As of 5/22/12 I've locked the post that I originally made on this day about how to Homestuck fandom.

I really don't like retroactively locking things, especially things that have generated discussion like that post did, but there were a few factors that finally convinced me to do it, the two most compelling being: that it was, frankly, a sloppy, badly-and-too-quickly-put-together post to begin with, not written with a wide audience in mind, and I don't actually find it defensible enough to engage with the steady trickle of anons still coming in to tell me that media fans are doing it wrong; and that I just finished a Homestuck canon re-read and confirmed that there's stuff in the how-to-read-the-comic section that's just plain inaccurate (regarding things like how many gaming levels are involved) because I wrote the thing from memory. I don't think it's worth trying to fix the factual errors at this point, since it's served the purpose I wrote it for, but I don't want to leave an inaccurate version up, so, locked now!

So, for posterity, since I locked the evidence: There was a post made on this day called "Guide To Homestuck Fandom"; and I said some stuff in it about how different fandoms work which a lot of people legitimately criticized and I handled that criticism badly and I am sorry about my part in all of that; it was also full of factual errors which nobody criticized to me but which I am ashamed of anyway.

(This is being posted with comments off even though I don't like doing that either, because, well, the kind of discussion that happened around that post *never* ends well - it's not down to any individual commenters, just my inability to deal with yet another round of this discussion - and I'd rather spend that emotional energy writing fic. But I didn't want to just sweep it away under lock so this is the compromise.)