[ SECRET POST #4003 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4003 ⌋

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Comments

[a_potato]

You know, the odd thing is (and I know it's odd, because it's contrary to pretty much everyone else's experience) I've found it easier to avoid now. There used to be so much shit in the general forums I'd go to, and the ship-centric ones would have all sorts of trash-talking threads, and would attract all sorts of trolls (as would fic).

On tumblr, I've found I can very easily control my experience through who I follow and by how I tag my posts. In three years, I haven't gotten a single hateful message (despite writing for, among other things, an infamous incest ship), and I've only witnessed hate when I've gone looking.

That said, tumblr does make it a lot easier to spearhead harassment campaigns. In many respects, I've been lucky; others have not been.

[nightscale]

Tbh the blacklist and block tools are a god-send because I can literally remove tags and people that I just don't want to see so I've never had a hard time avoiding hate. I either block them or just put the tag in the filter and job-done, and like you I don't go looking for hate in the first place(I never have, even back on forums and LJ).

Now I won't claim that tubmlr fantastic, because it's really not. It's broken in a lot of ways, and the culture on there is definitely scary as shit in places, but it allows you to fully cultivate your dash and I have never gotten a single bit of anon-hate or nasty messages over things I like.

As opposed to LJ where a friend of mine got hate-mail for two solid months because she wrote for the 'wrong ship', and due to an ex-fandom friend name-dropping me in a fight they were having I got constant hate-messages daily until I deleted my account and started over.

The harassment and doxxing is out of line though and I do wish there were actual ways to punish the perpetrators of that.

[a_potato]

I think the prevalence of doxxing is the actual change, and it's really awful and toxic. But given that it's sprouted up across the internet as a whole, I wonder if the only reason it wasn't there before is because we were all much more circumspect about our identities in the old days.

[nightscale]

I think that's part of it certainly, people are a lot more frivolous with the personal information they share online(which just boggles my mind, I never tell people my real name and I'll never post pictures of myself either).

Now this doesn't make the people doxxing free of blame, they're still the shitheads in this situation, but modern internet culture I think does aid towards how common-place and almost acceptable it's become.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, depends on the fandom. I know when I look for fics on ao3 some assholes tag for one ship but just bash a character from that ship they hate and then make their OTP the endgame ship. That's not just one person, it's happened a couple different times.

The ship tags are always a gamble. Sometimes they are safe and sometimes there is some shit stirrer trying to play innocent. Even if you only stick to a few fandom centric blogs they might get caught up in drama.

The smaller or slower moving a fandom is it's probably easier to deal with, some fandoms are impossible to contain.