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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2003-10-26 03:30 pm
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A curious observation.

Someone has written on the whiteboard of the room next door, "The only person who should write about Harry Potter is J. K. Rowling."

To those of you who haven't lived in a dorm with whiteboards, that's the general equivalent of anonymously starting a thread on a message board. Since I'm out with my fanfic activities, I can't help but wonder if it was intended for me, but since it's next door, not mine, I'm not sure . . .either the girls next door are HP fanficcers and I didn't know, in which case I should talk to them; or the girls next door hate fanfic, in which case I should *really* talk to them; or it was intended for my door and somebody got confused; or it was intended for me, but they weren't brave enough to do something at all direct; or it's entirely random and they didn't even know *I* write fanfic.

Still, I feel like I should do *something*, if only to prevent bad feelings from building; whoever it was put it up there to be read, after all. Any advice?

Maybe I'll take a hint from [livejournal.com profile] fandom_pillory, and turn it into motivation to decorate my door with a giant paper squid, since I was planning to do something for Hallowe'en anyway.
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[identity profile] aelkiss.livejournal.com 2003-10-26 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
My opinion? Don't feed the trolls. If they actually wanted to discuss the matter, then they would have - most likely, they just want to provoke some kind of response and aren't really interested in the merits of the argument on either side. I suggest mysteriously erasing the message late at night and hope it doesn't come back.
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[identity profile] stellar-dust.livejournal.com 2003-10-26 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I vote for the giant paper squid. Yay for squids.

I don't remember ever having message board conversations in the dorm. Jeez, the stuff I missed out on ...

[identity profile] aelkiss.livejournal.com 2003-10-26 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Mind you, not feeding the trolls shouldn't preclude giant squid. Giant squid are good! (Note: You (both) are evil, not that you didn't already know that. My weekend activities other than moving furniture have consisted of reading the archives of Nukees. Up to 10-Jan-2001 by now. Will likely read PhD and CRFH after I finish this (and move more furniture around.)
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[identity profile] stellar-dust.livejournal.com 2003-10-26 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay!

Word of advice, online comics are good (or bad) waste-time-at-work material. Teehee.

[identity profile] aelkiss.livejournal.com 2003-10-27 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. I had to restrain myself from reading all of Nukees on Thursday. Sigh.

[identity profile] zodiaccat.livejournal.com 2003-10-27 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Enlighten them. Tape a copy of someone's fanfic to that same whiteboard (hint: make it someone else's, so as not to appear narcisistic). Let them see how good fanfic can be, since someone making such a comment has obviously never read any (or only read a bad one).

[identity profile] elspethdixon.livejournal.com 2003-10-27 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes, the beauty of dry erase board fights. How vividly I remeber that week my freshman year when somebody was drawing porn (really badly drawn porn) on everybody's boards.

I second the vote for erasing it in the middle of the night. Erase it, replace it with "Fiction Alley Rocks," and most definately put the giant squid on your own door.
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[identity profile] isiscolo.livejournal.com 2003-10-27 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes. A great suggestion. Both the board and the squid.
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