I may have to abandon the Corin thunk thread at GW

[switch842]

Cos apparently everyone over there "takes glee" (direct quote) in Daniel dying in Meridian. WTF people? Seriously... Ugh. I know some people don't like Daniel (how, I have no idea), but to take glee in his characters death? Come on people, that's just a bit much. And it's a Jonas thunk thread not a Daniel bashing thread. Stupid people....

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[fluffy-twk.livejournal.com]

Sorry. You're absolutely right.
I guess I was disappointed after finding wank all over a fun thread (I'm constantly astounded that such a divisive character has an almost wank-free thread), and an all too familiar complaint about bashing a fictional character in a post bashing real people who have nothing to do with it, so it hit my auto response mode. Maybe I spend too much time hoping that people can understand fans of [insert character] are not homogeneous groups.

It's a shame if you feel that you can't come and play. As you well know the Daniel rarely comes up, and you can, like other people have, say "Hey, I like Daniel!"
Or you can distract everyone by posting pretty pictures. :D

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I never wanted any kind of wank from any of this. This was just me, coming home from a nice little vacation weekend away and feeling slightly disappointed at the possible direction I saw the thread taking and needed to let that frustration out. I didn't wand it to get back there and was just trying to wait it out and hope that it didn't evolve into anything more. I was not attacking anyone in particular and it's a shame people have to take things so personally. I just don't get character bashing at all. It seems like such a waste of time. If you hate a character so much, why do you want to spend so much time discussing why you hate them? Why can't we all just get along?

[fluffy-twk.livejournal.com]

Whether you wanted wank or not, the unfortunate thing about the internet is that there are always some clever souls who think your post is a great excuse go jump on someone who thinks different to them. And then it gets personal. Which goes double for a thread of very few posters.

It was just a possible direction, and it's not a direction we particularly like to go in since it hands ammunition to more bashers/bashing. I guess because normally ignoring it, or gently nudging away from it, usually works there was noticably no great reaction in the thread. It doesn't mean mass agreement. Consider it an "aaaand we're walking".

In the unlikely event of it going the way you thought there are certainly a few people who would have coughed loudly and pointed out it was inappropriate. Still, it would have been swifter to politely say something "in-house" as it were (and I'm 99.9% certain you would have got an "Oops, sorry" at that point).

I've always felt the thread was very welcoming of different opinions. If you like Corin, accepting the different seems a positive requirement. :D