From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Kat Walsh
On 5/23/06, Peter Mackay <peter.mackay(a)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.