On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Highlander II wrote: > How does this relate as far as RP threads on journaling sites go? Which > may be where a good bit of 'we wanna keep everything ever' requests may come > from - storing all of that 'history'. Who 'owns' the comments in an LJ > community, for example? The community owner, maintainers, or the people > who've posted the comments? IE: who gets to say 'yes you can publish this' > or 'no you can't, but thank you anyway'?
RPs can always save screenshots etc, and some do and some don't. Our RP makes everyone sign off on the page where they realise that we will keep everything in the game backed up and that if they delete it as a hostile act, we'll put it back up again in another journal, because it's part of the collective backstory (unless we think it sucks so bad we're willing to do the work to retcon it out on the 'scour out the stain' principle, but that's only happened ONCE). Of course recreating comments is a PITA, but that's life. I do think that if you have this kind of RP, it's only fair to warn people and make super extra double sure they understand exactly what's going on. Legally it's a grey area. From a copyright infringement category there isn't much in an RP that's NOT copyright infringement, unless you use all original characters and graphics. And even LW 3.0, which is largely depotterised, is clearly a sort of AU fanfic for...oh, about a dozen or more shows and series of books, &c. Some RPs really don't care. Frankly after 6 years even LW is getting kind of meh about it. Chances are, if someone left because they didn't like us, or if we asked them to leave because they were a jerk...we will eventually end up getting rid of most of their content, because generally people whose content we love do not dislike us and we don't want them to go away. I'd just prefer to be able to do it at a leisurely pace with appropriate retcons instead of waking up to find 200 broken links in my wiki. I think most of the people who want to recreate comments probably *aren't* RPers. They're people who have been using LJ socially, and those comments are their social circle's collective memory, or people who post fic, who would like to keep their feedback (one of the things that upset me most when some a$$hat got my ffn.net account yanked was that I lost all my reviews). LW is pretty much an edge case even in RP-land. Most people are *not* as invested in their continuity as we are. OT: is there any way to keep things from defaulting to a private reply? I'm sure there was a reason for setting it up that way and it is probably a good one I just can't figure out, but it's sometimes problematic when somebody replies to a post and thinks they're talking to everyone, then wonders why someone else didn't seem to get it or isn't replying. Kiri :) **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
