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Monday, January 15, 2007
Flashing In The Gutters gone
I haven't seen anyone post about Flashing In The Gutters having gone and been shut down. Man, that's huge. I would've hoped he'd've at least saved the archives, there was lot of excellent stuff there.
We all mourn the loss of it. Tribe took it down after a long and nasty series of comments between various FITG writers and a commentator who accused the site of being an outlet for hacks. It turned out this peron was waging a secret war against one contributer in particular, but Tribe just didn't want to be a party to this sort of nastiness. And maybe he thought it had run its course. It hadn't though. It was a great, great place to read flash.
Now I see. I remember the fight starting and was wondering what was so wrong about the particular story, but due to lack of time (and sometimes not remembering) I hadn't checked the site for some time now. Stupid, really stupid.
Thanks for the links. I checked your site when Bill Crider posted about it, but there were no stories at the time. The lineup seem pretty good. Christa Faust's story is tough.
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We all mourn the loss of it. Tribe took it down after a long and nasty series of comments between various FITG writers and a commentator who accused the site of being an outlet for hacks. It turned out this peron was waging a secret war against one contributer in particular, but Tribe just didn't want to be a party to this sort of nastiness. And maybe he thought it had run its course. It hadn't though. It was a great, great place to read flash.
Now I see. I remember the fight starting and was wondering what was so wrong about the particular story, but due to lack of time (and sometimes not remembering) I hadn't checked the site for some time now. Stupid, really stupid.
There are two new sites up that fill hopefully fill the void:
DZ Allen's excellent Muzzle Flash
http://www.dzallen.blogspot.com/
and my own Powder Burn Flash
http://powderburnflash.blogspot.com
Hopefully these two sites will attract the same quality writers that FITG did.
Aldo
Thanks for the links. I checked your site when Bill Crider posted about it, but there were no stories at the time. The lineup seem pretty good. Christa Faust's story is tough.
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