As I said upthread, it's not what he's saying, it's how he's saying it.
Mallozzi seems to delight in taking every opportunity to take personal cracks at fans, even to the point of naming names in his blog recently, which I thought was very crass.
I've never, in my over a decade of being in online fandom, seen a member of TPTB repeatedly and purposely aggravate fans like Mallozzi does. Some have accidentally opened mouth and inserted foot (sometimes both feet and gone up to their knees), but they learn from it. Mallozzi doesn't, he seems to think it's the fault of the fans for not seeing him for the paragon of writers he thinks he is.
The more fans complain about his attitude, the more he complains about fans. It's a vicious cycle, and one played out several times before, sometimes ending with Mallozzi mysteriously going offline for a while, apparently muzzled by someone with more pull than he has. But now that he's a showrunner, there's very few who can put a muzzle on him.
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Date: 2007-03-03 12:54 am (UTC)Mallozzi seems to delight in taking every opportunity to take personal cracks at fans, even to the point of naming names in his blog recently, which I thought was very crass.
I've never, in my over a decade of being in online fandom, seen a member of TPTB repeatedly and purposely aggravate fans like Mallozzi does. Some have accidentally opened mouth and inserted foot (sometimes both feet and gone up to their knees), but they learn from it. Mallozzi doesn't, he seems to think it's the fault of the fans for not seeing him for the paragon of writers he thinks he is.
The more fans complain about his attitude, the more he complains about fans. It's a vicious cycle, and one played out several times before, sometimes ending with Mallozzi mysteriously going offline for a while, apparently muzzled by someone with more pull than he has. But now that he's a showrunner, there's very few who can put a muzzle on him.