recursive snark
Aug. 23rd, 2009 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrIt's funny, I used to despise Fandom Wank, and now I quite enjoy it, I couldn't really tell you what's changed. But I have no desire to comment 99% of the time and the vibe of the place sometimes rubs me the wrong way.
Anyway this post about ontd_ai and the resulting post about that post on ontd_ai and then the thread on fw about that post I think sum up the self conscious forced-ness that snark communities can fall prey to. (Well,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dot_gimp_snark seems pretty safe, but that's a different sort of snark)
And no, I'm not doing the same thing. I'm doing quietly smug non-snarky moral-high-ground-taking, which is just as bad but different :D It's definitely as prone to self conscious "By deliberately not falling into this behaviour, am I thus being everything I despise? But by deliberately avoiding that..." recursive loops, rather like "Anyone who calls themselves a hipster isn't really a hipster"/"anyone who tries to be cool isn't cool" etc. I used to worry about this sort of thing a lot more then I decided to just accept that there was no way to avoid being a bit up myself and hypocritical.
(nb I would rather people didn't snark the snarking snarkers, I've reached my limit for the evening. If you like that sort of thing there's two perfectly good posts you can join in on :))
Anyway this post about ontd_ai and the resulting post about that post on ontd_ai and then the thread on fw about that post I think sum up the self conscious forced-ness that snark communities can fall prey to. (Well,
dot_gimp_snark seems pretty safe, but that's a different sort of snark)And no, I'm not doing the same thing. I'm doing quietly smug non-snarky moral-high-ground-taking, which is just as bad but different :D It's definitely as prone to self conscious "By deliberately not falling into this behaviour, am I thus being everything I despise? But by deliberately avoiding that..." recursive loops, rather like "Anyone who calls themselves a hipster isn't really a hipster"/"anyone who tries to be cool isn't cool" etc. I used to worry about this sort of thing a lot more then I decided to just accept that there was no way to avoid being a bit up myself and hypocritical.
(nb I would rather people didn't snark the snarking snarkers, I've reached my limit for the evening. If you like that sort of thing there's two perfectly good posts you can join in on :))
