I wasn't suggesting quoting without credit. I was saying that linking back without checking in with the original poster (which in case of DW/LJ you can get by commenting on the original post or sending an ask on tumblr) is not always welcome. And people should take that into consideration.
(For context, there has been controversy over fanlore's choices around quoting posts without context, and saving them via wayback so that the OP has no option to lock them if they want to opt out of the archiving project.)
Who knows, maybe the original poster would like to be part of the project. My idea with this comment is to cut down on hurt feelings and potential wank.
However, I will say, that I find the following a bit odd: And just because you wrote meta in response to someone else's meta and posted it to Tumblr, Twitter or Livejournal and got away with it for years, does not make it better.
Got away with what? That's how fandom conversation works. Yes, I'd like to cut down on wank, and yes I currently try to say "do you mind if I link," but on the whole people aren't just responding to canon, they're also at least in part responding to each other. That's what fandom is.
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Date: 2020-01-27 04:54 am (UTC)(For context, there has been controversy over fanlore's choices around quoting posts without context, and saving them via wayback so that the OP has no option to lock them if they want to opt out of the archiving project.)
Who knows, maybe the original poster would like to be part of the project. My idea with this comment is to cut down on hurt feelings and potential wank.
However, I will say, that I find the following a bit odd:
Got away with what? That's how fandom conversation works. Yes, I'd like to cut down on wank, and yes I currently try to say "do you mind if I link," but on the whole people aren't just responding to canon, they're also at least in part responding to each other. That's what fandom is.