From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Kat Walsh
On 5/23/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
Nevertheless, Snowspinner got harassed by the fuzz and WR
didn't. If
you judge real life by whoever thinks up the coolest reply after thinking about it for a while, then you spend too much time
in front
of your computer.
Personally, I can take any amount of clever dick criticism
coming over
email or the web, but get a couple of policefolk sitting down at my kitchen table and hamfistedly investigating my life, and it's no longer fun.
Indeed, the grilled by the cops thing, not good, and you'd have a point if it ended there.
But for an English/media studies grad student and a writer, getting yourself and your work featured in the media as an example of that sort of ridiculous situation... not bad for exposure, no?
I think Phil wins this one.
I don't. The person who thinks there's no such thing as bad publicity hasn't been around long enough. IMHO the average reader will see Snowspinner as foolish to post such stuff on the interweb and the police just doing their job. This is the way that news reports on police-investigated internet fiction go, because that's a better story then the other way round. Everyone likes to see an egghead brought down, especially in Florida.