. They were mine, but they weren't being added by me - my email for FA and my email for AO3 were the same, so there was some weird importing/association shenanigans happening which meant I suddenly had 20+ and rising Potter fics turning up on my account.

Thankfully, there was an option to let them to know to stop slapping my fics onto my account without my approval. I get there's some element of "we're archiving fics for the future", but that was a horrible, horrible thing to wake up to. I don't want to be associated by that woman any more than I have to be, even if that fandom was once incredibly important to me.

In the end I had to go back through my account and manually delete every. single. one. I think I was at upwards of 40 by the time they stopped.

I don't know if this has happened to other authors or if, to 'archive' said fics, they are importing them under the FA name. I just know it would be worth having a check on AO3 to make sure your fics aren't there under an old e-mail address.

[palis-delon]

I think that's the Open Door program. If the admins of a fic archive decide they can't run it anymore they can contact AO3 and have the full archive imported over.

[rfpreiwaphase]

y'all. archive means archive ALL OF IT no matter its actual moral or social standing. AO3 is not even a library. it's an archive. if there are ten copies of mein kampf they will keep all ten copies.

this is literally what archives do.

and they'd better be doing that, because they're a non-profit.

AO3 IS NOT SOCIAL MEDIA.

further, y'all are so immensely not even remotely aiming at the actual perpetrators. AO3 allows you to mass delete, mass orphan, mass lock, in one button. it is from the Edit Works button under your name in the dashboard.

if you'd just calmed down and read the FAQ or asked support volunteers, you'd have known that,

instead of attaching these unrelated grievances to a place that is equally under-fire by the exact same forces fucking with trans people.

[sequencefairy]

Also, just in case people find it difficult to go on ao3 and find out how the archiving works and what your options are, here are in the instructions:

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on [fanfic archive]?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your [fanfic archive] pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.

You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.

You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).

You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.

You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.

You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your [fanfic archive] account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the [fanfic archive] mod to confirm your claims.)

[queenofattolia]

i will point out that...no that is NOT what archives do (archivist here). we absolutely make decisions about what we preserve and what we don't because we do not have unlimited resources. we would not keep ten copies of mein kampf unless all ten were annotated by different important figures.

like, the question of whether the open doors policy is a good one or not is one i have mixed feelings about and i don't particularly feel the need to share those feelings. but i DO want people to know that this description of what an archive is is incorrect. an individual archive could of course choose to keep everything within a certain category or something, but it is NOT a default position for an archive and personally i have never encountered an archive that doesn't make very intentional choices about what to preserve and what not to preserve.

[likorys-shimenawa]

And how many online-only archives you worked on?

[queenofattolia]

multiple, thanks for asking!

[likorys-shimenawa]

Then why are you using examples of physical books - which come with restrictions of physical space - to talk about online-only archive? Do you always compare apples to beach-balls, or just when you want to win the argument?

I'll ignore comparing fanfic to Main Kampf, cause that's manipulation too pathetic to comment on, honestly.

[queenofattolia]

okay. let's talk about digital materials.

digital materials require servers in order to exist. servers cost money both to buy (or rent) and to maintain and then, inevitably, to update when they become obsolete. they take up physical space (see: data centers). they use resources like energy, derived from wherever, and (increasingly) water.

digital materials require digital preservation. digital preservation requires specific software and the people who know how to use it. just monitoring digital objects for bitrot, for instance, is a job in and of itself. i myself don't work with the digital preservation side of things as much, but i have colleagues who do, and they are constantly busy and never have enough time and resources to take care of everything. they earn their paychecks.

digital materials require metadata to make them useful and accessible. metadata creation takes time, human work hours, knowledge, decision-making, policies, workflows, etc. (as an aside: ao3's creation of metadata is incredible. i would do some things differently, but i admire their metadata immensely.)

people act like there aren’t limits to digital records. like because the digital object doesn’t take up physical space, that we can save an infinite amount of digital objects. but this is not true.

preserving and making accessible digital materials is just as costly and time-intensive as preserving and making accessible physical materials. just in different ways. i do work more frequently (but definitely not exclusively) with physical materials, so i was drawing on my experience there to combat the claim of WHAT AN ARCHIVE IS.

an archive preserves (and, most of the time, makes accessible to either the general public or certain groups) cultural heritage. what it chooses to preserve or not is up to the people leading that archive.

the people whose jobs it is to preserve and make accessible anything are going to have to make choices about what is worth keeping. we collaboratively weigh dozens of factors in making those decisions, drawing on both our education and (much more importantly) our experience. every archive has a different collections policy. these policies change over time.

but people online, who have no firsthand experience with archives of any kind, keep making the claim that an archive by definition keeps everything. again: factually incorrect. that is what i was pushing back against. every archive (including digital ones) makes curatorial decisions.

the otw has every right to make the curatorial (and political) decision to preserve every single fic they can get their hands on. i have mixed feelings, both positive and negative about that decision, but those are irrelevant to this discussion.

what i am saying is that them deciding to keep everything is a curatorial decision. again: people who say that an archive keeps everything are wrong.

[likorys-shimenawa]

Just to clarify: the claims about archive keeping >everything< was made in direct opposition to calls to remove 'morally objectionable' content. At no point did you address that and instead derailing the discussion completely.

Since you did not answer my questions beside petty 'I have black friends' argument in tags, I can't say I'm interested in continuing this discussion.

[queenofattolia]

no. i was not derailing. these people said "archives keep everything, therefore, they have to keep things some people might find morally objectionable." that was their argument.

their argument was built on an incorrect assertion and a misunderstanding of what archives are. i was correcting that assertion because it pisses me off when people who don't know what they're talking about make statements about what archives are and are not.

people can make other arguments--specifically, they can say, "otw's collections policy is built around the assumption that they will keep everything." i cannot argue with that. that is a fact. but they did not say that. they said something incorrect about my field. they were using their incorrect understanding of what an archive is to support their argument, and i resent that, even if i agree with them that otw has every right to keep anything and everything they want to keep.

i simply do not believe you that you don't understand that a line of argument can be incorrect even if it's support of a policy you (or i, for that matter!) agree with.

an argument based on faulty information makes for a bad argument, which your opponents can then use to undermine your argument. if you want to make a truly strong argument, you should ensure that your arguments are based on facts, which these people did not do. the correct response is, "oh, gee, i didn't know that about archives! i will now change my argument to 'the otw's collections policy is to keep everything and they have a right to do that and if you have a problem with it, go make your own archive.'"

[likorys-shimenawa]

I'm not interested in further discussion. Continue and you'll be blocked.

Also, I won't keep it to tags like you, but I apologize for the Main Kampf question - it was their example first. Must've slipped my mind by the time I was responding.

It's very telling how you directly reference that, but somehow miss their core point despite it being literally 2 sentences before.

[minas-elessar]

@likorys-shimenawa dude are you good? I think you maybe ought to step away from the internet. You’re big mad and aggressive for no reason at someone who…works in archiving…but even not getting into the topic, you’re rude as hell.

Take a walk around the block.

[likorys-shimenawa]

I see the highlighted screenshot wasn't enough to make you notice the point they missed either, huh?

Go stroke your ego with someone else or get blocked.

[minas-elessar]

I really could not care less what points anyone missed, your attitude is rancid.

[americachavez]

harry potter fandom experiencing such a revival in the last 5 or so years to the point where 5 out of the top 10 ships on ao3 this year are hp AFTER that woman started fully funding hate campaigns with her royalties is so bleak. fandom isn’t an indicator of morality but what are we doing here man.

[amuseoffyre]

I don't know if people are aware, but in the middle of last year, there was a whole mess of batch-uploading/account connecting from the former FictionAlley site and it wasn't necessarily done by the author.

I assumed the site was dead and all my fics were long lost. I'd also been going through every archive I could find where my Potter fics were still available and purging them all.

So imagine my surprise when I start getting notifications that multiple Potter fics have been added to my account and attributed to me. They were mine, but they weren't being added by me - my email for FA and my email for AO3 were the same, so there was some weird importing/association shenanigans happening which meant I suddenly had 20+ and rising Potter fics turning up on my account.

Thankfully, there was an option to let them to know to stop slapping my fics onto my account without my approval. I get there's some element of "we're archiving fics for the future", but that was a horrible, horrible thing to wake up to. I don't want to be associated by that woman any more than I have to be, even if that fandom was once incredibly important to me.

In the end I had to go back through my account and manually delete every. single. one. I think I was at upwards of 40 by the time they stopped.

I don't know if this has happened to other authors or if, to 'archive' said fics, they are importing them under the FA name. I just know it would be worth having a check on AO3 to make sure your fics aren't there under an old e-mail address.

[palis-delon]

I think that's the Open Door program. If the admins of a fic archive decide they can't run it anymore they can contact AO3 and have the full archive imported over.

[rfpreiwaphase]

y'all. archive means archive ALL OF IT no matter its actual moral or social standing. AO3 is not even a library. it's an archive. if there are ten copies of mein kampf they will keep all ten copies.

this is literally what archives do.

and they'd better be doing that, because they're a non-profit.

AO3 IS NOT SOCIAL MEDIA.

further, y'all are so immensely not even remotely aiming at the actual perpetrators. AO3 allows you to mass delete, mass orphan, mass lock, in one button. it is from the Edit Works button under your name in the dashboard.

if you'd just calmed down and read the FAQ or asked support volunteers, you'd have known that,

instead of attaching these unrelated grievances to a place that is equally under-fire by the exact same forces fucking with trans people.

[sequencefairy]

Also, just in case people find it difficult to go on ao3 and find out how the archiving works and what your options are, here are in the instructions:

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on [fanfic archive]?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your [fanfic archive] pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.

You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.

You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).

You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.

You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.

You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your [fanfic archive] account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the [fanfic archive] mod to confirm your claims.)

[queenofattolia]

i will point out that...no that is NOT what archives do (archivist here). we absolutely make decisions about what we preserve and what we don't because we do not have unlimited resources. we would not keep ten copies of mein kampf unless all ten were annotated by different important figures.

like, the question of whether the open doors policy is a good one or not is one i have mixed feelings about and i don't particularly feel the need to share those feelings. but i DO want people to know that this description of what an archive is is incorrect. an individual archive could of course choose to keep everything within a certain category or something, but it is NOT a default position for an archive and personally i have never encountered an archive that doesn't make very intentional choices about what to preserve and what not to preserve.

[likorys-shimenawa]

And how many online-only archives you worked on?

[queenofattolia]

multiple, thanks for asking!

[likorys-shimenawa]

Then why are you using examples of physical books - which come with restrictions of physical space - to talk about online-only archive? Do you always compare apples to beach-balls, or just when you want to win the argument?

I'll ignore comparing fanfic to Main Kampf, cause that's manipulation too pathetic to comment on, honestly.

[queenofattolia]

okay. let's talk about digital materials.

digital materials require servers in order to exist. servers cost money both to buy (or rent) and to maintain and then, inevitably, to update when they become obsolete. they take up physical space (see: data centers). they use resources like energy, derived from wherever, and (increasingly) water.

digital materials require digital preservation. digital preservation requires specific software and the people who know how to use it. just monitoring digital objects for bitrot, for instance, is a job in and of itself. i myself don't work with the digital preservation side of things as much, but i have colleagues who do, and they are constantly busy and never have enough time and resources to take care of everything. they earn their paychecks.

digital materials require metadata to make them useful and accessible. metadata creation takes time, human work hours, knowledge, decision-making, policies, workflows, etc. (as an aside: ao3's creation of metadata is incredible. i would do some things differently, but i admire their metadata immensely.)

people act like there aren’t limits to digital records. like because the digital object doesn’t take up physical space, that we can save an infinite amount of digital objects. but this is not true.

preserving and making accessible digital materials is just as costly and time-intensive as preserving and making accessible physical materials. just in different ways. i do work more frequently (but definitely not exclusively) with physical materials, so i was drawing on my experience there to combat the claim of WHAT AN ARCHIVE IS.

an archive preserves (and, most of the time, makes accessible to either the general public or certain groups) cultural heritage. what it chooses to preserve or not is up to the people leading that archive.

the people whose jobs it is to preserve and make accessible anything are going to have to make choices about what is worth keeping. we collaboratively weigh dozens of factors in making those decisions, drawing on both our education and (much more importantly) our experience. every archive has a different collections policy. these policies change over time.

but people online, who have no firsthand experience with archives of any kind, keep making the claim that an archive by definition keeps everything. again: factually incorrect. that is what i was pushing back against. every archive (including digital ones) makes curatorial decisions.

the otw has every right to make the curatorial (and political) decision to preserve every single fic they can get their hands on. i have mixed feelings, both positive and negative about that decision, but those are irrelevant to this discussion.

what i am saying is that them deciding to keep everything is a curatorial decision. again: people who say that an archive keeps everything are wrong.

[likorys-shimenawa]

Just to clarify: the claims about archive keeping >everything< was made in direct opposition to calls to remove 'morally objectionable' content. At no point did you address that and instead derailing the discussion completely.

Since you did not answer my questions beside petty 'I have black friends' argument in tags, I can't say I'm interested in continuing this discussion.

[queenofattolia]

no. i was not derailing. these people said "archives keep everything, therefore, they have to keep things some people might find morally objectionable." that was their argument.

their argument was built on an incorrect assertion and a misunderstanding of what archives are. i was correcting that assertion because it pisses me off when people who don't know what they're talking about make statements about what archives are and are not.

people can make other arguments--specifically, they can say, "otw's collections policy is built around the assumption that they will keep everything." i cannot argue with that. that is a fact. but they did not say that. they said something incorrect about my field. they were using their incorrect understanding of what an archive is to support their argument, and i resent that, even if i agree with them that otw has every right to keep anything and everything they want to keep.

i simply do not believe you that you don't understand that a line of argument can be incorrect even if it's support of a policy you (or i, for that matter!) agree with.

an argument based on faulty information makes for a bad argument, which your opponents can then use to undermine your argument. if you want to make a truly strong argument, you should ensure that your arguments are based on facts, which these people did not do. the correct response is, "oh, gee, i didn't know that about archives! i will now change my argument to 'the otw's collections policy is to keep everything and they have a right to do that and if you have a problem with it, go make your own archive.'"

[likorys-shimenawa]

I'm not interested in further discussion. Continue and you'll be blocked.

Also, I won't keep it to tags like you, but I apologize for the Main Kampf question - it was their example first. Must've slipped my mind by the time I was responding.

It's very telling how you directly reference that, but somehow miss their core point despite it being literally 2 sentences before.

[minas-elessar]

@likorys-shimenawa dude are you good? I think you maybe ought to step away from the internet. You’re big mad and aggressive for no reason at someone who…works in archiving…but even not getting into the topic, you’re rude as hell.

Take a walk around the block.

[likorys-shimenawa]

I see the highlighted screenshot wasn't enough to make you notice the point they missed either, huh?

Go stroke your ego with someone else or get blocked.

[minas-elessar]

Buddy, you can go right ahead and block me, someone just needed to point out what a dingbat you’re acting like. Whoever raised you missed out on some basic social graces. It looks like the only thing you’ve been up to today is reblogging so I really once again suggest a walk. Learn how to disagree and have conversations without acting like a toddler throwing a tantrum. Thanks 💋

[americachavez]

harry potter fandom experiencing such a revival in the last 5 or so years to the point where 5 out of the top 10 ships on ao3 this year are hp AFTER that woman started fully funding hate campaigns with her royalties is so bleak. fandom isn’t an indicator of morality but what are we doing here man.

[amuseoffyre]

I don't know if people are aware, but in the middle of last year, there was a whole mess of batch-uploading/account connecting from the former FictionAlley site and it wasn't necessarily done by the author.

I assumed the site was dead and all my fics were long lost. I'd also been going through every archive I could find where my Potter fics were still available and purging them all.

So imagine my surprise when I start getting notifications that multiple Potter fics have been added to my account and attributed to me. They were mine, but they weren't being added by me - my email for FA and my email for AO3 were the same, so there was some weird importing/association shenanigans happening which meant I suddenly had 20+ and rising Potter fics turning up on my account.

Thankfully, there was an option to let them to know to stop slapping my fics onto my account without my approval. I get there's some element of "we're archiving fics for the future", but that was a horrible, horrible thing to wake up to. I don't want to be associated by that woman any more than I have to be, even if that fandom was once incredibly important to me.

In the end I had to go back through my account and manually delete every. single. one. I think I was at upwards of 40 by the time they stopped.

I don't know if this has happened to other authors or if, to 'archive' said fics, they are importing them under the FA name. I just know it would be worth having a check on AO3 to make sure your fics aren't there under an old e-mail address.

[palis-delon]

I think that's the Open Door program. If the admins of a fic archive decide they can't run it anymore they can contact AO3 and have the full archive imported over.

[rfpreiwaphase]

y'all. archive means archive ALL OF IT no matter its actual moral or social standing. AO3 is not even a library. it's an archive. if there are ten copies of mein kampf they will keep all ten copies.

this is literally what archives do.

and they'd better be doing that, because they're a non-profit.

AO3 IS NOT SOCIAL MEDIA.

further, y'all are so immensely not even remotely aiming at the actual perpetrators. AO3 allows you to mass delete, mass orphan, mass lock, in one button. it is from the Edit Works button under your name in the dashboard.

if you'd just calmed down and read the FAQ or asked support volunteers, you'd have known that,

instead of attaching these unrelated grievances to a place that is equally under-fire by the exact same forces fucking with trans people.

[sequencefairy]

Also, just in case people find it difficult to go on ao3 and find out how the archiving works and what your options are, here are in the instructions:

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on [fanfic archive]?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your [fanfic archive] pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.

You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.

You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).

You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.

You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.

You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your [fanfic archive] account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the [fanfic archive] mod to confirm your claims.)

[queenofattolia]

i will point out that...no that is NOT what archives do (archivist here). we absolutely make decisions about what we preserve and what we don't because we do not have unlimited resources. we would not keep ten copies of mein kampf unless all ten were annotated by different important figures.

like, the question of whether the open doors policy is a good one or not is one i have mixed feelings about and i don't particularly feel the need to share those feelings. but i DO want people to know that this description of what an archive is is incorrect. an individual archive could of course choose to keep everything within a certain category or something, but it is NOT a default position for an archive and personally i have never encountered an archive that doesn't make very intentional choices about what to preserve and what not to preserve.

[likorys-shimenawa]

And how many online-only archives you worked on?

[queenofattolia]

multiple, thanks for asking!

[likorys-shimenawa]

Then why are you using examples of physical books - which come with restrictions of physical space - to talk about online-only archive? Do you always compare apples to beach-balls, or just when you want to win the argument?

I'll ignore comparing fanfic to Main Kampf, cause that's manipulation too pathetic to comment on, honestly.

[queenofattolia]

okay. let's talk about digital materials.

digital materials require servers in order to exist. servers cost money both to buy (or rent) and to maintain and then, inevitably, to update when they become obsolete. they take up physical space (see: data centers). they use resources like energy, derived from wherever, and (increasingly) water.

digital materials require digital preservation. digital preservation requires specific software and the people who know how to use it. just monitoring digital objects for bitrot, for instance, is a job in and of itself. i myself don't work with the digital preservation side of things as much, but i have colleagues who do, and they are constantly busy and never have enough time and resources to take care of everything. they earn their paychecks.

digital materials require metadata to make them useful and accessible. metadata creation takes time, human work hours, knowledge, decision-making, policies, workflows, etc. (as an aside: ao3's creation of metadata is incredible. i would do some things differently, but i admire their metadata immensely.)

people act like there aren’t limits to digital records. like because the digital object doesn’t take up physical space, that we can save an infinite amount of digital objects. but this is not true.

preserving and making accessible digital materials is just as costly and time-intensive as preserving and making accessible physical materials. just in different ways. i do work more frequently (but definitely not exclusively) with physical materials, so i was drawing on my experience there to combat the claim of WHAT AN ARCHIVE IS.

an archive preserves (and, most of the time, makes accessible to either the general public or certain groups) cultural heritage. what it chooses to preserve or not is up to the people leading that archive.

the people whose jobs it is to preserve and make accessible anything are going to have to make choices about what is worth keeping. we collaboratively weigh dozens of factors in making those decisions, drawing on both our education and (much more importantly) our experience. every archive has a different collections policy. these policies change over time.

but people online, who have no firsthand experience with archives of any kind, keep making the claim that an archive by definition keeps everything. again: factually incorrect. that is what i was pushing back against. every archive (including digital ones) makes curatorial decisions.

the otw has every right to make the curatorial (and political) decision to preserve every single fic they can get their hands on. i have mixed feelings, both positive and negative about that decision, but those are irrelevant to this discussion.

what i am saying is that them deciding to keep everything is a curatorial decision. again: people who say that an archive keeps everything are wrong.

[likorys-shimenawa]

Just to clarify: the claims about archive keeping >everything< was made in direct opposition to calls to remove 'morally objectionable' content. At no point did you address that and instead derailing the discussion completely.

Since you did not answer my questions beside petty 'I have black friends' argument in tags, I can't say I'm interested in continuing this discussion.

[queenofattolia]

no. i was not derailing. these people said "archives keep everything, therefore, they have to keep things some people might find morally objectionable." that was their argument.

their argument was built on an incorrect assertion and a misunderstanding of what archives are. i was correcting that assertion because it pisses me off when people who don't know what they're talking about make statements about what archives are and are not.

people can make other arguments--specifically, they can say, "otw's collections policy is built around the assumption that they will keep everything." i cannot argue with that. that is a fact. but they did not say that. they said something incorrect about my field. they were using their incorrect understanding of what an archive is to support their argument, and i resent that, even if i agree with them that otw has every right to keep anything and everything they want to keep.

i simply do not believe you that you don't understand that a line of argument can be incorrect even if it's support of a policy you (or i, for that matter!) agree with.

an argument based on faulty information makes for a bad argument, which your opponents can then use to undermine your argument. if you want to make a truly strong argument, you should ensure that your arguments are based on facts, which these people did not do. the correct response is, "oh, gee, i didn't know that about archives! i will now change my argument to 'the otw's collections policy is to keep everything and they have a right to do that and if you have a problem with it, go make your own archive.'"

[likorys-shimenawa]

I'm not interested in further discussion. Continue and you'll be blocked.

Also, I won't keep it to tags like you, but I apologize for the Main Kampf question - it was their example first. Must've slipped my mind by the time I was responding.

It's very telling how you directly reference that, but somehow miss their core point despite it being literally 2 sentences before.

[minas-elessar]

@likorys-shimenawa dude are you good? I think you maybe ought to step away from the internet. You’re big mad and aggressive for no reason at someone who…works in archiving…but even not getting into the topic, you’re rude as hell.

Take a walk around the block.

[qamar2026]

I write these words with a broken heart. To those who read this and choose to ignore it, you can simply scroll past, but I am living through the most difficult moments of my life. My husband is slowly dying before my eyes. Due to a severe head and jaw injury, he has been unable to eat or drink for over a week, his weight has dropped to just 39 kilograms, and he is suffering from severe, life-threatening malnutrition.

[qamar2026]

The doctors confirmed he needs urgent surgery, but we can't afford the operation and treatment. I feel helpless watching him weaken day by day, while time is running out.💔

chuffed - Vetted#53

[qamar2026]

I'm not asking for the impossible; I'm simply asking for a chance to save his life. Please, if you can't donate, don't hesitate to share our story. It might reach someone who can give him a new lease on life.💔🙏

[pausepostsfundraisers]

This campaign is vetted and currently at $3,115/$10,000.

Please help if you can.

You can donate here:

Samar's Urgent Plea: Save Qamar and Omar

My name is Samar. I write from a fragile tent in Gaza, a mother who loves her two little children with all her heart. My husband is severely

[qamar2026]

Please donate now. Your support could save his life.

[professionalmushroom]

Please donate to their campaign if it’s possible and share !!

[qamar2026]

Please, I am in urgent need of a donation right now.

[jezior0]

$4,454 raised out of the $10,000 goal as for now! Please, help however you can!!!

[qamar2026]

Hashem’s condition is deteriorating, and we cannot face this alone. Every second counts now, as his health worsens without treatment. Please, do not ignore him; your support is his only chance to survive this nightmare.

[bigboyart1]

I have not been as diligent in pointing others to others in need as I should be. With israel "seeking revenge" on Palestinians because one man in the West Bank was defending himself and his family, people's support is especially important. Please support these people if you are able. Their lives depend on our love for our fellow human beings

[kosmogrl]

we got august this week

[spiribia]

Why is so much adult oriented 2d animation bastard ugly, do they know they don’t have to do that? The characters don’t have to projectile vomit all the time either, but maybe that’s asking too much

[girl-mercury]

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

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[pezpenser205]

im sorry but when you grow up and interact with people irl youre gonna have friends where you dont fw their tastes. sometimes youre gonna meet someone chill whos also a hazbin hotel fan or have a really nice coworker that likes taylor swift and youre gonna need to mind your business and shut the fuck up or youre gonna be real lonely

[necropolistheatre]

people hemming and hawing about whether or not JKR taking a nonconsensual photo of another woman's lower body specifically to mock her counts as "upskirting" or not are really overlooking the fact that it's sexualized harassment regardless of pedantic semantics. JKR is a sex pest who harasses women and uses the marginalized status of those women - namely, transhood - to justify her harassment and mistreatment.

like not to be too personal about this but every single person who has ever taken a photo of me without my consent was harassing me. it doesn't matter that they weren't getting photos of my genitals. harassment doesn't need to involve genitals to be a bad thing. jsyk!

[galasgamingcorner]

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[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[transjudas]

never take for granted the moments when you’re not nauseous

[helenvaughans]

[zitasaurusrex]

[honeyriot]