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What's it all about, flisters?
Lately the Scans Daily 2.0 mods have been getting these emails from businesses wanting to affiliate with us, or promote their products on the site. Invariably our response has been, "well, we don't really do that, but if you want to make an account and promote your stuff whilst posting some awesome scans? That's fine by us." This has been our response to creators looking to pimp their work, as well. Join the comm and pimp away, but the mod team doesn't promote books or products to the members.
I always knew the comm was well-known in wider comics fandom, but I didn't know just how well-known until the TOSing, and the explosion of blog posts and articles. And ok, that's great, as far as I'm concerned. I think SD is a great community, and I like seeing it get press (even bad press, because dudes, there really is no such thing as bad press)*, but it's strange being approached as though we were ourselves a business, or in any way connected to the comics industry. Is it simply that people are so used to the Newsarama or CBR models that a large, fan-run forum throws them for a loop? Or is that comics fandom is generally very welcoming to making close connections with publishers and merch sellers?
My fannish roots are in the fanworks-oriented part of fandom, and I'm used to my activities being threatening to the Powers That Be, even as they are useful in terms of sustaining interest in fandoms, after they've had their day in the sun. Scans Daily is similarly threatening and useful at once. All the interest in co-opting the comm for commercial purposes, isn't very different from sites like FanLib, I suppose, but at the end of the end, it just. Makes. Me. Twitchy.
What's it all about, flisters?
* Although there is such a thing as a bad endorsement. You know the ones. -_-
I always knew the comm was well-known in wider comics fandom, but I didn't know just how well-known until the TOSing, and the explosion of blog posts and articles. And ok, that's great, as far as I'm concerned. I think SD is a great community, and I like seeing it get press (even bad press, because dudes, there really is no such thing as bad press)*, but it's strange being approached as though we were ourselves a business, or in any way connected to the comics industry. Is it simply that people are so used to the Newsarama or CBR models that a large, fan-run forum throws them for a loop? Or is that comics fandom is generally very welcoming to making close connections with publishers and merch sellers?
My fannish roots are in the fanworks-oriented part of fandom, and I'm used to my activities being threatening to the Powers That Be, even as they are useful in terms of sustaining interest in fandoms, after they've had their day in the sun. Scans Daily is similarly threatening and useful at once. All the interest in co-opting the comm for commercial purposes, isn't very different from sites like FanLib, I suppose, but at the end of the end, it just. Makes. Me. Twitchy.
What's it all about, flisters?
* Although there is such a thing as a bad endorsement. You know the ones. -_-