Need help

[scottishlass]

Someone from my flist mentioned fanhistory.com ... can that someone pls give me a run down of that site? The owner is making a lot of advertising in the Farscape fandom now and I want her to stop, but haven't bookmarked the entries with the issues of the whole thing.

Thank you.

Comments

[fivil.livejournal.com]

The main problems I remember reading were that
a) the girl who runs it deletes stuff at will, even when people have been trying to edit their RL names off articles which portray their fannish activities (not everybody wants their boss knowing they write Harry Potter fanfic)
b) generally a lot of info seems to be wrong and people have even been known to get BANNED for trying to correct it
c) the makers get profits from google ads and it's not seen as very cool to profit off false information and "outing" somebody's rl identity in fandom circles
and d) the author is apparently using the info submitted for her academic works without explicitly stating it.

Here's a comment I found pretty useful: http://cesperanza.livejournal.com/157657.html?thread=3843801#t3843801

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!!!

That was what I was looking for. This person is trawling the Farscape fandom heavily, esp. NC17 writers. I already had my info removed. As a rl editor I can't have my stuff I write as a hobby without the editor's scissors inside my head displayed for my boss to see. :s