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Nora Volkova · Enthusiastic Fan Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 332

The Mods at Anchor Cove -- which is, remember, however popular it was in its day, still a private, unofficial fansite of lonelygirl15 -- were in solid consensus on their opinion that the use of a such an explicit, personal, and still recent crimescene photo for a game clue was inexcusably tasteless. "Barely visible in the video" does not mitigate against using the photo, because *very clearly* the video's creators intended a close reading of the video and intended for the photo to be recognized for what it was. It was not accidental. They also felt that positioning a clue which referred to the brutal murder of children *on a playground* also broke the barriers of acceptable behavior -- especially taken under the consideration that ciw had clearly already been gamejacked once and was wide open for any random individual from the internet to exploit the game for whatever purposes they wanted.

As far as I am aware, all of the moderators still hold to this opinion, and it was well within the rights of the moderators of a private fansite to declare what was and was not on-topic for that board based on their collective judgment. Considering the propensity for some of the more headstrong fans of this forum to *openly defy* the *openly stated* wishes of the board's owners, I doubt that Anchor Cove will be regretting its decision any time soon. Anchor Cove does not perceive itself as being in competition with the Phorum for postcount, especially as the two sites share several Moderators and one of the Phorum's Site Admins. If AC remains an intimate and friendly site, lo, even until the death of lg15 fandom, nobody there will regret that condition.

Now. That said -- these are my personal thoughts:

Clearly, in hindsight, Anchor Cove appears to have been too strident, even tactless in how their decision was announced. Although the decision was mostly sourced in their collective distaste for the actions of the ciw team in making the second video, the announcement regrettably overemphasized safety issues and created far too paternalistic a tone. At least some of the confusion and tensions within the ciw fan community can sensibly and correctly be laid at AC's misstep in this regard.
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jammer · Casual Observer Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 86

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Nora Volkova · Enthusiastic Fan Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 332

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brandoblues · Enthusiastic Fan Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 268

we need some fun puzzles at least to keep us busy.

by now i have found tons of puzzles that need to be sovled all over the boards.

on that relates to the youtube fascination is that etchings drop.

granted it has nothing to do with lg/ciw besides the point of the youtube connection, but hey its a puzzle. sad thing is no one wants to try to figure it out.

in the meantime it wouldnt hurt if we used other parts of this forum to crack cases in would it? cassie isnt showing up till in the morning and i wanna finish that dang etching's picture at least.

good thing about it, is its like an educational tool, dont look for the answer, try to find as many things about it you can yourself.

bleh im rambling, anyone know anything about heart icons and maybe company logos or something?

juliangrimm · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject:

I'm at a loss to the troll references in the title when other trolling behaviour like open insults to the new people and open insults to those that leave other theories open are thrown around by many here... Rolling Eyes

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Charlotte Eve · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject:

haha good response;

sweeping comments like that will only bring responses like "All religions are cults then" so brush up first.
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jammer · Casual Observer Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 86

Man, covedweller, you sure do spend a lot of time here (and write a LOT of words) for someone who thinks CiW is "the saddest form of fiction."

If you're right that CiW in not from the creators (and I think think you're wrong about that), then why are you so interested in it?

I mean, I think CiW is great. That's why I'm here, and why I spend time trying to make the CiW world a little easier to navigate.

Why are you here?

I don't mean to imply anything by this question. I honestly don't understand why someone would come here, get so worked up and write hundreds of words merely to denigrate CiW as "fan fiction" and "the saddest form of fiction." What's the point?
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