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Pintsize and Winslow Toys
Tergon:
--- Quote from: FuseUnison on 30 Mar 2011, 05:43 ---Isn't the mentality of a fan forum supposed to be, "Hey! We really like your stuff, you're great!!! Long live QC!", and not, "Hey! We're a bunch of tools, and we think you're crap! Suck it!!!"
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That's basically exactly what happened. People got obsessive about how they felt the story should turn out and what was the "obvious" thing that had to happen to the plotline. When Jeph didn't deliver on their (almost universally trite, boring, cliche'd and completely against the grain of the characters) suggestions, some clever folks decided that meant he was a shitty writer. Hell, there's still the occasional poster who pops up only to say that they hate [character] or list reasons why Jeph sucks.
Of course that's only half the story. Aside from the haters, what Jeph despises more than anything is people shipping his characters and making sexual innuendo about them. People would make long, rambling, poorly-spelled posts about why their favourite characters should totally have hot sex (generally this meant that they wanted to see Hannelore have sex with someone). It got ridiculous, to the point where even making jokes about it disgusted him (a crime I was guilty of as much as anyone) and now it's completely unallowed. Use of portmaneu names like Darten is a good way to get a mod warning in pretty much any post.
Added to that are the general trollings and flamewars and bullshit you get on any forum filled with geeky fans and... well, welcome to QC. Jeph's commented more than once that he acknowledges that the forum has to exist somewhere on the internet, and it might as well be here in a place where he has some editorial and administrative power to cut out the worst of it. But he basically hates the QC Discussion Forum and everything about it.
Honestly, with all that, you can't blame him.
FuseUnison:
Ahh.....ok, yeah I can see where that kind of activity could put a bad taste in your mouth.
I've always made it a personal rule that you should keep your negative opinions of a creative work to yourself. What many people don't understand is that when an artistic person, regardless of medium, creates something that thing is VERY personal too them. Being a musician, I know that when you create something, you put the very best of yourself into it. When that work is unfairly criticized it can become very insulting over time because they're not just being critical of your work, they're being critical of what you consider to be the best part of yourself.
Kinda sucks all that happened here. It's not very often that a fan forum actually has direct involvement and interaction with the creator of it's subject matter. Kinda sad (that at least for now) that relationship between fans and creator has been damaged to such a degree. =(
pwhodges:
Read the sticky thread "Conduct in this forum" at the top of this subforum to get more of a feel for things. There are even a couple of messages from Jeph in there (at the end).
akronnick:
Not to say that the suggestion of plush toys based on QC characters is a bad idea, in fact if I'm not mistaken Yelling Bird toys are available in the QC Store at Topatoco, but Jeph is unlikely to make such decisions based on suggestions made here.
FuseUnison:
Sorry.... :-(
If I over-stepped my bounds, I apologize. I guess, if I am indeed in bad form, a mod should shut this one down. I wasn't trying to tell Jeph what he should do. I just thought that a friendly idea might just be better received by Jeph if a poll with favorable numbers supported said idea.
My bad I guess.
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