Also, linkspam began as, well, a series of links on a topic, with no description other than the post title. It was "if you are interested in keeping up with this discussion, here's the latest round of conversations." No editorial content besides the occasional, "woah, this one is *really* offensive, brace before reading" warning.
Switching to a metafandom-style interaction, with callout quotes and warnings and tags, changed its impact rather drastically. Stopping masterposts, where all the posts under a single topic were collected, changed its purpose--it no longer works as an archive of past __fails, because the posts for those topics are scattered and hard to find.
Linkspam has shifted from a roundup/archive resource to an editorial resource. That may, in the long run, be more useful, but it's certainly different.
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Date: 10 Mar 2010 04:51 pm (UTC)Also, linkspam began as, well, a series of links on a topic, with no description other than the post title. It was "if you are interested in keeping up with this discussion, here's the latest round of conversations." No editorial content besides the occasional, "woah, this one is *really* offensive, brace before reading" warning.
Switching to a metafandom-style interaction, with callout quotes and warnings and tags, changed its impact rather drastically. Stopping masterposts, where all the posts under a single topic were collected, changed its purpose--it no longer works as an archive of past __fails, because the posts for those topics are scattered and hard to find.
Linkspam has shifted from a roundup/archive resource to an editorial resource. That may, in the long run, be more useful, but it's certainly different.