Unfortunate situation

[taylorgibbs]

A couple of days ago, I recieved a LJ private message from gibbsgirlabby informing me that there was a situation over on Fanfiction.net. Some individual had posted one story each from me, tejas, xanthelj, and webbgirl. This individual's profile intimated that *she* was the writer of our stories and expressed some negative commentary about spanking fics and kink fics. The inidvidual called us out and seems to have some sort of personal axe to grind.

Needless to say, this is as far from the truth as can be. Xanthe, tejas, webbgirl, and I have very different writing styles and it is ludicrous (not to mention pathological) for anyone to think fandom readership will believe this individual created these stories a year or more after they were net published.

At least I'm in *excellent* company.

And fandom has been nothing short of amazing! I have over 30 LJ messages, tweets, and emails informing me of this. There are a few LJ posts discussing this, both from the authors involved and wonderful people like djmicheals, dietpunkfics, and kateri_e, who were outraged on our behalf. This situation could have been fairly negative, but with fandom's response, it has turned it completely on its head. I'm nore inspired and fired up to write than ever!

I've contacted ff.net and hopefully they'll resolve this situation.

I was going to stay quiet about this, following the whole "don't feed the troll" mentality, but the overwhelming response had me running to my keyboard this morning.

Thank you...thank you for reading, that you for caring, and thank you for being protective of my words on my behalf!

Many hugs! You guys are the *greatest*

Comments

Re: Trolls strike again!

[tejas.livejournal.com]

No one can force anyone to delete their stuff. Anyone who does delete their stuff does so because it's their choice and doesn't require anyone else to act.

I can't imagine what might cause me to delete my stuff from the net, but if I did make that decision, I think it would feel fairly disrespectful for people to clamor for me to repost it.

Also, not knowing who or what you're talking about makes it difficult to know what kind of behavior you're decrying.

Re: Trolls strike again!

[fionastar.livejournal.com]

Okay... I didn't name names because I don't (didn't?) want to cause any more trouble for these people. I think they deleted things out of self-preservation more than anything; sometimes it's not worth fighting the fight.

I guess I'm just pissed that people would stoop to that level of bullying people over the internet, let alone blatant plagerism of their work - something they've laboured over and given their all to. TG, Xanthe and the others copped it badly with this one ripping off their work. I know this person ripped into Crying Cowgirl as well. What kind of person gets their jollies from destroying livelihoods???

Anyways, as I said it was more of a general rant than anything else. I'm not trying to stir trouble, I'm not trying to piss anyone off, I just wanted to let people know that there is still a heap of rot going on. That's all.

Re: Trolls strike again!

[tejas.livejournal.com]

The person wo plagiarized CC isn't the same as the one who plagiarized the four of us.

"Self-preservation"? Annoying as people can be online, 99% of the time what happens online, stays online so there's no danger to anyone. If someone doesn't want to fight, they simply deny the battle and trolls will get bored and go away.

This is fic - no one's livelihood is involved.

I've seen nothing anywhere (except here) about anyone "attacking" her, so I still don't know what you mean. Vague accusations help no one.

Re: Trolls strike again!

[taylorgibbs.livejournal.com]

The person who plagiarized the 4 of us had a very individual reason for targeting us. She claimed we beta read for her. The second plagiarist was a copy cat as far as I can tell.

And you're right, bullying or smearing someone's good name is never a good thing. I can't believe the hate campaigns that this situation has brought to light.

Re: Trolls strike again!

[tejas.livejournal.com]

It is amazing, isn't it?