And the lulz just keep on comin'
Jul. 15th, 2008 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megwritesSandergate continues on, with Sanders now making authors pay for the privilege of having their stories removed from the archives. He wants $40 per story removal, which he says is the hourly fee of his web person.
Who's being pantiwadulous now, Mr. Sanders?
This has got to be some kind of extortion or something. Blackmail. There's no way it's entirely legal for him to do this. I really hope somebody with legal know-how gets him and sues his racist little pants off.
However, being the sneaky minded little person I am, I think we could turn his own terms against him. Because, in his little tirade (linked on Tobias' site), he says that he won't charge those people who need the story removed because of "professional reasons", such as wanting to put it in anthology or collection that wants exclusive rights or something.
What if we used that against him? What if we got together, collectively, to publish a collection of stories that were pulled, in protest, from the Helix archives? And of course, we'd require the stories not to be on the Helix archives for "professional reasons".
I think it would solve a lot of problems. It would turn Sanders' own extortion against him. First, it would be a big incentive for any writers still sitting on the fence to pull their stories. It would help those who want to protest but don't have the money, and they'd have a legitimate publishing credit to replace the one they lost. *And* it would be a pretty big show of our resolve not to put up with this kind of idiocy.
An entire collection of stories, all dedicated to the cause of showing that we will not put up with blatant, hateful racism in our community. I like it.
Who's being pantiwadulous now, Mr. Sanders?
This has got to be some kind of extortion or something. Blackmail. There's no way it's entirely legal for him to do this. I really hope somebody with legal know-how gets him and sues his racist little pants off.
However, being the sneaky minded little person I am, I think we could turn his own terms against him. Because, in his little tirade (linked on Tobias' site), he says that he won't charge those people who need the story removed because of "professional reasons", such as wanting to put it in anthology or collection that wants exclusive rights or something.
What if we used that against him? What if we got together, collectively, to publish a collection of stories that were pulled, in protest, from the Helix archives? And of course, we'd require the stories not to be on the Helix archives for "professional reasons".
I think it would solve a lot of problems. It would turn Sanders' own extortion against him. First, it would be a big incentive for any writers still sitting on the fence to pull their stories. It would help those who want to protest but don't have the money, and they'd have a legitimate publishing credit to replace the one they lost. *And* it would be a pretty big show of our resolve not to put up with this kind of idiocy.
An entire collection of stories, all dedicated to the cause of showing that we will not put up with blatant, hateful racism in our community. I like it.
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Date: 2008-07-17 12:21 am (UTC)