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Dear [livejournal.com profile] automaticwriter:

Making me a member without my permission to build your fellowship up is poor form. Even more so is not listing the moderator on the bio page so that I can write in private to tell them.

Kindly do not do this in the future. Thanks.

Sincerely,
[livejournal.com profile] scottobear

update -

Date: 2002-10-22 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
I got the following reply from wiseblood, before my message was deleted in the community -

Sorry if that bothered you. The reason for it was that AW closed up and the previous maintainer deleted the community. Efforts to revive it and reconstruct the membership from archived copies of AW, some as much as a year old, have led to some inaccuracies. Don't take it personally.

That's missing the point on her side of it, but an apology is nice. The point is that communities "recruiting" people without asking them first is simply bad form. She *has* updated the community bio to include her name now, which is commendable... but then she posts this on the community -

"After making an offer that could not be refused, I have taken control of automaticwriter, and I will share responsibility over it with my posse.

I am hoping to give it focus, and strip away some of the more arbitrary rules. The community began as a kind of joke last year, but in its present form, it shall cease to be a joke, and we will attempt to see if the original ideas have validity.

I do not tolerate immaturity or arrogance, especially not male arrogance. Since I don't care whether total strangers like me or dislike me, I have no reservations about banning fools from the community. Everybody be civil toward each other, okay?

Oh, and another thing, this present form of the community is reconstructed from the ruins of the earlier form. The membership list was deleted, and I had to rebuild it from old archived versions of the profile page, and some printed screen shots. If you hate the community and got membered in against your will, it is for this reason. It's easy to quit, so don't come to me acting like an aggrieved victim. Accept it as an accident and go on your way."

I'm even more delighted that I left, now. It seems to me that she's very much the sexist and more than a little arrogant herself. I'm quite confident that the response was due to my initial comment... I didn't come like a victim, I removed myself after posting the above comment. No whining, wailing or bawling.

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