The author in question discovered that a personal friend (or more than one?) of hers had been badmouthing her on that community. I don't know if she will be back for a while, but I know she was hurt by the whole thing and I imagine she's laying low.
The racist comment in question was deleted, which caused something of a to-do in the community, since they don't believe in deleting comments. I honestly know very little beyond that.
I do agree that the community is set up to be much more than a smack-talking place. I have, however, seen it used as such several times (another one of my friends was emailed a link, presumably by someone in the community, to an anonmeme dogpiling her). People, myself included, feel paranoid about their flists and who might be talking smack about them, since that's also happened a couple of times. Which is a damn shame, because there are perfectly lovely people in bandflesh; however, by definition, I can't tell the good from the bad. So it's one big mess.
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Date: 2008-06-11 12:11 am (UTC)The racist comment in question was deleted, which caused something of a to-do in the community, since they don't believe in deleting comments. I honestly know very little beyond that.
I do agree that the community is set up to be much more than a smack-talking place. I have, however, seen it used as such several times (another one of my friends was emailed a link, presumably by someone in the community, to an anonmeme dogpiling her). People, myself included, feel paranoid about their flists and who might be talking smack about them, since that's also happened a couple of times. Which is a damn shame, because there are perfectly lovely people in bandflesh; however, by definition, I can't tell the good from the bad. So it's one big mess.