An Open Letter to the IYFG

[luxken27]

If you are a member of the IYFG, I would like to direct your attention to this message, posted by Far Away Eyes (farawayeyes4).

I know some of you are members who either don't receive mail from the Guild, or just delete it all when the wankwars start, but I feel this is worthy of having as many eyes see it as possible, whether you agree with her stance or not.

Comments

[langus-fiction.livejournal.com]

To be frank, I couldn't agree with her more. I've thought the same for about a year now and have stopped reading the wankfests completely. Her suggestion for removing the QC and CC sounds like a very good idea and would likely save a lot of headaches down the road. Leave it up to the membership to choose the fics we think are worthy of being placed on the ballot. If we complain about it later we've already made our bed and can just lay in it.

[luxken27]

I'd encourage you to shoot a reply through the list. It's been interesting to see the response so far - it seems most of the "silent majority" membership (people like yourself, who don't even bother with the wank) is quite firmly behind her ideas, whereas the dissent is coming from people who sit on the committees to be eliminated.

The more voices that are heard, no matter what the opinion, the harder it will be for TPTB to ignore.

It has been most intriguing to watch this develop.

[psyco_chick32]

I would recommend you speak up, too. I just got an email from Caitriona (in response to my comment that it's mainly only the CC/QC members that don't agree) saying that the argument was invalid because "it's pretty much only people who don't write or participate in the group" that agree with FarAwayEyes.

[langus-fiction.livejournal.com]

Done and done.

[psyco_chick32]

Thank ya kindly! Every little bit helps :)

[caitriona695.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Hold on a minute here.

I wrote you and said that I thought it was interesting that the main people who had come on and said amen were the people who hadn't written anything on the group or participated in nominations. I never said that 'non-writers' and 'non-participants' were the only ones that agreed with FAE. I also never said that it made the argument invalid. Hell, In my response back to her I in as much as said that there were some of her points that I agreed with.

I don't mind that you "quote" me. I mind that you quote me out of context when I specifically said I wasn't trying to start wank.

[psyco_chick32]

You're right - that was worded improperly, sorry, writing a few hours after taking my new meds is taking a toll on me - I have learned better.

(and actually, I mis-read the comment about "nominations" wholeheartedly. I thought you meant "not been nominated" rather than "not made nominations".)

(never have epilepsy. The meds they put you on mess with your brain worse than the disease itself.)

[caitriona695.livejournal.com]

:Hugs:

New meds=bad until they become old meds.

Thanks for correcting that. I appreciate it.

[psyco_chick32]

I think I may have started a little wank since the flamewars simply need matches in the near vicinity to start up) but obviously some people weren't getting the message, and I felt it needed an illustration.

[luxken27]

I LOL'ed when I saw your response.

[minerva-one.livejournal.com]

Ah... the shit will hit the fan now, I had to go speak my mind, lol.

I second the 'AMEN.'

Simple is always best, and I have to agree that the massive amounts of rules, regulations, by-laws, constant polls, incessant arguing, etc. are strangling the life out of the community.

I only learned of this thread from LuxKen posting on her LJ, since any daily digest from IYFG (when nominations or voting posts are not up) gets the automatic 'delete' treatment. I have neither the time or interest in keeping up with the convoluted knot this has become.

As Wiccan also stated, I hesitate to even nom works now, since I have to trudge through the category definitions every quarter and then go trudge through the rules and then finally begin the long process of actually getting a piece through nominations. I only nominate when I run across a story I truly feel deserves the work it entails.

I don't *want* to vote in constant polls over everything. I don't *want* to break out my statistics book in order to understand the voting policy.

I want simple - nominate, second, and vote. That's it. The cream of the crop for fics will rise to the top, and anything else earns its place.

So, count me as part of the 'silent majority' who is finally saying 'enough already.'

Minerva_one

Thanks for letting me know this was up, I would have missed it otherwise. ;)

[luxken27]

Yes, I just saw that, and was o.O when you mentioned you only saw the link here! Wow, glad to be of service, and thanks for speaking your mind!