I feel weird and sometimes disingenuous not mentioning where I got my inspiration, which is why I had trouble with Zvi's argument, though I can see where she and other people are coming from with it. (I think with me it comes from doing a Phd :))
During a fandom imbroglio last year I made a post inspired by it but not about it and didn't say so, and half the commenters treated it as a continuation of the imbroglio and the other half couldn't figure out what everyone else was talking about. I think if I'd said "this is inspired by BUT NOT ABOUT *blah* that might have made things better.
Why not discuss it in a locked or even private post with a bunch of disclaimers? That's what I do with this stuff (that's what I did with the first draft of this post, and I regret even posting bits of it as a comment before I'd figured out what I was thinking more)
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I feel weird and sometimes disingenuous not mentioning where I got my inspiration, which is why I had trouble with Zvi's argument, though I can see where she and other people are coming from with it. (I think with me it comes from doing a Phd :))
During a fandom imbroglio last year I made a post inspired by it but not about it and didn't say so, and half the commenters treated it as a continuation of the imbroglio and the other half couldn't figure out what everyone else was talking about. I think if I'd said "this is inspired by BUT NOT ABOUT *blah* that might have made things better.
Why not discuss it in a locked or even private post with a bunch of disclaimers? That's what I do with this stuff (that's what I did with the first draft of this post, and I regret even posting bits of it as a comment before I'd figured out what I was thinking more)