People are so helpful! I opened this earlier and read it now and was all prepared to do all kinds of helpful answers or "yeah, I don't get that either", but then I refreshed and people have come along and explained things I needed explained as well! :)
I didn't understand what you meant by formats that wouldn't be able to be uploaded onto Photobucket, but I read your comments and I think now I do...
I keep up with my flist because I remain relatively invisible/unpopular and keep it small! I can go away for several days and come back and actually catch most of the relevant stuff I missed in a few hours.
I agree with the person who commented that it's weird that things like cat macros are called macros. Where does that come from? I'm not even a programmer but I took a course on Excel and kind of learned what a macro is in that context, and it doesn't translate into funny cat pictures...
What do you mean by "people not being able to post"? Like... they push submit and it won't submit, or like they're restraining themselves from posting things they want to post because of censorship?
Online videos is easy peasy... do you mean like realplayer/windows media/quicktime? Normally when you come across a page with those videos, they'll automatically redirect you to the download site... otherwise they're pretty easy to find on Google... they all have official sites.
I also didn't understand what you meant by not understanding betas, but I read your comments and yes! I mean, I feel like I've had some good betas in Buffy fandom over time that I can now count on, but when I dip my toes into new fandoms, I get so lost. For example I've written a few little fics for The Office, a fandom in which I know pretty much no one, and you go looking for betas and there are websites that have like a list of people that have in the past said they would be willing to beta, but do you just... pick one and email them? Based on their username alone and what minimal things they have to say in their profile? It's very bizarre and uncomfortable and I end up hemming and hawing and eventually either not posting at all or posting un-beta'ed, which is BAD.
I'm now going to read explanations in your comments that I may have missed on first skim-through, and I'm upset that flangst doesn't appear to be crossed off yet, because that word confuses me greatly!
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I didn't understand what you meant by formats that wouldn't be able to be uploaded onto Photobucket, but I read your comments and I think now I do...
I keep up with my flist because I remain relatively invisible/unpopular and keep it small! I can go away for several days and come back and actually catch most of the relevant stuff I missed in a few hours.
I agree with the person who commented that it's weird that things like cat macros are called macros. Where does that come from? I'm not even a programmer but I took a course on Excel and kind of learned what a macro is in that context, and it doesn't translate into funny cat pictures...
What do you mean by "people not being able to post"? Like... they push submit and it won't submit, or like they're restraining themselves from posting things they want to post because of censorship?
Online videos is easy peasy... do you mean like realplayer/windows media/quicktime? Normally when you come across a page with those videos, they'll automatically redirect you to the download site... otherwise they're pretty easy to find on Google... they all have official sites.
I also didn't understand what you meant by not understanding betas, but I read your comments and yes! I mean, I feel like I've had some good betas in Buffy fandom over time that I can now count on, but when I dip my toes into new fandoms, I get so lost. For example I've written a few little fics for The Office, a fandom in which I know pretty much no one, and you go looking for betas and there are websites that have like a list of people that have in the past said they would be willing to beta, but do you just... pick one and email them? Based on their username alone and what minimal things they have to say in their profile? It's very bizarre and uncomfortable and I end up hemming and hawing and eventually either not posting at all or posting un-beta'ed, which is BAD.
I'm now going to read explanations in your comments that I may have missed on first skim-through, and I'm upset that flangst doesn't appear to be crossed off yet, because that word confuses me greatly!