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podklb ([personal profile] klb) wrote in [community profile] fanlore 2012-09-22 05:00 pm (UTC)

*nod* Right, and it has been changed back. And again, I don't disagree with anything you said? I just think there has been a lot of third-hand hearing about what happened and interpreting it as that there was a problem with fic information being included in a podfic post, and that's not, I think, the actual source for the concern. The source for the concern was that having a post about the podfic (without being clearly marked as such in a way that aethel's banner would do or in a way that having separate podfic and fic subsections on the page would) was viewed as a mistake that needed to be corrected by at least one reader. That indicates that there were probably a lot of other readers with that same sense of dissonance at reading the page in the way that it was. Without (podfic) in the title or a clarification that it was a podfic entry or a podfic subsection in an entry, it looked like the entry was somehow claiming that the podfic version of the fanwork was the only version, or the only version worth writing about, which looks to viewers like a mistake/oversight/stand that no one was actually taking. When there's more clarity that this is specifically an entry for the podfic version of a fanwork which is closely connected to the fic version of the fanwork (of the same name), then that view of the podfic focus of the page content as a mistake or oversight will be alleviated.

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