Impermanence
Apr. 10th, 2009 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aearwen2The saying goes "The only thing that never changes is that everything changes." And so it goes in the online world as well.
Last night, I withdrew my membership at the Garden of Ithilien Writers' Workshop over my disagreement with the way the admin there handled an issue. I won't go into the blow-by-blows, but the upshot of it is that I walked away from a group with whom I have felt more online kinship than I've enjoyed in a long time.
Standing up for principles hurts, folks. It's necessary, but it hurts like hell.
Last night, I withdrew my membership at the Garden of Ithilien Writers' Workshop over my disagreement with the way the admin there handled an issue. I won't go into the blow-by-blows, but the upshot of it is that I walked away from a group with whom I have felt more online kinship than I've enjoyed in a long time.
Standing up for principles hurts, folks. It's necessary, but it hurts like hell.
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Date: 2009-04-23 06:15 pm (UTC)Jael? Tactful? Hah! *snort*