What else? We can educate the Nifflers better this time, reminding them that while we don't dictate their fic choices, they should avoid authors who have already been niffled, and that they should try to branch out more from their own preferred reading in order to test new markets.
Speaking as a former Niffler who was terrible at her job, I would say that this is a good idea. No doubt some people would be terribly offended and it won't weed out all the possible 'problems', but nevertheless, I'm sure there are some Nifflers out there who simply did not understand. I know because I was one of them.
About the closing of Niffler threads after they are posted, I have a (tedious) suggestion as to how it could be done. I've already replied to Heidi's comment about it, but since LJ is being buggy, I'm not sure whether she will get it. You could contact the people who originally posted the Niffles and get them to repost them. That then leaves you free to delete the posts with comments after them. Tedious, but hey, it's specialisation. ;)
We can also monitor how Nifflers do.
This is probably a really bad suggestion, but you could get mods especially for monitoring the Nifflers.
Again, do you think that we deliberately set out to "make everyone happy - except you?"
Don't worry about it. No site can make everybody happy and the mods will go crazy if they try. I think people should just take a deep calming breath and remember that on the grand scheme of things, seeing an author niffled a few times is not a huge catastrophe.
Where do you think FA is unreasonably "correct" toward minority groups, both in and outside the fandom? Or is there some other definition of PC you would employ? Is there some other area where we're deficient? Tell me. Where have we been truly unjust?
Personally I believe that FA is doing very well and I'm not sure what some people are complaining about. Yes, there may be some small glitches at times, but we cannot reasonably expect there to be none. I, for one, can see that the FA mods, uploaders, coders, admin, etc, all work very hard, and I appreciate it greatly. I can't see how we can expect any more, because you aren't the slaves of the users. If FA was a company, I might have complaints, but it isn't and I really don't see how we can treat it as one. The people who run FA do have lives of their own. I honestly don't know how you guys do it, but I do applaud you for it.
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already been niffled, and that they should try to branch out more from their own preferred reading in order to test new markets.
Speaking as a former Niffler who was terrible at her job, I would say that this is a good idea. No doubt some people would be terribly offended and it won't weed out all the possible 'problems', but nevertheless, I'm sure there are some Nifflers out there who simply did not understand. I know because I was one of them.
About the closing of Niffler threads after they are posted, I have a (tedious) suggestion as to how it could be done. I've already replied to Heidi's comment about it, but since LJ is being buggy, I'm not sure whether she will get it. You could contact the people who originally posted the Niffles and get them to repost them. That then leaves you free to delete the posts with comments after them. Tedious, but hey, it's specialisation. ;)
We can also monitor how Nifflers do.
This is probably a really bad suggestion, but you could get mods especially for monitoring the Nifflers.
Again, do you think that we deliberately set out to "make everyone happy - except you?"
Don't worry about it. No site can make everybody happy and the mods will go crazy if they try. I think people should just take a deep calming breath and remember that on the grand scheme of things, seeing an author niffled a few times is not a huge catastrophe.
Where do you think FA is unreasonably "correct" toward minority groups, both in and outside the fandom? Or is there some other definition of PC you would employ? Is there some other area where we're deficient? Tell me. Where have we been truly unjust?
Personally I believe that FA is doing very well and I'm not sure what some people are complaining about. Yes, there may be some small glitches at times, but we cannot reasonably expect there to be none. I, for one, can see that the FA mods, uploaders, coders, admin, etc, all work very hard, and I appreciate it greatly. I can't see how we can expect any more, because you aren't the slaves of the users. If FA was a company, I might have complaints, but it isn't and I really don't see how we can treat it as one. The people who run FA do have lives of their own. I honestly don't know how you guys do it, but I do applaud you for it.