Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Dead, Doornail, Dying Dead
(... alluding to the late, great Gene Saks in “A Thousand Clowns.”)
Has anyone used the Usenet newsgroup alt.tv.daria for genuine discussion in the last nine months? It’s filled solely with porn-site and bootleg-disc spam these days. We may remove the link, to avoid misdirecting fandom newcomers ... assuming we keep gettin’ ’em {sigh}
And let’s be honest, shall we? The Sh33p’s Fluff Message Board is effectively dead. (For anything but Dariarotica, and not much of that.) No real discussions are taking place. Out of the latest 200 “members,” I counted only one account that wasn’t a porn-site spammer. Flame Wars has become worthless-er ... yeah, Trent, it’s still in the “worthless” set ... as it turns into a spam sponge.
The only ongoing non-PPMB-posted, non-erotic fanwork I can find is “Legion of Lawndale Heroes,” and Roentgen is slowly getting that tale re-posted at FF.net.
It’s disheartening to see these venues losing focus and activity, but it’s been five years since Daria ended with “Is It College Yet?”, and broad net.nets will inevitably catch fewer new fans.
Labels: Fandom
# posted by Greybird @ 6:13 AM 
