I think this is because there has been a lot of bonding done through the cup and people are being protective of others they see as younger or newer and possibly open to being hurt.
I think that this is all motivated by kindness at the base, Yeah, I think so too. The problem I'm having is that the comeback has often sounded very critical of the authors whose work has been criticised. I have this image of a soccer game where a player is accidentally tripped, her teammates say "Hey! Watch what you're doing!" to the tripper, and other players turn to the trippee and say, "If you can't handle this game, get off the field!"
Um... all the trippee did was get tripped. And all her teammates did was tell someone else to be more careful. Nobody called the ref to get the tripper kicked out. So whaddup with the hostility to the trippee and her teammates?
OTOH, I think I mentioned on pir8fancier's lj that perhaps the reason I'm puzzled about this is that I just haven't read the right ljs - the ones where people are complaining about readers being too hard on them. In which case, pls to ignore all I said above. I live in ignorance, and in this situation, ignorance is indeed bliss ;)
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Date: 2008-04-09 04:43 am (UTC)I think that this is all motivated by kindness at the base,
Yeah, I think so too. The problem I'm having is that the comeback has often sounded very critical of the authors whose work has been criticised. I have this image of a soccer game where a player is accidentally tripped, her teammates say "Hey! Watch what you're doing!" to the tripper, and other players turn to the trippee and say, "If you can't handle this game, get off the field!"
Um... all the trippee did was get tripped. And all her teammates did was tell someone else to be more careful. Nobody called the ref to get the tripper kicked out. So whaddup with the hostility to the trippee and her teammates?
OTOH, I think I mentioned on