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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.
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.
ReplyDeleteNow 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.
ReplyDeleteThere are two new sites up that fill hopefully fill the void:
ReplyDeleteDZ 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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