One less LJ to read....

[janedavitt]

Just catching up on toft (toft_froggy on LJ) who thought it'd be oh so amusing to waste time by posting absolutely hilariously witty fake requests to a fic-finding comm.

http://toft.dreamwidth.org/548369.html

http://toft.dreamwidth.org/548954.html

Umm. Yeah. Not seeing the funny.

I smiled when I defriended her, though...does that count?

I mean, yes, sometimes the requests in fic-finder comms make my eyebrows shoot up because people are asking for the kind of fics I'd run a mile to AVOID reading. I can also see the funny in making some up and posting them in your own LJ as examples of how weird things can get and people saying, hey, I've read that!, but actually posting them to a real comm and getting people, kind people, to run around looking for them while you smirk to yourself and then wet your knickers laughing when it turns out there really are fics that fit your spoofed criteria?

God, it's this kind of elitist arrogance that makes my lip curl. I loathe humor that hurts people. It seems a contradiction in terms.

Fandom is a place where people are endlessly helpful. Abusing that for a laugh, just...no.

I'm also disgusted by the pages of comments with people applauding her for her actions. I guess they think if they laugh too they're safe from being laughed AT?

Whatever.

Comments

[scrollgirl]

Thank you for saying this. A friend of mine had long suspected toft of trolling the comm, but I had wanted to believe the best of her, that nobody would do something like that--especially someone who has participated in the fandom, written fic for it, aka not an outsider. I don't understand trolls who think lulz at other people's expense is more important than respecting the community that welcomed you.

[janedavitt]

So she wasn't as clever as she thought? Ha.

I don't get it either. It's sucky, rude behaviour.