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So metafandom recently has had lots of discussion about the recent lack of meta (in general and on metafandom specifically) Which is kind of an amusing negative feedback loop but hey.

Anyway, various people floated the idea of a more inclusive dw specific (fanfic) fandom meta community. Another suggestion was a "latest posts with a meta tag" feed, which inspired me to put "meta" into the search engine.

I found many of the same posts I'd just read, some fic, and...fandomnews

"Awesome!" thinks I. "And it's just been started, presumably inspired by these discussions. I wonder if it's skuf or one of those other people who was talking about it? Is it very popular yet?"

But as it turns out, the creator, and thus far only member..is purplepopple aka Laura Hale.

This will end well.

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Who's the metamob?

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

The mob of metafandom readers who dogpile anyone they disapprove of. The exact constituents probably vary slightly from case to case (though you will see the usual suspects appearing with regularity) but the general effect is always the same. They are the reason most people I know won't touch metafandom with a barge pole. (And I must say my own life is much pleasanter now I have stopped reading it.)